Chapter 4 ends of the earth

Han Yu, courtesy name Tuizhi, was a great writer in the middle of the Tang Dynasty. His father died when he was two years old, and his mother died soon after.When he was young, he relied on his elder brother Han Hui and his sister-in-law Mrs. Zheng to live.Han Yuhui has an heir (the son of Brother Yuci, who is the heir of Brother Yuci, who is the heir of the eldest brother Hui) named Lao Cheng, who is the twelfth son, so his nickname is Twelve Lang, and he is a little younger than Han Yu.Later, when Han Hui was forty-two years old, he was demoted to be the governor of Shaozhou because of the incident of Prime Minister Yuan Zai. He died of illness in Shaozhou within a few months. At this time, Han Yu was only eleven years old, and Twelve Lang was also very young.Although Han Yu had three older brothers (Hui, Bian, Jie), they all passed away early.At this time, only Han Yu and his nephew Twelve Lang were the only ones who inherited the ancestors. They were lonely and never left for a day.

When Han Yu was nineteen years old, he went from Yicheng to the capital. In the next ten years, he only met Twelve Lang three times.When he was planning to live with Xigui and Twelve Lang forever, unfortunately Twelve Lang died at this time.When Han Yu heard the news, he was heartbroken and wrote a "Memorial to the Twelve Langs", asking Jianzhong to prepare some present-day items to pay homage to him from far away.This sacrificial article, every word and every tear, makes people feel sad to read. In the sacrificial oracle, there is a sentence "one is at the end of the sky, and the other is at the corner of the earth." Later generations extended it into the sentence "the ends of the earth and the corners of the earth", which is used to describe extremely distant places.