Han Yu, the greatest essayist after Sima Qian, was "the decline of eight generations of literature". His prose, a hundred schools of thought contend, is superb, and always shines with the brilliance of unique spirit, which is refreshing. The author divides his prose into three categories: argumentative, narrative and lyrical, and tries to analyze its artistic characteristics.
1. This is a remarkable feature of political theory. Argumentative essays account for a large proportion in Han Yu's prose. Among them, there are essays such as "Hunger for the People" and "The Original Road" that focus on expressing their social views and outlook on life, as well as essays that satirize the dark status quo of society. These works are magnificent, ups and downs, and sometimes they see strange peaks, but they are unpredictable at the junction. I think the reason why Han Yu's argumentative essay can be like this is that he is good at organizing all kinds of materials organically and forming internal strict logic; Second, "if there is injustice, it will sound", and the discussion contains strong emotional color; Third, reasoning focuses on the use of vivid facts to make the article irrefutable. For example, Shi Shuo adopts the method of combining total score, positive and negative comparison and repeated argumentation, with vertical and horizontal brushwork and fine shelves, which has indisputable logical power; Zashuo IV focuses on discovering, cherishing and using talents. Taking the tangible image as an example, it is ups and downs and progressive step by step, making the full text coherent. It is another feature of Han Yu's argumentative essays to adopt different expressions according to different objects and different exposition contents, so as to enhance the argumentation effect. For example, "Answer to Li Yishu" has a kind tone, twists and turns, and smooth laminar flow; "Jin Xuejie" uses traditional self-mockery to express resentment against his talent. In writing, vivid metaphors, contrast and antithesis, irony and irony are sometimes used, which are more common in graceful songs and show strong argumentation.
2. Vivid images and rich literary spirit-superb narrative skills. Han Yu wrote many biographies, lines, epitaphs, epitaphs and other narratives. At that time, this kind of articles had their own procedures, and it was easy to be similar when they were written, but Han Yu wrote his own characteristics with his strong talent. He is good at capturing and describing the characteristics that best reflect the mental outlook of characters, thus highlighting their personalities and sketching vivid images one by one. For example, the images of Zhang Xun and Xu Yuan in Biography of Zhang Zhongcheng are vivid and touching, and vivid images and rich style of writing attach great importance to the recording of materials. For example, Mao Ying's biography, with its patchwork, strange choice and humor, won the historical records.
3. Sincerity comes from the heart-a unique lyric style. Many of Han Yu's mourning poems, mourning poems, prefaces and postscripts, such as Ode to Twelve Lang and Ode to Liu Zi Hou Wen, are rare works in lyric prose. They use scattered sentences or traditional Chinese characters to express their feelings from the heart and express one song and three sighs to the fullest.
Han Yu's prose is unique in narrative, argumentative and lyrical. He not only broke the procedures of various styles, but also broke the boundaries of various genres, and integrated narrative, discussion and lyric into one furnace, so that the article touched people's hearts from different angles. In terms of language, he is good at absorbing the essence of the language in his predecessors' works, integrating and innovating, which greatly enriches China's language treasure house. In a word, Han Yu's works enriched Tang Wenhua in the prosperous Tang Dynasty and left us a splendid cultural heritage. His thoughts and viewpoints promoted the ideological progress of the society at that time and became an outstanding figure in the history of China literature.
Han Yu is the biggest essayist after Sima Qian. The basic style of Han Yu's prose is full of emotion, bold style, sharp brushwork and appropriate words, which forms a unique majestic and bold momentum and abundant logical power.
Different types of prose have different styles:
(1) The argumentative essay is magnificent, open and closed vertically and horizontally, with eloquent arguments. It is good at using comparison, parallelism, metaphor, irony and other means to enhance the argumentative power of the article.
(2) Essays satirize reality, expose contradictions, and are sharp and incisive. It is long or short, solemn or harmonious, laughing and cursing, strange and strange, with an anti-vulgar and anti-traditional power, and a strong emotional tendency mixed in the writing. Such as essays, learning solutions, etc.
(3) Narrative inherits and develops the tradition of note writers in Historical Records and Hanshu, and is good at choosing typical real events and details to highlight the main characters, and expressing the author's strong feelings of love and hate in objective narration. Such as the biography of Zhang Zhongcheng and the epitaph of Liu Zihou;
(4) Lyrics are mainly found in mourning poems and letters. These works are lyrical, narrative and argumentative, with strong feelings and strong artistic appeal. Such as "Sacrificing Twelve Lang Wen".