Ouyang Xiu lost his father at an early age and studied under the care of his widowed mother. Injong Tiansheng eight years (1030) Jinshi. The following year, he was appointed as an official of Xijing (now Luoyang) and became a close friend of Mei He, exchanging poems with each other. In the first year of Jingyou (1034), the bachelor's college was called, Xuandelang was appointed, and the pavilion was filled for collation. In the third year of Jingyou, Fan Zhongyan was demoted to Raozhou for criticizing the current politics in the previous chapter, and Ouyang Xiu defended him and was demoted to Yiling (now Yichang, Hubei) county magistrate. In the first year of Kangding (1040), Ouyang Xiu was recalled to Beijing, and was appointed as the proofreader of Guange, which was later called the suggestion court. In the third year of Li Qing (1043), Fan Zhongyan, Han Qi, Fu Bi and others promoted the "Qingli New Deal", and Ouyang Xiu participated in the innovation and put forward the idea of reforming the official administration, military affairs and tribute law. In five years, Fan, Han and Fu were successively demoted, and Ouyang Xiu was also demoted as the magistrate of Chuzhou (now Chuzhou, Anhui). Later, Yangzhou, Yingzhou (now Fuyang, Anhui) and Yingtianfu (now Shangqiu, Henan) were also known. In August, the first year of He Zhi (1054), he entered Beijing with a letter, and he was a fellow of Song Qi's New Tang Book. In February of the second year of Jiayou (1057), Ouyang Xiu presided over the Jinshi examination as a bachelor of Hanlin, advocated plain writing style, and admitted Su Shi, Su Zhe, Ceng Gong and others. This has a great influence on the change of writing style in the Northern Song Dynasty. In the fifth year of Jiayou (1060), Ouyang Xiu paid homage to the parliament. The following year, he was appointed to participate in political affairs. Later, he successively served as the minister of punishments and the minister of war. For two years (1065), the above post request is not allowed. In the following two or three years, he resigned many times because of being slandered by Jiang and others, but he was not allowed. In the second year of Zong Shenxi Ning (1069), Wang Anshi implemented the new law. Ouyang xiu opposed the young crops law and did not implement it. In the third year of Xining (1070), except for the post of ambassador of Taibao South Hospital, he insisted on not accepting it and changed the prefecture to Cai Zhou (now runan county, Henan). This year, he changed his name to "Six-One Lay Man". In June of the fourth year of Xining (107 1), he resigned as Prince Shao Shi and lived in Yingzhou. A pawn is Wen Zhong.
Ouyang Xiu was the leader of the poetry innovation movement in the Northern Song Dynasty. His literary achievements are the highest and most influential in his prose. He inherited the spirit of Han Yu's ancient prose movement and put forward Ming Dow's prose theory. He adopted the spirit of Han Yu's Preface to Literature, strongly advocated simple, neat, smooth and natural writing, and opposed flashy carving and eccentricity. He not only set out from reality, but also set an example with his outstanding creative achievements. Ouyang Xiu wrote more than 500 essays in his life, including political essays, historical essays, notes, lyric essays and notes, each with its own characteristics. Most of his essays are rich in content and magnificent, with a simple, natural, fluent and witty artistic style. The narrative is euphemistic and concise; The discussion is thoughtful, but full of internal logical power. Composite structures can be tortuous and very compact. The theory of cronies, the history of the New Five Dynasties, the biography of Lingguan, the admonition with Gauss, the preface to the drunken pavilion, the record of Fengle Pavilion, and the thousand watches of Longgang are all masterpieces that have been told through the ages. Ouyang Xiu also initiated the creation of notes in the Song Dynasty. His Records of Returning to the Field, Bi Shuo and Shi Bi are all famous. Ouyang Xiu's Fu is also very distinctive. The famous Ode to Autumn Sound uses various metaphors to describe the invisible autumn sound very vividly, making people seem to be audible. This paper changes the "metrical style" from the Tang Dynasty to "prose style", which is of pioneering significance to the development of Fu. Ouyang Xiu's poetry creation achievement is not as good as prose, but it is also very distinctive. Many of his poems reflect people's sufferings and expose the darkness of society. He also discusses current affairs in his poems and attacks corrupt politics. But he wrote more and more successful poems to express his personal feelings and scenery. His poems are mainly influenced by Han Yu in art, and in general, their styles are diverse. Ouyang Xiu is also good at poetry. In Preface to Mei Poetry, he put forward the idea that poetry should be written after poverty, which developed the poetic theories of Du Fu and Bai Juyi and had a great influence on the poetic creation at that time and later generations. His Poems on June 1st is the first poem in the history of China literature. It comments on poetry in a casual and intimate way and becomes a new form of poetry conversation. Ouyang Xiu is also good at lyrics, and his main contents are still lovesickness, drinking drunken songs, cherishing spring and enjoying flowers. And he is particularly good at writing landscapes and expressing his feelings with fresh and sparse brushwork. There are some colorful words, although they are written about dating between men and women, which are simple and vivid. Ouyang Xiu has made great achievements in Confucian classics, history and epigraphy. He studied The Book of Songs, The Book of Changes and The Spring and Autumn Annals, and put forward his own unique views. Historical attainments are deeper than Confucian classics. He not only participated in the compilation of the 250-volume Book of the New Tang Dynasty, but also wrote the History of the New Five Dynasties, summarizing the historical experience of the Five Dynasties, in order to serve as a warning. He was diligent in collecting and sorting out stone products and inscriptions from the Zhou Dynasty to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and edited them into a special archaeological data set-Jigulu. Ouyang Xiu plays an important role in the history of China literature. He vigorously advocated the poetry innovation movement, reformed the formalism style of writing and poetry from the late Tang Dynasty to the early Song Dynasty, and achieved remarkable results. Because of his political status and great achievements in prose creation, his position in the Song Dynasty was similar to that of Han Yu in the Tang Dynasty. He recommended and guided Wang Anshi, Ceng Gong, Su Xun, Su Shi, Su Zhe and other essayists, which had a great influence on their prose creation. His plain style of writing has always influenced the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. Ouyang Xiu's works are the complete works of Ouyang Wenzhong, and his life stories are supplemented by the Complete Works of Lu Wenzhong's Chronicle, a poet of the Song Dynasty. In addition, Yang Ximin's Chronicle of Ouyang Wenzhong in Qing Dynasty and Hua Jiheng's Chronicle of Updating Ouyang Wenzhong.