Yu Xin

Yu Xin was one of the founders of the Xu-Yu literary style together with Xu Ling, and the author of a famous fu.

[2] In 554, Yu Xin was sent as an ambassador to the Western Wei in Chang'an, a mission that did not meet with success.

On the way to his mission, he visited Wang Shao, now an official censor, who rejected further advances.

[3] Along with the poet and official Xu Ling and the fathers of both men, Yu is known for the Xu-Yu Style (徐庾体), which was known as "fancy and alluring".

[4] Perhaps his most famous poem is The Lament for the South (哀江南賦), which James Hightower has described as the highest development of the fu form of poetry.

Cover of collected work by Yu Xin (here referred to by his courtesy name Yu Zishan) as it appears in Sibu Congkan (四部叢刊; "(The) Four Branches of Literature Collection")