What kind of person was Yuan Zhen in history?

Outstanding talent and generous personality.

Yuan Zhen is good at both poetry and prose. The Collection of Yuan Zhen contains more than 3 volumes of articles, which should be prepared in various forms, and sometimes there are excellent works and famous articles. Yuefu poetry plays an important role in Yuan poetry, and Yuan Zhen's Twelve Poems of Yuefu, a New Topic of Li School Book, are as famous as Song of Eternal Sorrow. Its detailed description is beautiful and natural. The most distinctive poems in Yuan Dynasty are colourful poems and mourning poems.

in the fifth year of Yuanhe (81), Yuan Zhen was recalled and fined for playing Yinfang style in Henan (after the founding of Fang Xuanling, an important minister). After passing through Huazhou Fushui Post Station, he stayed in the upper hall of the post office, which coincided with the eunuchs Chou Shiliang and Liu Shiyuan, who also wanted to live in the upper hall. Yuan Zhen argued and argued, but he was scolded by Chou Shiliang. Liu Shiyuan even went forward and whipped Yuan Zhen with his whip, beating him bloody, and was finally driven out of the upper hall.

Later, Tang Xianzong demoted Yuan Zhen to join the army as an official of Jiangling Prefecture on the grounds that "Yuan Zhen belittled the prestige of trees and lost his constitutional style". Since then, he has lived in exile for more than ten years.

Yuan Zhen was exiled to Jing Man for nearly ten years because of his outstanding talent and generous personality. Yuan Zhen was ordered to send an envoy to Jiannan Dongchuan. He boldly and illegally played illegal officials and rehabilitated many unjust cases. During his six years as an observer in eastern Zhejiang, Yuan Zhen built water conservancy and developed agriculture, which made great achievements and won the support of the people.

Extended information:

Yuan Zhen is brilliant, with few talents. In the ninth year of Zhenyuan (793), after the Ming Dynasty, he was awarded the left to collect the remains, entered the river shogunate, was promoted as a school secretary, and moved to supervise the imperial history. At one time, under the planning of Li Fengji, he became the secretary of the same state and became the right minister of history.

in the fourth year of Taihe, he became our ambassador of Wuchang Army. In the fifth year of Taihe (831), he died at the age of fifty-three, and was posthumously presented to the right servant of Shangshu.

Yuan Zhen and Bai Juyi shared the same subject, became lifelong poetry friends, and * * * advocated the new Yuefu movement, known as "Yuan Bai" in the world, forming "Yuanhe Style". Poetry has made great achievements, with shallow words and sorrowful meanings, gripping people's hearts and touching them. The creation of Yuefu poems was influenced by Zhang Ji and Wang Jian, and the "new topic Yuefu" came directly from Li Shen.

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