Because Han Yu raised the banner of reviving Confucius and Mencius in the Tang Dynasty, he used Confucius and Mencius to revive the Tang Dynasty, eliminating the extravagant wind after the Anshi Rebellion, and even Han Yu had martial arts and heroism that literati lacked. In addition, he advocated removing the gorgeous decoration of parallel prose and paying more attention to the expressive ability of words in prose form.
Han Yu's initial life was hard. The wandering life from childhood did not make Han Yu lose confidence in life, but made him grow up through tempering. He knew from an early age that he was an orphan. If he wanted to get ahead, he had to study hard, but his fate was not as smooth as he imagined.
Since 19 years old, he has been taking part in scientific research and has been in Sun Shan. It was not until more than ten years later that he was qualified to be an official in North Korea. From then on, Han Yu's career was like riding a roller coaster. Because of the political struggle of various things, he was constantly demoted and reinstated.
Han Yu was the initiator of the ancient prose movement, which broke the 600-year cycle of parallel prose development from the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Sui Dynasty. Parallel prose is dual, gorgeous and attaches importance to phonology, but it is not practical. Liu Zongyuan said that parallel prose is a parallel prose with four wives, six beautiful hearts and one beautiful mouth. In the middle Tang Dynasty, Han Yu had to fight against Buddhism and Taoism. Parallel prose is not suitable for expressing Confucianism, so Han Yu borrowed parallel prose from the pre-Qin and Han dynasties and called it ancient prose.
Han Yu is also a master of poetry, and he pioneered poetry as a text. Poetry creation advocates introducing or borrowing prose's diction, syntax, composition and expression in poetry creation. The introduction of the grammar, syntax and expressive techniques of prose in poetry creation expanded the expressive forms of poetry and had a far-reaching influence on the formation of "taking words as teachers, discussing as poems and learning as poems" in the Song Dynasty. His poetry is closer to the characteristics of prose and has its own internal logical structure, which is different from traditional poetry.
Together with Liu Zongyuan, he initiated the ancient prose movement in articles and formed the "Han Meng Poetry School" with Meng Jiao in poetry. Han Yu's posthumous title is "Wen", and everyone respects Han Wengong. After becoming famous, Han Yu also strongly supported those who learned later. The evaluation in the Book of the New Tang Dynasty is: "Successful scholars are often famous, and the more they teach, the more they become Chinese disciples."
Start the movement of ancient literature, take literature as poetry, and create a new era of literature. As an outstanding thinker, he maintained the authority of Confucianism all his life. Politically, the central and local governments have been officials, fought wars, went deep into the tiger's den and completed major military tasks. We have always resolutely opposed the interference of Buddhism and Taoism in Confucianism. As a representative of the traditional Confucian "official", he practiced "benevolence and righteousness" with his own practical actions.
Throughout Han Yu's life, he is honest and rarely goes against his ideals. Therefore, it is known as the first of the eight masters in Tang and Song Dynasties in Ming Dynasty.