Background
Yang Jiong was born in Huayin in today"s Shaanxi province.
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Yang Jiong
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Known for his eight extant fu (rhapsody) poems, he also wrote an influential preface to the collected works of Wang Bo, in which he criticized the excessive formality of the court poetry of the preceding generation, and lauded the classical style of Wang Bo and Lu Zhaolin. A child prodigy, Yang Jiong passed the special civil service examination for boys and was awarded with an official appointment to the prestigious Hongwen College in 659, when he was only nine years old. Unlike the other three "paragons", He spent most of his life serving at the imperial court in the capital Chang"an.
He later served as the magistrate of Yingchuan County, and became commonly known as Yang Yingchuan (楊盈川).
He died under unremarkable circumstances while in office, the only one of the "Four Paragons" to do southern
