Yao Sui

Yao Sui (1238–1313) was a writer of Chinese sanqu poetry. Orphaned at age three, he was raised by his uncle Yao Shu and studied with the scholar Xu Heng. At age twenty-four he began his study of the Tang period prose masters and shortly thereafter began his thirty-year career as an official, eventually becoming a member of the Hanlin Academy. He began work on the Veritable Records of Kublai Khan. His formal collected writings of fifty chapters has survived, along with small collection of his sanqu lyrics.