trad kingdom simp death_date wg pinyin post title zi birth_date article_title name
虞世南 the tang dynasty 虞世南 638 558 yü shih-nan yú shìnán duke gōng yung-hsing wen-i kung -rrb- wenyi of yongxing -lrb- 永興文懿公 永兴文懿公 yǒngxīng wényì official boshi -lrb- 伯施 bóshī po-shih -rrb- 558 yu shinan
 yu shinan
yu shinan

yu shinan -lrb- 558 -- 638 -rrb- , 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 -lrb- 虞寄 -rrb- , 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 '' .
