to be President of the Board of Bites. As an official, he urged the iuconyenieDce of frequent changes in the high prorincial posts, the need for giving adequate salaries to m^istrates, and the hardships of criminal procedure. As an author, he produced the ^ ^, a work on the Canon of Changes , the ^ ^ ^ Q ^, a chronologj of the Spring and Autumn^ the ^ ^ ^ ^ and the ^ ^ ^ ^ , two works on the Shuo Win , and a collection of essajs entitled ^ fi^ ^ ^ ^ • As an astrologer, he foretold the j^ ^ Lin-ch4ng rebellion and the war of 1842. Canonised as ^ ^.
2442 Yeh Fa-hsi ^ j^ # • 8th cent. A.D. A natire of ^ Ch'o- chou in Ohehkiang, who acquired great reptitation as a magidao under the Emperor Ming Huang, and is said to hare personally conducted his Majesty to the moon. Not to be confounded with Yeh Fa- ^ shan , another magician who was patronised by iiie Emperor Eao Tsung some fifty years previously.
2443 Teh Pang-ai ^ j^ IE (T. ^ ^. H. ^ ^). Died A.D.
1682. Graduated as third chin shih in 1659, and attracted the
Emperor*s notice by his honest representations on public afiairs.
He rose to be Vice President of the Board of Rites in 1680. Canonised as ^ ^ .
2444 Teh Hsiang-kao ^ fS) ]^ (T. %^). A.D. 1558-1627. Graduating as chin shih in 1583, he rose by 1607 to be Minister of State. He failed to rouse the Emperor ShSn Tsung to a proper sense of his duties, but succeeded in driving to bis fief the Prince of |[|§ Fu, son of the favourite concubine ^ ChSng, and so preventing auy risk of a disputed succession. Retiring in 1614, he was forced to resume the post in 1621; and though he was able for a time to save many good men from the vengeance of Wei Chung-hsien, he was finally driven from office by the eunuchs in 1624. Canonised as ;^ ^ .
2446 Teh-m Cho-li-chih ]^ # 1^ M R • Died A.D. 926. A chieftain
