We turn now to the twentieth chapter of Chʽien’s “Biographies” , in which he gives an account of Yüeh Yi , the scion of a distinguished family, and who himself played a famous part, both as a politician and military leader, and became prince of Wang-chu under the kingdom of Chao in BC 279. Among his descendants was a Yüeh Chʽên , who learned in Chʽi “the words,” that is, the Taoistic writings “of Huang Ti and Laozi from an old man who lived on the ho -side.” The origin of this old man was not known, but