 The son of a minor scholar @-@ official , his youth was spent on the standard education of a future civil servant : study and memorisation of the Confucian classics of philosophy , history and poetry . He later claimed to have produced creditable poems by his early teens , but these have been lost . 
 The son of a minor scholar @-@ official , his youth was spent on the standard education of a future civil servant : study and memorisation of the Confucian classics of philosophy , history and poetry . He later claimed to <a href='been_done' title='1'><mark>have</mark></a> produced creditable poems by his early teens , but these <a href='been_done' title='2'><mark>have</mark></a> been lost . 
The son of a minor scholar @-@ official , his youth was spent on da standard education of a future civil servant : study and memorisation of the Confucian classics of philosophy , history and poetry . He later claimed to done produced creditable poems by his early teens , but dese done been lost .