The city of Changsha lies in the northeast quarter of the province of Hunan. Tt is situated on the r hank of the Siang river, which ture must be discounted cither on the ground of being legendary accretions or must be referred to th: aboriginal inhabitants who are st ca led "Miao" in the west of thy province as they are in the earliest reference in the earliest document of Chinese Classi The first act Chinese whom we come across as living in Hunan is one Chit Yuan who lived from B.C 232295. and who was, therefore, younger contemporary with dus (372-289). Chit was the politi-tical adviser of the king of Ch'u (or Ts'u). The affairs of the realm w in a very serious condition advice was disregarded; he, fore, committed suicide. mary of the deed is enshrined in from circulation in A.D. 1895) and ceted other reforms which lasted for many centuries.
He was utterly indifferent to human suffering, building the Wall, his enormous palace and what was probably the greatest tomb ever designed by any man, by forced labour which distressed the whole empire.
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