Liu Zongyuan initiated with Han Yu and others? Ancient prose movement? , which was still in vogue at that time, was greatly opposed. They thought that this kind of prose was artificial, only paying attention to the gorgeous style and demanding the elegance and delicacy of the words, but ignoring the expression of their own feelings, sticking to the form and being boring.
so Liu Zongyuan advocated? Ming Dow is the writer? He emphasized that the creation of an article should have the expression of the author's personal inner feelings and inner consciousness, reflect the author's personal character, and not become a puppet who blindly follows. In addition, he also stressed that the article should? Practical use? Focus on reality and avoid it? Fake sky? The phenomenon of, thus promoting the society. At the same time, he did not completely reject the meaning of parallel prose, thinking that the article also needs to learn certain format and expression skills, emphasizing the need to learn useful parts from it, so that the two aspects can be unified and complementary. Second, Liu Zongyuan is famous for "Eight Chapters of Yongzhou". In his landscape travel notes, he can feel the combination of the author's inner feelings and scenery, and express his own unfortunate experience and bitter experience, so that the whole landscape is no longer a simple scenery, but has become the author's spiritual support and an independent soul. In the process of mutual blending, it shows a unique aesthetic feeling. This is also Liu Zongyuan's good practice of his own advocacy in literary creation.
In addition to his travels on mountains and rivers, Liu Zongyuan is also good at other styles, such as essays, fables, biographies, etc. His descriptions are delicate and profound, and he can also pay attention to society, such as The Snake Catcher, and feel the heavy taxes at that time, thus showing his emotional characteristics of worrying about the country and the people.