Lu Jia (Western Han)

Lu Jia (陸賈; died 170 BC) was a Chinese philosopher and politician of the Western Han dynasty.

[1] He secured the nominal geopolitical submission of Zhao Tuo's kingdom of Nanyue to Han in 196 BC.

An anecdote tells that in an early meeting Liu scoffed at Lu's scholarly interests with the words "I do all my conquering from the back of my horse, what use have I for the Documents and Odes?"

[3][4] Xin Yu integrates the concepts of yin and yang into a description of benevolent rule and its relation to self-cultivation.

[5] This combination of yin and yang with classic Confucian concept of benevolent rule was a precursor to writing of Dong Zhongshu in the Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals.