Yan Guang
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Yan Guang (Chinese: 嚴光, c. 1–75 AD), courtesy name Ziling (Chinese: 子陵), also known as Zhuang Guang (Chinese: 莊光),[1] was one of the four important sages of Yuyao.[2]
Study[edit]
He became a scholar and studied together with Emperor Liu Xiu (courtesy name: Wenshu), known as Emperor Guangwu of Han.
Legacy[edit]
Liu Xiu offered Yan Ziling a high position in the court. Yan refused the offer, fearing he would become corrupt, and chose to live as a hermit in the mountains. This act made Yan Ziling a famous Chinese hero and gave him a place in the Wu Shuang Pu (無雙譜, Table of Peerless Heroes)[3] by Jin Guliang. The images and poems for this book are widely spread and reused over again, including in porcelain art[4]
In popular culture[edit]
- Yan Ziling is portrayed by Ma Tianyu in the 2016 Chinese drama Singing All Along.[5]
Notes and references[edit]
- ^ Berkowitz, Alan (2000). Patterns of Disengagement: The Practice and Portrayal of Reclusion in Early Medieval China. Stanford University Press. p. 104. ISBN 0-8047-3603-0.
- ^ "Famous people of Yuyao". The Peoples Government of Ningbo Municipality. Zhejiang.
- ^ "Wushuang Pu". St John's College, Cambridge. Retrieved June 7, 2021.
- ^ Wu, Yi-Li (2008-01-01). "The Gendered Medical Iconography of the Golden Mirror (Yuzuan yizong jinjian , 1742)". Asian Medicine. 4 (2): 452–491. doi:10.1163/157342009X12526658783736. ISSN 1573-420X.
- ^ Xin, Li (2015). The Legend of Liu Xiu And Yin Lihua.ISBN 7511353738
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