祭十二郎文

jì​shí'èr​láng​wén

Ji Shierlang Wen

An elegiac prose piece written in 803 by the Tang dynasty essayist [[韩愈|韓愈|han2 yu4]] to mourn his nephew; widely considered one of the most moving examples of the sacrificial genre in Chinese literature.

祭 (literal) → 祭 · jì · to offer sacrifices 十二 (literal) → 十二 · shí'èr · twelve 郎 (literal) → 郎 · láng · young man 文 (literal) → 文 · wén · article

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created sense May 20, 2026, 07:57 PM