Liu An

Liu An

▪ Chinese scholar
also called  Huainanzi , Wade-Giles romanization  Huai-nan-tzu (Chinese: “Master Huainan”) 
born 179?, Peixian, Jiangsu province, China
died 122 BC

      Chinese nobleman and scholar who was one of the few prominent Daoist philosophers active during the 700-year period between the peak of Daoist thought in the 4th century BC and its resurgence in the 3rd and 4th centuries AD.

      Liu An was a grandson of Gaozu, the founder of the Western Han dynasty, and a cousin of the reigning emperor. Inheriting a kingship and granted the fief of Huainan (modern north-central Anhui province), Liu An became a patron of arts and sciences and attracted many talented people to his court. Under his patronage the important classic Huainanzi (also called Huainan honglie) was written. After being implicated in a plot against the imperial throne, he committed suicide.

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