Pel Yin H l|S . 5th cent. A.D. Aathor of the ^ IB ^ Mi ^^^ the earliest commentary on the great history of SstL-ma Oh4en. P«dng Cfa'ang ^ ^ (T. >f|^ |g). Died A.D. 29. A native of 1636 Nan-yang, who rose to be Governor of Tfl-yang nnder the Emperor KAng Shih of the Han dynasty. When Lin Hsin was raising funds from among the nobles, P*£ng sent in large subsidies of grain, in the hope of receiving some reward. But his friend ^ |^ Chu Fou wrote and reminded him of the man who had a litter of young pigs, all with white heads, of which he thought so much that he set off to present them to the Emperor. On his way he came to a place where all the pigs had white heads; and with feelings of chagrin and astonishment he at once returned home. This story however did not prevent P*£ng Cheung from appealing to Liu Hsiu, on his accession as first Emperor of the Eastern Han dynasty, for some mark of recc^nition; and when he received nothing, he turned his thoughts to treason. He was shortly afterwards assassinated while sleeping, and his head was sent in a bag to the Emperor who canonised him as >^ ^ ^ the Disloyal Marquis. P'eng Hsien ]^ j^. A prehistoric statesman, who drowned 1636 himself owing to disappointment at losing the ear of his prince, and whose example is said to have suggested suicide to Ch^fl Yflan. P'eng Lo ^ ^ . 6th cent. A.D. A hero , who when his bowels 1637 protruded from a wound in battle, and he was unable to replace them, cut the part off with his sword and went on fighting.
P*Sng P'eng ]^ JH (T. 1= ff . H. D^Uj and ^ ^). A.D. 1688
1637—1704. A native of Fuhkien, who graduated as chU jen in 1660. In 1674 the rebel ESng Ching-chung tried to force him to hold oflSce, but P^Sng took to his bed and refused to rise until the collapse of the revolt. As Magistrate of ^ j^ San-ho in Chihli he did his duty without fear or favour, and earned much fame by his wise and impartial decisions. The Emperor, passing
