Two or Hunanese attained to national fame in connexion with the revolution. One of these, Mr. Sung was murdered in the Shanghai railway station; two othe Tsai Ao and Huang Hsing are lieved to have shortened their lives by the hardships they underwent in the early days of revolution before the movement was widely accepted. But the one outstanding name that is inseparably connected with the days of the new regime in Hunan is that of T'an Yel-kai. Before the revolution he had_ won the highest literary fame. Every three years there used to be a metropolitan examination which selected Two Beauty Abodes.
The two most beautiful places in the city are two memorial temples erected to the two greatest heroes of the Taiping days, Tseng Kuo-fan ior Tsong Wen-cheng as his temple tame is) and his lieutenant. Tso Tsung-tang (or Tso Wen-hsiang) The Tseng temple is near the Hsiao-wit gate (east side), the Tso temple. near the north gate. The Tseng temple has been somewhat meanly used. A cheap method of commemorating the heroes who laid down their lives in the establishment of the Republic has been found by transforming the Tseng central building te a hall in memory of these heroes. The beautiful gardens behind this central hall, have suffered severely from the soldi coolies who have been quartered in them and have treated them most unceremoniously—once more the best 200 scholars of the empire for the metropolitan degree. The names of the successful candidates w inscribed stone tablets which still stand in the Peking Confucian Temple. One name heads each tablet; the " hui yuan," primus, of the year. The characters of this first scholar run right across the three columns below it containing the 199 compeers Last of the tablets is one which has the three characters Tan Yen-K'ai as hui-yuan.
Tt was doubtless this great di tinction which led to the selection of Mr. Yan to be the president of the first provincial assembly. was from the Assembly Hall that he was hurried nine days after the revolution had been proclaimed in Changsha to take the place of the murdered man who had aspired to be the first republican governor of Hunan—a post for which the unfortunate man had no personal qualifications whatever. Mr. T'an had no part in the murder which opened the way for him to he go ernor. He was never told a word about the plan and was great distressed at the honour which was thrust upon him.
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