Liu Yin

(1249 - 1293)

A scholar and philosopher of the Yuan dynasty, Liu Yin was famed for his poetry and erudition. As a child he showed a penchant for memorizing prose, though he would often become impatient with his studies, demanding instead to know the “true essence of the sages’ teachings.” Before his death at the age of forty-four, Liu served briefly in the court of Kublai Khan but relinquished the position to devote himself more fully to the Confucian Way.