Ying Shao (140–206),

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Zhongyuan, was a Chinese politician, writer and historian who lived during the

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. He was an author of the ''

Fengsu Tongyi ''Fengsu Tongyi'' (), also known as ''Fengsu Tong'', is a book written about 195 AD by Ying Shao, who lived during the later Eastern Han period. The manuscript is similar to an almanac An almanac (also spelled ''almanack'' and ''almanach'') is ...

'', an encyclopedic work about the folk customs and legends that existed in the Eastern Han dynasty. Ying Shao occupied official posts in the Han government, and in his official position he was an active participant in imperial politics. He was a long-time close associate of

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, and in that connection he was extensively covered in volumes 9, 35, 71 and 103 of the historical text ''

Book of the Later Han The ''Book of the Later Han'', also known as the ''History of the Later Han'' and by its Chinese name ''Hou Hanshu'' (), is one of the Twenty-Four Histories and covers the history of the Han dynasty from 6 to 189 CE, a period known as the Lat ...

''.

Life

Ying Shao was from Nandun County (), Runan Commandery (), which is located west of present-day Xiangcheng,

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. In the early 190s, Ying Shao served as the Administrator of Taishan Commandery in

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. He repelled an attack on his commandery by the remnants of the Yellow Turban rebels, recorded in the ''Book of the Later Han''. In 193 and 194, the warlord Cao Cao attacked Xu Province to seek vengeance for the murder of his father Cao Song, thus Ying Shao fled from Taishan Commandery and took refuge under Cao Cao's rival

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. By the time Cao Cao defeated the Yuan family and conquered the

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region, Ying Shao was already dead. The interim events are given in two versions in

Pei Songzhi Pei Songzhi (372–451), courtesy name Shiqi, was a Chinese historian and politician who lived in the late Eastern Jin dynasty and Liu Song dynasty. His ancestral home was in Wenxi County, Shanxi, but he moved to the Jiangnan region late ...

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to the ''

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'', the ''Wei Jin Shiyu'' () by Guo Song (), and Wei Zhao's ''Book of Wu'' ().

References

* Fan, Ye (5th century). ''

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Life

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