he had been a novice in a Buddhist temple. He is generally known by the title of his reign as 洪武 Hung Wu.]

254L.	久	親	師	${\displaystyle \scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}}$	was for a long time engaged in warfare.
	Chiu3	ch'in1	shih1
	Long	personal	soldier

Chiu see line 202.

Ch'in see line 31.

Shih see line 20. [He was fighting for some twenty years before he mounted the throne.]

254M.	傳	建	文	${\displaystyle \scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}}$	He had transmitted the throne to Chien Wên
	Ch'uan2	chien4	wên2
	Transmit	chien	wên

Ch'uan see line 163.

Chien see line 216.

Wên see line 44. [ Chien Wên was the title of the reign of the second Emperor of the Ming dynasty, who was grandson of the first and who came to the throne in A.D. 1399.]

254N.	方	四	祀	${\displaystyle \scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}}$	only four years,
	Fang1	ssŭ4	ssŭ4
	Only	four	year

Fang see line 14.

Ssŭ see title.

Ssŭ means to sacrifice; hence, probably in reference to the great annual sacrifices, it comes to mean a year. [That is to say, the second Emperor sat on the throne only four years with his capital at Nanking.]

254O.	遷	北	京	${\displaystyle \scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}}$	when the capital was transferred to Peking,
	Ch'ien1	pei3	ching1
	Remove	north	capital

Ch'ien see line 6.

Pei see line 61.