Yang Xiong (Chinese: 揚雄/扬雄 or 楊雄/杨雄; pinyin: Yáng Xióng; Wade-Giles: Yang Hsiung; 53 BCE-18 CE) was a Chinese Daoist, poet, and author. This Han Dynasty philosopher is considered a materialist. He did not believe human nature was inherently good as Mencius had written, nor inherently bad as Xunzi had written, but came into existence as a mixture of both. His works include the divinatory Taixuan (太玄; "Great Mystery"), the Fayan (法言; "Words to Live By") anthology, and the first dialect dictionary Fangyan. It has been suggested that Guo Shiguang be merged into this article or section. ... Nicknamed the Pale-faced Warrior, Yang Xiong was one of the 36 Heavenly Chieftains amongst the 108 Liangshan bandits in the Water Margin. ... Hanyu Pinyin (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: ), commonly called Pinyin, is the most common variant of Standard Mandarin romanization system in use. ... Wade-Giles, sometimes abbreviated Wade, is a Romanization (phonetic notation and transliteration) system for the Chinese language based on Mandarin. ... For other uses of the words tao and dao, see Dao (disambiguation). ... The poor poet A poet is a person who writes poetry. ... An author is the person who creates a written work, such as a book, story, article or the like. ... Later Han redirects here. ... This article primarily focuses on the general concepts of matter and existence. ... Mencius (most accepted dates: 372 BC – 289 BC; other possible dates: 385 BC – 303 BC or 302 BC) was born in the State of Zou (鄒國), now forming the territory of the county-level city of Zoucheng (邹城市), Shandong province, only 30 km (18 miles) south of Qufu, the town of Confucius. ... Xunzi Xún Zǐ (荀子, or Hsün Tzu c. ...

See also

• Materialism

In philosophy, materialism is that form of physicalism which holds that the only thing that can truly be said to exist is matter; that fundamentally, all things are composed of material and all phenomena are the result of material interactions. ...

External links

• Yang Xiong, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy biography
• Yang Xiong, Qin Shi Bu (琴史補; "Appended History of the Guqin") article

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