Yang Xiong

Yang Xiong or Yang Hsiung ( Chinese 揚雄 / 扬雄 , Pinyin Yáng Xióng , W.-G. Yang Hsiung , born 53 BC ; died 18 AD ) was a Chinese philosopher and poet who, alongside Sima Xiangru and Jia Yi was one of the most important poets of the Han period , who wrote at the court of Emperor Fu .

Around 20 BC He received a call to the imperial court, where he wrote particularly ornate Fu, which dealt with the important acts of the emperor such as sacrifice and hunt. In his later life, however, he rejected Fu as a means of influencing the ruler, calling them childlike style exercises.

In addition to Fu, Yang Xiong also received some philosophical and philological writings. Unlike other earlier Confucian philosophers like Xunzi , who claimed that humans are evil, Yang Xiong assumed that humans are both evil and good.

literature

Volker Klöpsch, Eva Müller: Lexicon of Chinese Literature. CH Beck, Munich 2004

Individual evidence

↑ Hans Steininger : The Far Eastern understanding of education and its decline in modern times. In: Winfried Böhm , Martin Lindauer (ed.): “Not much knowledge saturates the soul”. Knowledge, recognition, education, training today. (= 3rd symposium of the University of Würzburg. ) Ernst Klett, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-12-984580-1 , pp. 107–128, here: p. 113.

personal data
SURNAME	Yang Xiong
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	扬雄; Yáng Xióng; Yang Hsiung; 楊雄 (variant)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Chinese philosopher and poet
DATE OF BIRTH	53 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	18th

[1] Hans Steininger : The Far Eastern understanding of education and its decline in modern times. In: Winfried Böhm , Martin Lindauer (ed.): “Not much knowledge saturates the soul”. Knowledge, recognition, education, training today. (= 3rd symposium of the University of Würzburg. ) Ernst Klett, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-12-984580-1 , pp. 107–128, here: p. 113.