Lu (about 635-685), a native of Fanyang (now Zhuozhou, Hebei Province), was a poet in the early Tang Dynasty. He, Yang Jiong and Luo are also called "four outstanding figures in the early Tang Dynasty". There are seven volumes of Lu Shengji and You You Ji annotated by Zhang Xie in Ming Dynasty.
Lu is good at parallel prose poetry. His poems mainly express the anxiety and resentment of eunuchs who are unsatisfied, poor and sick, and also expose the arrogance and extravagance of the upper rulers, mocking their power and wealth.
Lu was born into a noble family. He signed the official seal for Wang Fu and later became the new captain of Yizhou. He is good at poetry, parallel prose and singing. Many good sentences can't be sung, such as "why did you quit after you succeeded?" Better be a mandarin duck than a fairy, etc., is praised as a classic by later generations.
Collected Works of Lu Literature, Books of Old Tang Dynasty and Collected Works of Rulers and Admirers contain 20 volumes of Lu You's collected works. Bibliography of Song Dynasty, such as Chongwen Mu Zong, has been recorded as 10 volume, and now it has been lost. Today, there are seven volumes of Lu Sheng Ji and Mourning for the Past, which were annotated by Zhang Xie in Ming Dynasty. The latter is the most popular, with four series of photocopies printed by Zhonghua Book Company in 1980.