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Han Yu
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Chinese historian, poet, philosopher and politician (768–824)
Han Yu was a Chinese scholar and government official who lived during the Tang Dynasty and excelled as a historian, poet, and philosopher. He is remembered as an influential intellectual figure whose work helped shape Chinese thought and literature during his era.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Han
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Tang dynasty
- Place of birth
- Meng Prefecture
- Place of death
- Chang'an
- Occupation
- historian
- Languages spoken
- Chinese
- Religion
- Confucianism
- Field of work
- philosophy
- Image
- Han Yu.jpg
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- time period
- Tang dynasty
- Commons category
- Han Yu
- date of birth
- 0768-01-01
- Commons Creator page
- Han Yu
- described by source
- New Book of Tang
- date of death
- 0824-12-25
- courtesy name
- 退之
- posthumous name
- 文
- name in kana
- かん ゆ
- P8168
- 150
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Encyclopedic overview
OccupationEssayist, philosopher, poet, politician
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. Described as "comparable in stature to Dante, Shakespeare or Goethe" for his influence on the Chinese literary tradition, Han Yu stood for strong central authority in politics and orthodoxy in cultural matters.
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