2. Lao Choo is not exactly identified. Most make him the same with T'ang's minister, Chung-hwuy; see the Shoo-king, IV, ii.
3. T'ae-kung Wang,—see IV, Pt. I, xiii. Of San E-sang more can hardly be said to be known than that he was an able minister of King W?n. Choo He seems to be wrong, however, in making San, instead of San-e, to be the surname. See the 四书摭余说, in loc.