Ou Daren

Who was Ou Daren?

Ou Daren was a Ming dynasty scholar, a native of Chencun, Shunde in Guangdong province. Becoming an official with the Second-Degree Scholars, he was appointed at posts such as Assistant of the Imperial College, Officer in Ministry of Work Affairs in Nanjing, etc. He was famous for his poetry, and was one of "The Latter Five Poets of the Southern Garden", along with Liang Youyu, Li Minbiao, Wu Dan and Li Shixing. His famous works are the Collected Works of Ou Yubu and the Biographies of Virtuous Ancestors of Bai Yue.