1. Liu Yuxi treats life with sadness but not sadness, resentment but no regrets, never sinks or becomes decadent.
2. In Liu's poems, one can feel that the irony is more pungent and his attitude is more stubborn.
3. Liu Zongyuan is not only a famous writer and thinker, but also an ordinary person with complex psychological activities and rich emotions. By exploring his personality and character along his poems, you may be able to increase your understanding of him from another perspective. The so-called personality refers to the sum of relatively stable and important psychological characteristics of an individual, which includes factors such as personality tendencies, temperament, character, and abilities. The formation of a person's personality is not only affected by social factors such as the times, national culture, class, etc., but also depends on one's own unique psychological quality and life experience. Therefore, as far as people living in the same national cultural atmosphere are concerned, their personalities always have both sex and individuality. The same is true for Liu Zongyuan. In him, he has the same characteristics as the Confucian intellectuals and also has unique features.
Liu Zongyuan’s personality tendency Personality tendency refers to the individual consciousness tendency formed under certain social and historical conditions. It is directly related to the level of personality. When you are alive, you must pursue something: the low-level pursuit is the pursuit of material, and the high-level pursuit is the desire to realize the value of life. The ancients had different understandings of the value of life. Taoism advocated a transcendental philosophy of being pure and few desires, while Confucianism advocated a worldly philosophy of "establishing a heart for the heaven and earth, establishing a destiny for the living and the people, and inheriting the unique knowledge of the past sages." The positive significance of Confucian philosophy of entering the world is that it can attract readers to the track of contributing to the country and society. The country needs knowledgeable and insightful people to govern, and intellectuals need to be officials to display their talents and learning. Therefore, scholars of all ages have almost regarded becoming an official as the only way out in life. The idols of Confucianism are Yao, Shun, Yu, Tang, Wenwu, and Zhou Kong. Practicing the way of saints and assisting kings in building the legacy of Yao and Shun has become the dream of many Confucian scholars. Especially when they compare current affairs and see various shortcomings, their sense of responsibility and mission becomes even stronger. Liu Zongyuan, who came from a noble family, was influenced by his family since he was a child, so he was inevitably led to this path. Although he had outstanding articles and was good at calligraphy, he believed that these were not as important as politics. He devoted himself to politics, "assisted the time and things as the way", and became a famous minister who governed the country and benefited the people.