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Western Han scholar-statesman (c. 100 BCE–54 BCE), maternal grandson of Sima Qian who first published the Shiji, author of the defiant 'Letter in Reply to Sun Huizong'.
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 Yang Ziyou · Marquis Pingtong
Yang Yun (c. 100 BCE–54 BCE) was a distinguished Western Han official and literary figure. As Sima Qian's grandson, he published the hidden manuscripts of Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji). Stripped of his noble titles for uncompromising outspokenness, his 'Letter to Sun Huizong' stands as a monument of classical Chinese epistolary literature.
Han
Literature · Prose1
Yang Yun (Ziyou)After the Huo clan was put to death, five men including Yang Yun were enfeoffed; he became Marquis of Pingtong and was moved up to Gentleman of the Household, and was later raised to Superintendent of the Palace with the added rank of Attendant, close to the emperor and entrusted with affairs.
