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[[File:Liu Zongyuan.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Liu Zongyuan]]
'''Liu Zongyuan''' was born in 773 during the [[Tang Dynasty]] (618-907) in what is now [[Yuncheng]] of north China's [[Shanxi]] province. He was a well-learned scholar and excelled at debating. He passed the [[imperial examination]] at the age of 21 and became an official in the central government. Eager to fight corruption, he teamed up with his peers to launch a reform to deprive eunuch cliques of their political powers, which largely contributed to the corruption of the political scene at the time. However, they failed, and Liu was demoted to a minor official in a region in what is now Hunan province. Later on, he was further demoted and sent to [[Liuzhou]], located in the present-day [[Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region]] of [[South China]]. Sinking into a deep depression, he passed away while residing there at the age of 46 on Nov. 28, 819.

As a [[philosophe]]r, Liu was a believer of [[materialism]] and [[antitheism]]. As a writer, he left an abundant legacy of fables, travel writings, poems, biographies and letters. When presenting pictures of society, he always expressed his ideology in his works.
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