war with England in 1840. The collapse of China forced from her the Nanking Treaty of 1842, by which the ports of Canton , Amoy, Foochow, Ningpo, and Shanghai, were opened to foreign trade. The cost of this war and the payment of a substantial indemnity fanned the discontent caused by official corruption; and secret societies and pirates seized this faYourable opportunity for doing all in their power to harass the Government and disturb the country. Canonised as ^ ^ J^ M ^•
Tao Tsung. See Yeh-lii Hung-obi. Tao Wu Ti. See Toba Kuei ^
Tao YUan ^ |9 • ^ Buddhist pricipt of j^ Ts'ang-chou in 1890 Chihli, who in 965 A.D. set o£P for India. After (Eighteen years he returned to the capital, in company with an envoy from Ehoten, bearing relics and Sanscrit sUtras written on palm-leaves. He obtained a private audience and was questioned as to his journey, receiving a purple robe and other rewards.
Tao Ytin ^ ^ . 4th cent. A.D. The clever niece of the famous 1891 Hsieh An , and daughter of §^ ^ Hsieh I of the Chin dynasty, who when her brother likened a snow-storm to salt sprinkled in the air, corrected his feeble similitude by saying it was rather to be compared with wiUow-catkins whirled by the wind. She married Wang Ning-chih, but left him because he was such a fool.
T'ao CJh'ien P^ jf (T. jc ^.*H. i DP :5t ^ and ^ |jf 1892
^ ^). A.D. 865-427. Great-grandson of T'ao K*an. A youth of wide reading and great ambition, he was compelled by poverty to become an official underling; but after a few days he resigned and went home, where he made himself ill by overwork in the fields. He was subsequently appointed magistrate at ^ ^ P^dng- ts§ in Kiangsi, whence he is sometimes called T'ao P*^ng-tsd. He held the post however only for 83 days, objecting to receive a superior officer with the usual ceremonial on the ground that '^he could not
