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Yelü Chucai

Type Figure Region Northern China Time 1190–1244 Also known as Jinqing、Old Man of Yuquan

Yelü Chucai (1190–1244), descendant of the Liao imperial clan and a renowned statesman of the late Jin and early Yuan periods.…

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  1. 1201–1210Yanjing · North ChinaDuring this period Yelü Chucai was about eleven to twenty years old; under the influence of his father Yelü Lü (Right Vice Director of the Department of State Affairs of Jin) he studied the Confucian classics, astronomy and calendrical calculation, and the arts of medicine and divination. He had not yet entered official service, but already showed broad learning and talent, laying the foundation for his later entry into the Mongol court.
  2. 1211–1218Yanjing · North ChinaAfter his father Yelü Lü died in 1213, Chucai observed mourning and lived in reclusion, supporting himself by medicine and divination, his reputation gradually rising. In 1218 he was summoned by Genghis Khan, entering the Mongol court and beginning his political career.

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