Du Guangting
Du Guangting (杜光庭) (850–933) was a Taoist priest and fiction writer in imperial China's Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
His most famous work was a short novel entitled "The Man with the Curly Beard" (虯髯客傳), sometimes considered the earliest novel in the wuxia genre.
Categories:
- Tang dynasty novelists
- Former Shu novelists
- Tang dynasty Taoists
- Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Taoists
- Former Shu people born during Tang
- Writers from Lishui
- 850 births
- 933 deaths
- 10th-century Chinese philosophers
- Chinese people stubs