Wang Zao
The forty-six famous scholars in the early Southern Song Dynasty include Wang Zao, Sun Zhan, Hong Shi, Zhou Bida and others, among whom Wang Zao's achievements are the most outstanding.
Introduction
Wang Zao studied poetry from Xu Fu in his early years, and became a disciple of Han Ju after his middle age. However, his poems did not follow the habits of the Jiangxi Poetry School and were similar to Su Shi's. . The poems often touch on current events and have far-reaching implications. For example, in "Four Poems Sent to Your Nephew by the Envoy to Changzhou after the Jiyou Rebellion": "The land of Huaihai has been in ruins for hundreds of years." , so depressed and angry that he seemed to be helped by Du Fu. "A Journey to the Peach Blossoms" is a unique piece after the same title written by Wang Wei, Han Yu, Liu Yuxi and Wang Anshi. "You know there is youth in the plains, but it only belongs to ordinary people who hide from the world." This shows that his idea is novel. Poems about landscapes such as "Spring Day" were also circulated and recited for a while.
Wang Zao was good at writing four or six essays, and he wrote all the imperial edicts and imperial edicts for the first time when he was crossing south. His writing was insightful and inspiring, and was often recited by contemporaries. He was compared to Lu Zhi. "The Empress Dowager's Letter to the World" and "Deyin on November 3rd, the Third Year of Jianyan" are his masterpieces. In his preface to the collection, Sun Zhan praised him as a great writer, saying that he was "brilliant, profound, and outstanding in the world." Emperor Gaozong of the Song Dynasty rewarded him with a white ball fan for his own use, and wrote a cross with the words "The purple imperial edict is still tied, and the jute is like the Six Classics".