prisoner. 6. By means of movable puppets, — said to have been the
origin of Punch and Judy, — one of which represented a
beantifal girl, he induced the Hun chieftain who was besieging
Liu Pang in 白登 Po-têng to allow the latter to escape; for
which he was made Marquis of 曲逆 Ch'ü-ni (sometimes read
Ch'ü4-yü4). He became sole Minister in 179, and is ranked as one
of the Three Heroes (see Chang Liang).
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Ch'ên Po-tsung 陳伯宗 (T. 奉業). A.D. 550-568. Son
of Ch'ên Ch'ien, whom he succeeded in 566 as third sovereign of
the Ch'ên dynasty. He was a weak youth, and was deposed after
little more than a year by his uncle, to whom his father had
offered the succession. Known in history as 廢帝 or 臨海王.
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Ch'ên Shêng 陳勝 (T. 涉). Died B.C. 209. A ploughman of the Ch'in State. One day he stood still in the furrows and said to
his fellow-labourers, "When I am rich and powerful, I will not forget you." "How is a ploughman going to get rich and powerful?"
asked his companions, mockingly. "Ah," replied Ch'ên, "what can
swallows and sparrows know of the aims of the snow-goose or the
wild swan?" Entering upon a military career, he rose to a rank
of some importance; but revolted, together with 吳廣 Wu
Kuang, because being prevented by flood from reaching a certain
place by a certain date, he was liable under the prevailing law to execution. He seized 蘄 Ch'i in modern Anhui, and established himself at
Ch'ên in Honan. The people rose on all sides against the Ch'in
officials, and he soon had a large following. His armies however
were unsuccessful, and he was driven out of Ch'in by 章邯 Chang Han at the head of a body of enfranchised slaves,
whereupon he took to flight, but was slain by his charioteer. He
refused to allow himself to be styled Prince of Ch'u, but he is
often referred to as Prince of Ch'ên. He was posthumously known
as 隱王.
