Du Guangting

In this Chinese name, the family name is Du.

Not to be confused with Du Yuming whose courtesy name is Guangting.

Du Guangting (杜光庭; 850–933) was a Taoist priest and fiction writer in imperial China's Tang dynasty and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.

His most famous work was a short novel entitled "The Man with the Curly Beard" (虯髯客傳), sometimes considered the earliest novel in the wuxia genre.