1299 Liu Hsi-hung ^ J^T^. A cha jen of Enangtung, who was a second-class secretary in the Board of Punishments when he was appointed Assistant to Euo Snng-tao on the first mission to England in 1876. A year later he was transferred to Germany, and he returned to China in 1879. Was degraded in 1881 for denoandng Li Hnog-chang.
Liu Hsla-lmi. See Chan Huo.
1300 Lin Hsiang fO |n| (T. -^^ i^ and ^P^). B.C. 80-9. A descendant of Liu Pang, the founder of the Han dynasty. Entering the public service at an early age, he brought himself to the notice of the Emperor Hsflan^ Ti by submitting some secret works on magic, to which art his Majesty was much deyoted. The results, however, not proving successful, he was cast into prison, from which he was released with a view to the publication of the famous commentary on the Spring and Autumn AnnaU by Eu-liang Ch4h. Restored to office as a Supervising Censor, he rose under the Emperor Ytlan Ti to be a Minister of State; but about B.C. 40 he fell a victim to a political intrigue, and was cashiered. Upon the accession of the Emperor Ch^i§ng Ti in B.C. 32 he was once more re-instated, and now changed his personal name from i^ ESng-shSng to Hsiang, as above. As an author, he revised and re-arranged the |^ H ^ « ^ collection of historical episodes of the feudal times under the Chou dynasty; he wrote the "^ ^j{ ^ ^ Biographies of Famous Women, the first work of its kind; also the ^ ^ and ^ ^, treatises on government,, and some poetry; besides which he is credited, on insufficient grounds, with the ^J jjijf ^ , a collection of biographies of Taoist Immortals. Among legends connected with his name is one that as he was absorbed at night in his studies, an old man in a yellow robe entered, and said that he was the Essence of the First Principle,
and that he had been sent by God to unfold to Liu Hsiang the