His father died when he was two years old, and his mother died soon after. When he was a child, he relied on his brother and his sister-in-law Zheng.
Han Hui has an heir (younger brother, stepfather and eldest brother's son) named Lao Cheng, ranking twelfth, so he is nicknamed Shiro, a little younger than Han Yu. Later, when Han Hui was forty-two, he was demoted as the secretariat of Shaozhou by Yuan Zai, the prime minister, and died in Shaozhou within a few months. At this time, Han Yu was only eleven years old and Shi Lang was still very young. Although Han Yu had three brothers (Hui, Yang and Jie), they all died very early. At this time, only Han Yu and his nephew Shi Erlang inherited their ancestors and descendants, and they were lonely and inseparable.
Han Yu 19 years old went to Beijing from Yicheng, and only saw Shiro three times in the next ten years. When he was planning to return to the west and live with Shiro forever, unfortunately Shiro died at this time. Han Yu was heartbroken when he learned the news. He wrote a song "Ode to Twelve Lang" and asked Jianzhong to prepare some current affairs articles to pay tribute to him from a distance. This eulogy, a word and a tear, makes people sad to read.
In the eulogy, there are "one on the edge of the sky and one in the corner of the ground." Later generations extended it to "the ends of the earth", which is a metaphor for extremely distant places.