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18. 唐紀 TANG Kı.

Names of Sovereigns.

1 Káu tsú.

2 Ảo Trái trùng.

3. Đi đi khu trung.

4 中宗 Chung tsung.

5. 睿宗 Jui tóung.

6宗 Hinen tsung-

7 肅宗 Suh teung.

8代宗 Tái tsung.

9 德宗 Teh tsung.

10 Shun tsung.

11 Hien tsung.

憲宗

12 穆宗 Muh tsung.

13 King tsung.

敬宗

14 Wan tsung..

文宗

15 武宗 Wú tsung.

16 宜宗 Sinen tung.

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17.懿宗 I tsung.

18 Hitsung.

僖宗

19 Hạ Â Cháu trùng

20 昭宣帝 Cháusiuen tí.

Cotemporary Chinese Events,

tung páu ts'ien, the

copper coin, now current, first comes into use.

The Nestorians enter China

about this time, when the empress

Wú Tsihtien lived.

And books began to be bound;

previously scrolls only were used.

梨園弟子 theatricals com-

mence.

k'ou shi, the literary ex-

aminations-instituted about this

time.

帝聞空中神語 the em-

peror heard in the firmament di- vine words.

tu từ Ẫ chủ shui chứ, an

初稅茶

impost on tea began in the 9th year of Teh tsung.

'The feast of lanterns comes into

vogue.

Hien tsung brought one of the fingers of Budha in procession to his capital.

服金丹而崩 The emper-

lor Muh, a devotee of the Ration- Jalists' school fuh kin tán 'rh pang, swallowed the philosopher's stone and died.

fut wu yú ch'ing, a city

without sorrow.

Eunuchs exercise great influ- ence in the affairs of state.

The emperor Cháu commanded one of his prisoners to be ̇鋸之

kü chi, sawn aṣunder.

Lí Yuen, of the house of Liáng, was the founder of this dynasty, which is second to none except perhaps that of Hán. During this