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Western Han literary master and prose stylist (206 BCE–129 BCE), famed for 'Memorial from Prison to the Prince of Liang' which averted execution through brilliant rhetoric.
In a study at night, a desk holds a brush pot, a porcelain vase with a plum branch, a lit red lantern, a folded fan and an unrolled blank scroll, with no one seated there, while through a round window the moon rises over a lake with a sailboat.
Also known as Master Zou
Zou Yang (206 BCE–129 BCE) was a master of Western Han argumentative prose. Falsely imprisoned in Liang under capital charges through court slander, he composed the immortal 'Memorial from Prison to the Prince of Liang', eloquently demonstrating historical patterns of loyalty and vindication, moving the Prince to release and honor him.
Han
Literature · Prose1Zou Yang, a man of Qi, served the King of Wu with Yan Ji and Mei Cheng, all famed for their skill in writing and argument. He later went to King Xiao of Liang, was slandered by Yang Sheng and Gongsun Gui and put in prison, and wrote a letter from jail that opens by saying loyalty is always repaid and good faith never doubted.