. The mythology of all races. Fig. 29. Ho Po in mystery and magic, although there are few myths told con-cerning these men themselves. The first of the three is ChangLiang. At the close of the short-lived Chin dynasty, 209 ,two military leaders, Liu Pang and Hsiang Chi, contended forthe mastery, and for a long time the latter was uniformly vic-torious. Finally the Kuang Wu terms of peace were negotiatedby which the father and wife of Liu Pang were restored to himjbut no sooner had they returned than Liu Pang proceeded tobreak the treaty and again to attack Hsiang Chi, whom he GREAT NATIONA
. The mythology of all races. Fig. 29. Ho Po in mystery and magic, although there are few myths told con-cerning these men themselves. The first of the three is ChangLiang. At the close of the short-lived Chin dynasty, 209 ,two military leaders, Liu Pang and Hsiang Chi, contended forthe mastery, and for a long time the latter was uniformly vic-torious. Finally the Kuang Wu terms of peace were negotiatedby which the father and wife of Liu Pang were restored to himjbut no sooner had they returned than Liu Pang proceeded tobreak the treaty and again to attack Hsiang Chi, whom he GREAT NATIONAL HEROES 93 shortly after defeated. Liu Pang thereupon proclaimed him-self Emperor of the Han dynasty which passed into historywith many, achievements to its credit. Out of these troubloustimes emerged the strange person, Chang Liang. He camefirst into prominence by his attempt to assassinate Shih Huang,the great Chin Emperor, at Po Lang Sha, which is Yang-wuHsien in Honan Province. After this futile attempt he retired. Fig. 30. Shan Kuei to a hiding place in Kiang-su Province. He joined the serviceof Liu Pang and it was on his advice that the Kuang Wu peace-terms were broken. When Liu Pang became Emperor heraised Chang Liang to the rank of Marquis, declaring that hissuccess had been mainly due to the wise counsels that had beengiven by Chang. The Emperor further honoured Chang bymaking him one of the Three Heroes (San Chieh). Afterthese honours had been conferred upon him, Chang renounced 94 CHINESE MYTHOLOGY the world to follow the example of Chih Sung Tzu who,according to the hteh Hsien Chuan^ was the arbiter of rain inthe period of the legendary Shen Nung. He devoted himselfto a study of the doctrines of Huang Ti and Lao Tzu, abstainedfrom food and sought for immortality. It was chiefly due tohis example that his descendant of the eighth generation, ChangTao-ling, devoted himself to the mysteries of alchemy.
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