He was a famous writer, philosopher, essayist and thinker in China in the Tang Dynasty. Together with Han Yu, he advocated the ancient prose movement in Tang Dynasty, which was called "Liu Han". Also known as "Liu Liu" with Liu Yuxi. Also known as "Wang Meng" with Wang Wei, Meng Haoran and Wei.
With Han Yu, Ouyang Xiu, Su Xun, Su Shi, Su Zhe, Wang Anshi and Ceng Gong in the Tang Dynasty, they are also called "the eight masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties", and they are the second of the eight masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties. He has more than 600 poems in his life, and his achievements are greater than poems.
Nearly a hundred parallel essays, argumentative essays, sharp and ironic. Travel notes about mountains and rivers are entrusted to many places. Most of his poems express depression, grief, homesickness and friendship, and are deep and gloomy, forming their own family.
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When Liu Zongyuan was born, the Anshi Rebellion had just been settled 10 years. Although there was a brief peace for 10 years, the Tang Dynasty had already passed its peaceful and prosperous times and gradually declined. Various social contradictions developed rapidly in the Tang Dynasty.
After the mid-Tang Dynasty, various social abuses, such as the separatist regime of the buffer region, the eunuch's autocratic power and the clique's struggle for power, were taking shape. Liu Zongyuan's family is a family with strong cultural atmosphere. At the age of four, his father went south, and his mother Lushi led him to live in Jingxi Manor.
Lu is a Buddhist, intelligent, virtuous, knowledgeable and has a certain cultural accomplishment. She taught young Liu Zongyuan to recite fourteen ancient poems. The mother's enlightenment education made Liu Zongyuan have a strong interest in knowledge. Lushi is diligent in housekeeping and educating his children.
When I fled to the south in my early years, I would rather starve myself than support my relatives. Later, Liu Zongyuan offended the relegated official, and his mother followed her son to the South Emperor in her later years without complaint. She is a typical wife and mother.
She embodies many virtues of ancient women in China. Liu Zongyuan was influenced by his mother's good personality since childhood. In the first year of Zhenyuan (AD 785), Jin Ryu went to Jiangxi as an official.
After that, Liu Zongyuan traveled with his father. I have been to a vast area from Changsha in the south to Jiujiang in the north. This experience brought Liu Zongyuan into direct contact with the society and increased his knowledge.
From then on, he began to participate in social activities, made friends widely, and was regarded as a gifted teenager. Soon, he returned to Chang 'an.
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