DG
The basics
Quick facts
Intro
Chinese writer
Known for
Biographie du chevalier à la barbe frisée
A.K.A.
Du Guangting, Huading?Ren, Guangcheng xiansheng, Dongyingzi, Binsheng, Dengyingzi, Binzhi
Gender:
Male
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Birth:
850(Jinyun County, People's Republic of China)
Death:
933
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The details
Biography
Du Guangting (杜光庭) (850–933) was a Taoist priest and fiction writer in imperial China's Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
His most famous work was a short novel entitled "The Man with the Curly Beard" (虯髯客傳), sometimes considered the earliest novel in the wuxia genre.