Why are the "four outstanding poets" the pioneers of poetry innovation in the early Tang Dynasty?

The contribution of the four outstanding poets in the early Tang Dynasty to the development of poetry: 1. In the history of Tang poetry, they are pioneers who dare to reform the poetic style of Qi and Liang Dynasties. Tang Taizong likes palace poems, and his poems are mostly romantic, with obvious traces of Qi Liang's palace poems. Shangshuling Shangguan Yi also inherited the legacy of Sui Chen, and his works were all the rage, and scholars rushed to follow suit, which was called "Shangguan Style" in the world.

2. When Qi Liang's formalistic poetic style still dominated the poetic world, the "Four Masters" stepped forward. Wang Bo first stood up against this unhealthy trend in the early Tang Dynasty, and then the other three also stood up in response and joined in the creative activities against "Shangguan Style".

3. They tried to break through the cage of the legacy of Qi and Liang Dynasties and the "official style", and moved poetry from a narrow palace to a vast market, from a narrow pavilion to a vast border of mountains and rivers, which opened up the theme of poetry, enriched the content of poetry, endowed poetry with new vitality, improved the ideological significance of poetry at that time, showed a new poetic style, and promoted the healthy road of poetry in the early Tang Dynasty.

Luo, Yang Jiong and Lu were four outstanding poets in the early Tang Dynasty, and they were also brilliant poets in the middle and late Tang Dynasty. They became famous early and gained the reputation of "four outstanding poets" in their youth.