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Cai Yong
Cai Yong was a scholar, calligrapher, musician and official of the Eastern Han dynasty. He supervised the engraving of the Xiping Stone Classics, the official texts of the Confucian classics cut in stone at Luoyang in 175–183. Out of favour at court, he later served the warlord Dong Zhuo and died in prison after Dong's assassination in 192. His daughter Cai Wenji was a celebrated poet.
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