Wang Bo (649 or 650-675 or 676) was born in Longmen, Jiangzhou (now Hejin, Shanxi). There are more than 80 of his poems today, most of which are five-character poems and quatrains. "However, as long as China keeps our friendship, heaven will still be our neighbor" is a famous sentence of Du Shaofu's poem Ren Shuchuan.
Yang Jiong (650-? ), Huayin (now Shaanxi) people. Today, he has 33 poems, which are famous for frontier poems, such as joining the army, going out to the fortress, and the battle of the south of the city.
Lu (about 636- 695) was born in Fanyang, Youzhou (now Zhuoxian, Hebei). His poems are the best in singing, and his masterpiece is Chang 'an Ancient Meaning.
Luo (about 626 or 627- about 684) was born in Yiwu, Wuzhou, Zhejiang. He was good at seven-character songs, and Jingdi was called the swan song at that time. There are also masterpieces in the Five Laws, such as A Political Prisoner Listening to Cicada.
The four outstanding figures are equally famous, mainly referring to parallel prose and fu. "Biography of Pei Xingjian in Old Tang Dynasty" said that they were "famous for their articles" and so on, referring to articles. There is a phrase "Wang Yang and his contemporaries" in Du Fu's Six Plays, which is generally considered to refer to their poems.
The rankings of the four outstanding figures are also inconsistent. Song's Essay on Sacrificing Du said that after the founding of the Tang Dynasty, "Wang Luo" reappeared, and commenting on the poems of four outstanding poets in this order is the earliest known material. Zhang said in To the Tombstone, the Maharaja: "When Cao Xuan was elected, he saw Luo,,, and Yang Jiong", with Luo as the head. Du Fu's poem "Wang Luzuo at that time", one is "Wang Yang Luo Lu"; The Biography of Pei Xingjian in the Old Tang Dynasty was also prefaced by Wang Yang Luo Lu.
Although Si Jie's poems have not got rid of the habit of pursuing beauty since Qi Liang, they have initially presented a brand-new atmosphere. Their poems, from the court to the society, have a wide range of themes and delicate styles. Lu and Luo's seven-character songs tend to be ci-fu, and the momentum is getting stronger; Wang and Yang's five-character rhythm began to be standardized, and the tone was sonorous. Parallel prose is also full of flexibility and vividness in ci. Four outstanding figures are the figures in the early Tang literary world in the transitional period between the old and the new.