Ancient China · Musician

You Meng 優孟

Attested BC 600

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

You Meng was a Musician.

Life and dates

Attested activity

BC 600 優孟之徒
Dated from the passage context · Book of Han 99, passage 112

References in the histories

Book of Han, Chapter 99Volume 87b: Yang Xiong 2 · 1 passage

又頗似俳優淳于髡、優孟之徒，非法度所存，賢人君子詩賦之正也，於是輟不復為。 It smacked too much of court buffoons like Chunyu Kun or You Meng—far from the norm for poetry and fu that gentlemen should keep—so he gave the genre up.