Liu Zongyuan, with a thick word, was born in Hedong County, Han nationality, and was known as Mr. Liu Hedong and Mr. Hedong. Liu Liuzhou, also known as Liu Liuzhou and Liu Yuxi, was the official secretariat of Liuzhou. Writers, philosophers, essayists and thinkers in the Tang Dynasty. Liu Zongyuan and Han Yu * * * advocated the ancient prose movement in the Tang Dynasty, and they were called Liu Yuxi, Wang Wei, Meng Haoran and Wei.
Liu Zongyuan left more than 600 poems in his life, and his achievements in writing were greater than poems. Nearly a hundred parallel essays, argumentative essays, sharp and ironic. There are many places where scenery is described in travel notes, such as Collection of Mr. Hedong, with representative works such as Xiju, Jiang Xue and Fisherman.
Literary features:
1, poetry
There are more than 140 poems written by Liu Zongyuan, which is one of the few in the Tang Dynasty, but many of them have been handed down from generation to generation. On the basis of his unique life experience, thoughts and feelings, he drew lessons from the artistic experience of his predecessors, exerted his creative talent, created a unique artistic style, and became an outstanding poet representing one school at that time.
2. Prose
Liu Zongyuan's prose is as famous as Han Yu's. Han and Liu, together with Ouyang Xiu and Su Shi in Song Dynasty, are called the eight great poets in Tang and Song Dynasties, and they are the most outstanding essayists in China history. In the middle Tang Dynasty, Liu Zongyuan and Han Yu initiated and led an ancient prose movement in the literary world, and they put forward a series of ideological theories and literary propositions.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Liu Zongyuan