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in life that took years to overcome because his elder brother had not been strict enough with him in the absence of their father. He stressed the need to acquire a good education, since well-educated ministers were chosen for posts, while others who had prestigious family lines for centuries wound up
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defeated the
Northern Qi in February 577, becoming the sole ruling dynasty over northern China. At age forty-six, Yan Zhitui moved back to Chang'an where he had once spent time in captivity. For the next several years he was not appointed to any governmental posts, and suffered for a brief time in a
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Yan Zhitui's father Yan Xie died in 539, when he was only nine years old (by East Asian reckoning). Without a father figure to guide or support him, Yan was raised largely by his elder brother. In his teenage years, Yan served as a lowly court attendant in the southern capital at
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learning and education. Yan also required of his sons that his funeral be accompanied by
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working on farms or tending to horses in the stable if they were not properly educated. Although he stressed the need for mastering calligraphy, painting, and playing the musical instrument of the lute (
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usurped control in the north from the
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