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Yeli Renrong

Type Figure Region Asia Time c. 980–1042 Also known as 野利仁荣、Yeli Renrong

Yeli Renrong was a Tangut minister and philologist of Western Xia. According to the History of Song, Yuanhao ordered him to elaborate the Tangut scri…

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  1. 1036Xingqing Prefecture · Xingqing PrefectureThe History of Song records that Yuanhao devised the Tangut script himself and ordered Yeli Renrong to elaborate it into twelve volumes. The English Wikipedia article 'Tangut script', citing the History of Song, states that the script was designed by Yeli Renrong in 1036 and quickly put to use in government schools and official documents. Thereafter Renrong headed Tangut studies.
  2. 1042–1162Xingqing Prefecture · Xingqing PrefectureRenrong died in the fifth year of Yanzuo (1042) and was posthumously granted the title Marquis of Fuping. In the fourteenth year of Tiansheng (1162), Emperor Renzong of Western Xia, Li Renxiao, in recognition of his merit in creating the Tangut script, posthumously raised him to King Guanghui. The claims of 'script preparation' during 1011–1020 and of his compiling the Fan Han He Shi Zhang Zhong Zhu have no verified basis.

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