Li Yong served as governor of Beihai, so people called him Li Beihai.
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history
He was the son of 李善, whose commentary on the 《文选》 is the standard one, and was sought after for stele inscriptions in running script, which he wrote by the hundred. In 747 he was flogged to death on the orders of the chancellor 李林甫.
culture
The young 李白 addressed 《上李邕》 to him, a poem that opens with the great roc rising on the wind.
