Liu Gongquan (778-865) was born in Jingzhao Garden (now Yaozhou District, Tongchuan City, Shaanxi Province). An official, calligrapher and poet in the middle Tang Dynasty, the son of Liu Ziwen, the secretariat of Danzhou, and the younger brother of Liu Gongchu, the minister of war.
Liu Gongquan, a native of Liushi, Hedong, was the champion of Yuanhe in Tang Xianzong in 808. As a scholar for the first time, he entered the Li Painting and Calligraphy Institute. Liu Gongquan worked in the official residences of Mu Zong, Jing Zong and Wenzong, and grew up in North Korea.
He has served as a great official in the seven dynasties, a tired official, a prince, a county magistrate in Hedong, and was known as "Liu". In his later years, he became an official with Prince Taibao. In the sixth year of Xian Tong (865), Liu Gongquan died at the age of 88 and was given to the Prince.
Major literary works
Liu Gongquan's poems are eloquent, which Tang Wenzong called "seven steps to build, but only three steps to build". There are five poems of the whole Tang Dynasty, including one poem of the whole Tang Dynasty 1, and their works have also been included in The Whole Tang Dynasty and Tang Wen Ji.
In addition, Liu Gongquan also wrote Collection of Legendary Novels and Old News of Liu's Novels, also known as Old News of Novels and Old News of Novels. History of Song Dynasty, Art and Literature, six volumes.
At present, there are three volumes: Preaching, Tang People's Talks, Tang People's Series and Novels of the Five Dynasties, all of which are made into one volume, including three legends including Li Guishou, which also includes Taiping Guangji 196, and there is a note on "Three Waters Fishing".