Crossword-Solution: LIANG 5 letters, 25 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

The last of these examples of noble women is that of the wife of Liang Hung, a poor philosopher of some two thousand years ago.

The girl on her part steadfastly refused to marry any one else, declaring that unless she married Liang Hung, she would not marry at all.

Praying for Rain.--From another Commentary on the _Spring and Autumn_, by Ku-liang Shu, fourth century B.C., we have the following note on Prayers for Rain, which are still offered up on occasions of drought, but now generally through the medium of Taoist and Buddhist priests:-- "Prayers for rain should be offered up in spring and summer only; not in autumn and winter.

The tune continued to break the perfect stillness with its iterated sadness, and a vague recollection came into my mind of a Chinese legend or poem I had read long ago in London, about a flute-player called Chang Liang.

And they, as they heard this music, and felt these memories well up in their hearts, were seized with a longing and a desire for home so potent and so imperative that one by one they left the battlefield in silence, and when the enemy came at the dawn, they found the plain deserted and empty, for in one minute the flute of Chang Liang had stolen the hearts of eight thousand men.