Ouyang Xiu was the first literary leader to create a generation of literary style in the literary history of the Song Dynasty. He led the poetry innovation movement in the Northern Song Dynasty, and inherited and developed Han Yu's ancient prose theory. His high achievements in prose creation and his correct theory of ancient prose complement each other, thus creating a generation of writing style. Ouyang Xiu not only changed the style of writing, but also innovated the style of poetry. In historiography, there are also high achievements.
Ouyang Xiu was the first literary leader to create a generation of literary style in the literary history of the Song Dynasty. He led the poetry innovation movement in the Northern Song Dynasty, and inherited and developed Han Yu's ancient prose theory. His high achievements in prose creation and his correct theory of ancient prose complement each other, thus creating a generation of writing style.
Ouyang Xiu not only changed the style of writing, but also innovated the style of poetry. He has also made great achievements in historiography. He once majored in the Book of the New Tang Dynasty and wrote the History of the New Five Dynasties alone. There is a collection of works handed down from ancient times by Ouyang Wenzhong.
The poetic innovation advocated by Ouyang Xiu is essentially aimed at the style of writing in the Five Dynasties and Kunxi style in the early Song Dynasty, but Ouyang Xiu's literary theory and creative practice are very different from those of retro literary critics since Liu Kai. Before Ouyang Xiu presided over the literary world, the style of writing represented by Kunxi style was severely criticized. Ouyang Xiu opposed "imperial academy Style" and "Quincy Style".
Ouyang Xiu has a new view on the relationship between literature and Taoism. First of all, Ouyang Xiu believes that Confucianism is closely related to real life. Secondly, Ouyang Xiu pays equal attention to literature and Taoism. In addition, he also believes that the text has an independent nature. ?
This idea of paying equal attention to literature and Taoism has two meanings: one is to regard literature as important as Taoism, and the other is to regard the artistic form of literature as important as ideological content, which undoubtedly greatly improves the status of literature. Liu Kai and others called on Han Yu to pay attention to his own orthodoxy, while Ouyang Xiu paid more attention to inheriting Han Yu's literary tradition.
Ouyang Xiu loved ancient Korean and Liu prose since childhood. Later, when he wrote ancient prose, he followed the example of Han and vitamin, but he didn't blindly worship ancient prose. He absorbed the literary talent of Han and Liu's ancient prose, but abandoned their strange interest and metaphysical tendency.
At the same time, Ouyang Xiu did not completely deny the artistic achievements of parallel prose, but also praised Yang Yi and others for their "erudite writing and powerful free writing". In this way, Ouyang Xiu not only corrected the bias of Liu Kai and Shi Jie in theory, but also corrected some shortcomings of Han and Liu's ancient prose, which established the correct guiding ideology for the poetry innovation in the Northern Song Dynasty and opened up broad prospects for the development of ancient prose in the Song Dynasty.
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