The School of Tang and Song Dynasties was a school of prose in Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty, and its representatives were Wang, Wang, Mao Kun and Gui Youguang. Their basic point of view is to oppose replacing "Tao" with literary talent and advocate the tradition of "integration of literature and Taoism"
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Gui Youguang (150765438+1October 6th-15765438+February 7th) was called "Mr. Zhenchuan". Han nationality, a native of Xuanhuali (now Kunshan, Jiangsu), Kunshan County, Taicang Prefecture, Suzhou. Ming dynasty officials, essayists, ancient prose masters.
In the 19th year of Jiajing (1540), Gui Youguang was promoted to the imperial examination, and then took the exam, ranking first from the bottom eight times. He moved to Anting River in Jiading, where he studied and gave lectures and had many apprentices. In the thirty-third year of Jiajing (1554), when the Japanese made an insurrection, Gui Youguang went into the city to prepare for defense and wrote Yu Yu Yi. In the forty-fourth year of Jiajing (1565), Gui Youguang was a 60-year-old Jinshi, and passed the positions of Changxing magistrate, Shunde and Nanjing Taibu Temple. Therefore, he was called a "servant" and took part in the compilation of A Record of Sejong. Qin Long died in five years (157 1 year) at the age of 66.
Gui Youguang admired the ancient prose of Tang and Song Dynasties, and his prose style was simple and sincere. He is a representative writer of "Tang and Song School" in Ming Dynasty, and is called "Ouyang Xiu today". Later generations praised his prose as "plain language first" And Wang are also called "Jiajing Sanjie", and Hu is also called "Gui and Hu". He is the author of Collection of Mr. Zhenchuan and Records of Water Conservancy in Sanwu.