A Brief Introduction to the Author of Persuasion

Meng Jiao (75 1 ~ 8 14) was a poet in the Tang Dynasty. The word dongye. Huzhou (now Deqing, Zhejiang), Wu Kang, Pingchang (now northeast of Linyi, Shandong), lives in Luoyang (now Henan). Living in poverty in his early years, he traveled all over Hubei, Hunan and Guangxi, but he never met anyone and tried again and again. At the age of 46, he began to enter middle school. In the seventeenth year of Zhenyuan (80 1), Meng Jiao, aged 50, was appointed as the governor of Liyang in the south of the Yangtze River. His masterpiece Ode to a Wanderer was written in Liyang. When he was in office, he didn't serve Cao Cao. He often took pleasure in writing poems and was fined half a salary. In the ninth year of Yuanhe, he died in Ganxiang (now Lingbao, Henan).