World Children's Story Classics: Family Stories

Chapter 73 The End of the World
Han Yu was a great writer in the Tang Dynasty.He depended on his elder brother to live when he was young.There was a nephew named Twelve Lang; later Han Yu's elder brother died of illness. At that time, Han Yu was only 11 years old, and Twelve Lang was also very young.The two were alone, and never left for a day.Han Yu entered the capital at the age of 19, and 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.Han Yu was distraught, and wrote an article "Sacrifice to the Twelve Langs".This sacrificial article, every word and every tear, makes people feel sad to read.In the sacrificial text, there is a sentence "one is at the end of the sky, the other is at the corner of the earth", and later generations extended it into the idiom "the ends of the earth and the corners of the earth", which is used to describe extremely distant places.

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