1, Su Shi
Su Shi (1037—110/) was a writer, painter and gourmet in the Northern Song Dynasty. Zi yue Zhan, no Dongpo lay man. I have a bumpy career, profound knowledge, extremely high talent and excellent poetry, calligraphy and painting.
His prose "Wang Yang is Arbitrary" is also called Ou Su with Ouyang Xiu. His poems are fresh, vigorous and unique, and he is called Su Huang with Huang Tingjian. The words are bold and unconstrained, and they are called Su Xin with Xin Qiji; Calligraphy is good at running script and regular script, and the pen is ups and downs. With Huang Tingjian, Mitty and Cai Xiang, they are also called Song Sijia. Painting is the same as literature. In painting, we advocate spirit likeness and "literati painting".
2. Ouyang Xiu
Ouyang Xiu (1007— 1072), whose real name is Yongshu, is a drunkard, and later named "Liu Yiju". Han nationality, a native of Yongfeng, Jizhou (now Yongfeng County, Jiangxi Province), called himself "Ouyang Xiu of Luling" because Jizhou originally belonged to Luling County. Posthumous title Wenzhong, also known as Ouyang Wenzhong. Politicians, writers and historians in the Northern Song Dynasty, together with Han Yu, Liu Zongyuan, Wang Anshi, Su Tao, Su Shi, Su Zhe and Ceng Gong, are known as the "Eight Masters of Tang and Song Dynasties".
3. Liu Zongyuan
Liu Zongyuan (773-8 19), with thick words, was an outstanding poet, philosopher, Confucian scholar and even an outstanding politician in the Tang Dynasty, and was one of the eight masters in the Tang and Song Dynasties. Because he was from Hedong, he was called Liu Liuzhou, and because he was finally appointed as the secretariat of Liuzhou.
Liu Zongyuan and Han Yu were both leaders of the ancient prose movement in the middle Tang Dynasty, also known as "Liu Han". In the cultural history of China, his achievements in poetry and literature are extremely outstanding, which can be said to be inseparable for a while.
4. Han Yu
Han Yu (768~824) was a writer, philosopher and thinker in the Tang Dynasty. In Song Dynasty, Su Shi called him "the decline of eight generations of literature", and in Ming Dynasty, he was regarded as the first of the eight masters in Tang and Song Dynasties. He and Liu Zongyuan are also called "Liu Han" and are known as "literary masters" and "literary schools of one hundred generations". Han Yu is the founder of China's "orthodoxy" concept and a symbolic figure who respects Confucianism and opposes Buddhism.