柳宗元
Traditional form:
柳宗元
Pinyin (reading):
Liǔ Zōngyuán
Definitions:
- Liu Zongyuan (773-819), Tang essayist and poet, advocate of the classical writing 古文運動／古文运动 and neoclassical 復古／复古 movements
Characters:
- 柳 - willow tree; pleasure; surname
- 宗 - ancestry, clan, family, lineage; religion, sect
- 元 - first; dollar; origin; head
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