Yu Xin

Chinese poet · Writers · Lived 513 to 581 · aged 68

Yu Xin (513-581) was a Chinese poet, politician, and writer of the Liang and Northern Zhou dynasties of medieval China. Yu Xin was one of the founders of the Xu-Yu literary style together with Xu Ling, and the author of a famous fu. His courtesy name was Zǐshān (子山), and he was known as Yu Shin in Japan.

Yu Xin is read about 44 times a day, in 7 languages.

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Cover of collected work by Yu Xin (here referred to by his courtesy name Yu Zishan) as it appears in Sibu Congkan (四部叢刊; "(The) Four Branches of Literature Collection")

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