which are marked by depth of research and aecaracy of jadgment. He also distiDgnished himself by his aititade towards the ^ '^ , which had previously been attributed to Tang Hsiung, striying to show that it could not possibly have come from the pen of that writer.
895 Hung Tsun (T. ). A.D. 1120-1174. Second son of Hung Hao, and one of the "Three Hungs" (see Hung Kua). He graduated in 1142, and served at intervals on the Privy Council for many years. Author of the ^J^, the earliest extant work on coinage, with plates and descriptions of coins from remote times to the middle of the tenth century, including legitimate currency, coins of usurpers, foreign coins, and medals. Canonised as ^ ^.
Hung Wu. See Chu Yüan-chang.
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896 I Chih Son of I Tin,, to whose office and dignities he succeeded. When a mulberry-tree grew up suddenly in the court- yard of the palace, I Chih warned the Emperor ^ jj^ T'ai Mou, B.C. 1637 — 1562, that this omen signified a lack of virtue in the administration. T^ai Mou thereupon set to work to perform more diligently the duties of a sovereign, and in three days the mulberry- tree died.
897 I Ching . A.D. 635-713. A native of Fan-yang in Chihli, whose surname was ^ (T. ^ i^ ). He had barely shed his milk- teeth ere he decided to give up his family and become a Buddhist priest. At fifteen he longed to emulate the deeds of Fa Hsien and Hsiian Cbuang, but it was not until he was thirty-seven that he could realise the dream of his life. He spent the interval in close study, devoting five years to the Vinaya. At length, in 671, he set out for India, breaking his journey at Palembang in Sumatra, where he spent six months studying Sanscrit. Thence he sailed to
