Han Yu | |||||||||
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Born | 768 Heyang (now Mengzhou, Henan) | ||||||||
Died | 824 (aged 55–56) | ||||||||
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Occupation | Essayist, philosopher, poet, politician |
Han Yu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 韓愈 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 韩愈 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Han Yu (Chinese: 韓愈; 768 – 25 December 824), courtesy name Tuizhi (Chinese: 退之), and commonly known by his posthumous name Han Wengong (韓文公), was an essayist, Confucian scholar, poet, and government official during the Tang dynasty who significantly influenced the development of Neo-Confucianism.[1] Described as "comparable in stature to Dante, Shakespeare or Goethe" for his influence on the Chinese literary tradition,[2] Han Yu stood for strong central authority in politics and orthodoxy in cultural matters.
He is often considered to be among China's finest prose writers.[3] Ming dynasty scholar Mao Kun (茅坤) ranked him first among the "Eight Great Prose Masters of the Tang and Song".[4]
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