248 Ch'ên Ta-shou 陳大受 (T. 占咸. H. 可齋). A.D. 1701–1751. A successful official, who graduated as chin shih in 1733. Early distinguished for erudition, he won the first place at the special examination of Han-lin graduates held by the Emperor Ch'ien Lung in 1737. In 1748 he was a Minister of the Grand Council, and earned the Emperor's high approval by his diligence in dealing with the vast mass of correspondence during the war in Chin-ch'uan. He was subsequently Viceroy at Canton. Canonised as 文肅, and included in the Temple of Worthies.
249 Ch'ên-t'ai 陳泰. Died A.D. 1655. A grandson of O-yi-tu, who shared in the conquest of China. Appointed Pacificator of the South in 1647, he soon reduced Fuhkien to order and repelled the attacks of the pirate 鄭彩 Chêng Ts'ai. After being degraded in 1651, in 1655 he was restored to his rank of Grand Secretary and sent to suppress a rising of Chang Hsien-chung's successors in Hu-Kuang. He died soon after his success had gained him the title of Viscount. Canonised as 忠襄.
250 Ch'ên T'ao 陳陶. 9th and 10th cent. A.D. A poet and astronomer of the T'ang dynasty. Unable to brook the rule of the Later T'angs, he retired to the hills, and lived in retirement with his wife, who was also a scholar, and grew oranges for a livelihood. "It is not," said he in one of his political poems, "that the phoenix and the ch'i lin visit the Middle Kingdom no more, but that they are all caught in the nets of the Imperial family." A neighbouring official once sent a waiting-maid to try his chastity, but he was proof against all her arts. He called himself 三教布衣.
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Ch'ên Ti 陳第 (T. 季立). 16th cent. A.D. A native of 連江 Lien-chiang in Fuhkien, who served as a military official beyond the Great Wall to the north of Peking, but who is chiefly known as a writer on linguistic subjects. Author of 屈宋