Yan Guang (, – 75),

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Ziling ( zh, 子陵), also known as Zhuang Guang (), was one of the four important sages of

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Study

He became a

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and studied together with Emperor Liu Xiu (courtesy name: Wenshu), known as

Emperor Guangwu of Han Emperor Guangwu of Han (; 15 January 5 BC29 March AD 57), born Liu Xiu (), courtesy name Wenshu (), was a Chinese monarch. He served as an emperor of the Han dynasty by restoring the dynasty in AD 25, thus founding the Eastern Han dynasty. He ...

Legacy

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 ''Wu Shuang Pu'' () is a book of woodcut prints, first printed in 1694, early on in the Qing dynasty. This book contains the biographies and imagined portraits of 40 notable heroes and heroines from the Han dynasty to the Song dynasty, all ac ...

(, Table of Peerless Heroes) by Jin Guliang. The images and poems for this book are widely spread and reused over again, including in porcelain art

In popular culture

* Yan Ziling is portrayed by

Ma Tianyu Ma Tianyu ( zh, s=马天宇, p=Mǎ Tiānyǔ; born 12 July 1986), also known as Ray Ma, is a Chinese singer and actor. He graduated from the Beijing Film Academy. Career Early life Ma was born to an ethnic Hui people, Hui family in Wucheng ...

in the 2016 Chinese drama ''

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''.

Notes and references

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