Yongxing Wen Yi Gong Yu Shinan (July 1 1, 558-638) was born in Yuyao, Yuezhou (now Zhenming Hechang, Guanhaiwei, Cixi City, Zhejiang Province). From the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, he was a famous calligrapher, writer, poet and politician, and one of the twenty-four outstanding figures in Lingyange. Son of Li Yu, illegitimate son of Prince Chen, younger brother of Yu Shiqi, assistant minister of literature and history of Sui Dynasty.
Yu Shinan is quiet and lustful, and is determined to study hard. Chen Shi, king of Ren Jianan, sent grass to join the army, especially. After entering the Sui Dynasty, he became an official secretary and a living person. After the demise of the Sui Dynasty, he was appointed assistant minister of Huangmen by Dou Jiande. After the destruction of Dou Jiande, Yu Shinan joined the army as a Qin, a clerk and a museum, and together with Fang * * * Zhang, he was one of the "eighteen bachelors". During the Zhenguan period of Emperor Taizong, he served as a deacon, secretary, secretary supervisor and so on, and successively served as the son of Yongxing County and the public of Yongxing County, so the old people called him "Yu Yongxing and Yu Secret Supervisor". Although he looks timid, he is strong-willed and outspoken, and won the respect of Emperor Taizong. In the twelfth year of Zhenguan (638), he died at the age of 81. Posthumous title Wen Yi, the minister of rites, gave Zhaoling a burial. In the seventeenth year of Zhenguan (643), it was painted like Lingyan Pavilion.
Emperor Taizong called his morality, loyalty, erudition, literature and prose the five wonders. Good at calligraphy, and Ou Yangxun, Chu Suiliang and Xue Ji are also called "four masters in the early Tang Dynasty". Japanese academic circles called Ou Yangxun, Chu Suiliang and Yu Shinan as "three masters in the early Tang Dynasty". Bei Tang Shu Chao was compiled by Bei Tang Shu Chao, which is considered as one of the four great books in Tang Dynasty and one of the earliest books in China. The original collection of poetry and prose has 30 volumes, but it has not been completely lost. In the Republic of China, Zhang Shouyong compiled four volumes of Miyu Ji Jian, which was incorporated into Siming Series.