- This is a Chinese name; the family name is Shen.
Shen Yue (simplified Chinese: 沈约; traditional Chinese: 沈約; pinyin: Shěn Yuē; Wade-Giles: Shen Yüeh) (441–513), courtesy name Xiuwen (休文), was a Chinese historian born in Huzhou, Zhejiang.
He was a prominent scholar of the Liang Dynasty and author of the Book of Song, a historical work covering the history of the previous Liu Song Dynasty. He is probably best known as the originator of the first deliberately applied rules of tonal euphony in the history of Chinese prosody.
See also
References
- Shen, Yucheng, "Shen Yue". Encyclopedia of China, 1st ed.
| This Chinese academic-related biographical article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
 |
This article about a historian is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer)
