Su Xun only began studying in earnest at twenty-seven.
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culture
With his two sons he makes up the 三苏, the "Three Sus" of 眉山, and all three are among the 唐宋八大家, the Eight Great Prose Masters of the Tang and Song. The children's primer 《三字经》 holds up his late start as a lesson that it is never too late to begin.
history
His best-known essay, 《六国论》 (On the Six States), argues that the six states fell to Qin because they kept buying peace with land.
