Traditional Chinese 虞世南 Name Yu Shinan Wade–Giles Yu Shih-nan | Pinyin Simplified Chinese 虞世南 Died 638 AD | |
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Courtesy name Boshi (Chinese: 伯施; pinyin: Boshi; Wade–Giles: Po-shih) Posthumous name Duke Wenyi of Yongxing (simplified Chinese: 永兴文懿公; traditional Chinese: 永興文懿公; pinyin: Yongxing Wenyi Gong; Wade–Giles: Yung-hsing Wen-i Kung) | ||
Yu Shinan (558–638), courtesy name Boshi, posthumously known as Duke Wenyi of Yongxing, was a Chinese official, litterateur, Confucian scholar and calligrapher who lived in the early Tang dynasty and rose to prominence during the reign of Emperor Taizong. His uncle, Yu Ji (虞寄), also served in the Tang imperial court as an Imperial Secretary. He is regarded as one of the four greatest calligraphers in the early Tang dynasty along with Ouyang Xun, Chu Suiliang and Xue Ji, and one of the more famous ones in the history of Chinese calligraphy. Emperor Taizong once mentioned that Yu Shinan was "a man of five absolute merits".
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