2. Ouyang Xiu was an official to a bachelor's degree in Hanlin, a deputy envoy of the Council, and participated in the discussion of state affairs. posthumous title Wenzhong was known as Ouyang Wenzhong in history. Tired of giving a surname and a duke of Chu. Together with Han Yu, Liu Zongyuan, Su Shi, Su Xun, Su Zhe, Wang Anshi and Ceng Gong, they are called "Eight Masters in Tang and Song Dynasties", and together with Han Yu, Liu Zongyuan and Su Shi, they are called "Four Masters through the ages".
3. Ouyang Xiu, born in Luling, Jizhou (now Ji 'an, Jiangxi), was a writer, historian and politician in the Northern Song Dynasty. Renzong, Yingzong and Zongshen Dynasties, bachelor of Hanlin, tang dynasty, participated in the discussion of state affairs. He actively participated in the political reform of the Qingli New Deal led by Fan Zhongyan. In literature, Ouyang Yong has made great achievements. He was the inheritor and promoter of the ancient prose movement advocated by Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan in the Tang Dynasty, and made great contributions to the development of ancient prose.
4. Before the mid-Song Dynasty, Ci Fu was just an official essay for examination, with a complicated and neat style. Ouyang Xiu has opened up a new road for Ci Fu. His works pay attention to verve, chant temperament, get rid of the shackles of past rules and regulations, and don't show off rich and ingenious words. The famous poem Ode to Autumn Sound, like Su Shi's Ode to the Red Wall, is as refined, as long-standing and well-known. Since then, the constraints of antithesis have been relaxed, and prose sentences have been used, forming a new prose genre.
5. Ouyang Xiu compiled the Book of the New Tang Dynasty and the History of the New Five Dynasties, both of which were listed as official history and created a new style. In the fourth year of Jiayou (1059), he was the editor of the history museum, and advocated that the history museum should be independent, not dominated by the monarch, and need not be shy. In bibliography, he participated in the compilation of Chongwen Catalogue. Besides, he and Su Xun are also famous for their genealogy. It was not until the early 20th century that China had to adopt the model of genealogy format. This is Ouyang Xiu's great contribution to social history.
6. There are 359 ancient poems and 470 modern poems in Ouyang Xiu's poems. His poetic style is peaceful and quiet, simple and fluent, with a wide range of themes. His poems are mainly based on prose and novel techniques, which makes the poetic style simple and fresh and lays the foundation for the Song Dynasty. Ouyang Xiu tried to "take prose as poetry" and speak freely like prose in the poetic rhythm, which laid the foundation for Wang Anshi, Su Shi and others.
7. Ouyang Xiu's most important contribution to literature was to advocate and develop ancient prose, which led the ancient prose movement in Song Dynasty. In theory, Ouyang Xiu, like Han Yu, thought that "Tao" was more important than "Wen", which influenced the literary theory of Song Dynasty. He successfully reformed the style of writing with empty content and flashy and difficult style since the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, changed customs and established the concept of attaching importance to morality and neglecting literature.