2081 Tuan Oh^eng-shih JgJ Jjg jS^ (T. ^ ^). Died A.D. 863. A
scholar and official of the T^ang dynasty. He rose to be a snb-
Director of the Court of Sacrificial Worship, and was the author
of the ^ ^ ^ ^, a well-known miscellany on the sights and
wonders of the ancient capital Lo-yang.
2082 Tuan Hsiu-Bhih JgJ ^ j|f (T. Jjg-^). Died A.D. 783. A native of yff ^ Gh'ien-yang in Shensi, who threw aside boob and adopted a military career. After successful campaigns against An Lu-shan and later on against the Turfans he rose by 779 to be President of the Board of Bites and was ennobled as Prince; but in the following year his opposition to the proposal of Yang Yen to fortify j^ Ydan-chou in Shensi caused him to be dismissed. In 783 Chu Tz'tl, thinking that Tuan must be disappointed and disaffected, invited him to join in his rebellion. Tuan feigned com- pliance, and at an interview he made an heroic attempt to brain the rebel with a heavy ivory tablet. He was overpowered and shun. The Emperor recognised his patriotism, and he was canonised as
2083 Tuan-mu Tz*u i^i^^ (T. -^ ^). Bom B.C. 520. One
of the foremost among the disciples of Confucius, to whom he showed extreme devotion and among whose Four Friends he is reckoned. Confucius spoke approvingly of the quickness displayed by this disciple in appreciating his teachings, and declared that with such a man he could speak freely on the Odes. He was in attendance upon the Sage at the time of his death; and at the end of the period during which a number of the other disciples mourned near the Master*s tomb, he remained for 3 years longer. From a passage in the Analects it is inferred that he occupied himself with trade; hence the phrase j^ "^ ^^ |^ is used of a livelihood earned in commercial pursuits. But he appears to have held office as magistrate at ^ ^ Hsin-yang; and on one occasioD
