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Ouyang Xun [Ou-yang Hsün; zi Xiben]
(b Xiangzhou [now Changsha], Hunan Province, AD 557; d Yingzhou [now Fuyang], Anhui Province, AD 641). Chinese calligrapher and scholar-official. Born into a family of government officials, he was a talented student who read widely in the classics. He took office under the Sui (AD 581–618) in AD 611 as Imperial Doctor and served under the Tang dynasty (AD 618–907) as censor and as a scholar at the Hongwen Academy, where he taught calligraphy. He attained the status of Imperial Calligrapher and inscribed several of the major imperial stelae. He was a well-rounded man of culture, a scholar and a government official, and along with Yu Shinan (AD 558–638) and Chu Suiliang (AD 596–658) became known as one of the Three Great Calligraphers of the Early Tang (see CHINA, §IV, 2(iii)).
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