Censors with promotions haying failed, he set to work, aided by a eunuch, to persecute them. In 1492, having lost the Emperor*8 favour, he was ordered^ to retire. His impassive endurance of attacks earned him the sobriquet of fj^ {^ ^ ^^Cotton-wool Liu." He proposed that only three attempts to obtain the cM jen degree should be allowed. Canonised as ^ i^ .
1284
Liu Ch'i ^^. Died B.C. 140. Son of Liu H6ng, whom he
succeeded in B.C. 156 as fifth sovereign of the Han dynasty.
Throughout the reign the Hsiung-nu were constantly giving trouble,
making treaties of peace only to break them. In 152 an Imperial
Princess was sent as wife to their Khan. Canonised as
1285
Iiiu Clii-3rtian ^ |g tC • I>ied A.D. 991. Son of a daughter
of Liu Min, by a man named ^ Ho, and adopted son of Liu
Ch^Sng-chtln , who had also adopted and named as his successor
another son of the same lady by a former husband named |^
Hsieh. The rightful Heir Apparent, known as :^ |^ J^ Liu
Chi-Sn, was murdered after a graud banquet which he had just
given to the grandees of the Court, and Liu Chi-yflan was raised
to the throne. In 979 he submitted to the House of Sung, and
received the title of ^ ^ '^ •
1286
IduCMen ^^ (T. ^ ^). A.D. 1434-.1527. A pupil of
Hsieb Hstlan, who graduated as chin ahih in 1460 and rose in 1491
to be President of the Board of Rites. In 1498 he succeeded Hsfl
P^u as Prime Minister, and laboured to check abuses and to rouse
the Emperor to a sense of his duty by dwelling on the military
weakness of the country. On the completion of the Institutes of
the Ming Dynasty he became President of the Board of Civil Office;
and at last in 1504 the Emperor, fireed from the superstitious
Dowagers, set about reforming the administration. On his death-
