families were also put to death. He is ranked as one of the Three Heroes (see Chang Liang).
618 Han Hsiu . 8th cent. A.D. A statesman who joined Chang Ghia-ling in his remonstrances addressed to the Emperor Ming Haang of the T'ang dynasty. His Majesty is said to have lost flesh in consequence; bat when his courtiers suggested that the Ministers were to blame, he replied, "Though I may be thin, the empire is fat." He was a Minister of State in 788, and died about 740, aged 67. Canonised as ^j^.
619 Han Hung (T. ^^). 8th cent. A.D. A natire of Nan-yang in Honan, who graduated as chin shih about A.D. 750 and distinguished himself as a poet and official under the T'ang dynasty, earning the sobriquet of ^ ^ >J* -^ Genius of the Ta-li period, A.D. 766—780. There happened to be another official of the same name; and when this one was recommended for promotion, the Emperor Td Tsung asked which of the two was intendeds "It is Han Hung, the poet," replied the Minister on duty. See Chang-t^ai Liu,
620 Han Lin-êrh . Died A.D. 1867. A natiye of ^ ^ 620 ChSn-ting in Chihli, whose father was executed for connection with the White Lily Society, while he himself escaped to Ying- chou in Anhui, and sought refuge with ^ ^ ^ Liu Fu-t'ung, a notorious wizard of that place. In 1351 Liu broke into open rebellion, a red kerchief being the distinguishing mark of his followers who soon numbered over 100,000. In 1855 Liu set up Han Lin-toh as >J> 59 ^ > with Po-chou in Anhui as the capital of a new Sung dynasty, which wad recognised by Chu Yilan-chang and by Kuo Tztl-hsing's son. The new ruler had soon to flee to ^ ^ An-fSng in Anhui, where he remained until Liu captured Pien-liang (the modern K'ai-ffing Fu) in 1858. A
year later he was forced to return to An-f§ng, where he was