1851
Tai Liang 戴良(T. 叔鸞 ). 2nd cent. A.D. A native of 愼陽
Shên-yang in Honan, who was an eccentric fellow and fond
of shocking public prejudices. He graduated as hsiao lien, but would
not take office; and when afterwards he received an appointment,
he fled away into the mountains. He gave his daughters only cotton
clothes and wooden shoes for their trousseaux. On being asked who
there was to be compared with himself, he replied, "Like Confucius
and the Great Yü, I walk alone."
Tai P«ing 戴憑 (T. 次中). 1st cent. B.C. and A.D. A native 1852 of P4ng-y(i in Honan, who was deeply read in the Confucian Canon, and rose to high office under the Emperor Euang Wu Ti. On a certain New Year's Day, when the great officers of State were paying their respects, his Majesty bade them examine one another in the Canon and take precedence accordingly. The result was that Tai P^ng passed over the heads of some fifty of his colleagues, and his knowledge of the Sacred Books became a household-word at the capital.
Tai Sheng 戴聖 (T. 次君). 1st and 2nd cent. B.C. Cousin 1853 to Tai Tê, whose work on Rites he reduced to 49 sections. It was known as 小戴禮 and is now incorporated in the Confucian Canon as the Book of Rites.
Tai Shu-lun 戴叔倫 (T. 幼公). 9th cent. A.D. A native 1854 of 潤 Jun-chou in Kiangsu, distinguished as a poet and official under the T'ang dynasty. For his successful administration of 撫 Fu-chou in Kiangsi he was ennobled as Baron. Under his rule "agriculture yielded larger returns every year, and the gaols were empty of prisoners."
Tai Teê 戴德 (T. 延君 ). 1st and 2nd cent. B.C. A pupil of 1855 Hon Ts'ang, who prepared a work on Rites in 85 sections. He is known as 大戴 the Elder Tai, to distinguish him from his cousin Tai Shêng.
