102 A Chinese Biographical Dictionary248

Ch'ên Ta-shou (T. . H. ). A.D. 1701—1751. A succeBsfol official, who graduated as chin shth in 1733, Early distinguished for emditioiiy he won the first place at the special examination of Han-lin graduates held by the Emperor ChSen Lung in 1737. In 1748 he was a Minister of the Grand Council, and earned the Emperor's high approval by hb diligence in dealing with the vast mass of correspondence during the war in Chin-oh^uau. He was subsequently Viceroy at Canton. Canonised as ^ j^ , and included in the Temple of Worthies.

249 Ch'ên-t'ai . Died A.D. 1655. A grandson of O-yi-tu, who shared in the conquest of China. Appointed Pacificator of the South in 1647, he soon reduced Fuhkien to order and repelled the attacks of the pirate ^ ^ Ch^ng Ts^ai. After being degraded in 1651, in 1655 he was restored to his rank of Grand Secretary and sent to suppress a rising of Chang Hsien-ehung's suoceason in Hn-Euang. He died soon after his success had gained him the title of Viscount. Canonised as J^ ^ .

250 Ch'ên T'ao . 9th and 10th cent A.D. A poet and astronomer of the T'ang dynasty. Unable to brook the rule of the Later T'angs, he retired to the hills, and liyed in retirement with his wife, who was also a scholar, and grew oranges for a liyelihood. *'It is not,'* said he in one of his political poems, "that the phoenix and the ch'i tin visit the Middle Kingdom no more, but that they are all caught in the nets of' the Imperial family." A neigbbouriug o£Bcial once sent a waiting-maid to try his chastity, but he was proof against all her arts. He called himself ^ ^ ^ ^J^ .

251 Ch'ên Ti (T. ). 16th cent. A.D. A native of ^ ^}ji Lien-chiang in Fuhkien, who served as a military oflBcial beyond the Great Wall to the north of Peking, but who is chiefly

known as a writer on linguistic subjects. Author of the Jg ^