What kind of existence is Ouyang Xiu in the history of China literature?

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.