Wang Zao studied poetry from Xu Fu in his early years, and worshipped Han Ju as a teacher after middle age. However, his poems are similar to those of Su Shi, without touching the habits of Jiangxi Poetry School. Poetry touches on current events and has far-reaching interests. Wang Zao is good at writing four or six essays, and he wrote the letters and letters at the beginning of Dunan. The writing style is inspiring, which is often mentioned by people at that time and compared to Lu Zhi. "The Empress Dowager's Calligraphy of the World" and "The German Sound on November 3 rd, Three Years of Advice" are his representative works.
The origin of the text:
Originated in the late Han Dynasty, formed and prevailed in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. It appears alternately with four characters and six characters, and is called "Liu Siwen" in the world. In the Tang Dynasty, scholars were selected by poems, and their fu was a law fu derived from parallel prose. The official documents of the Tang Dynasty are also parallel prose, that is, four or six styles.
Parallel prose often affects the content expression by accommodating sentence patterns and piling up rhetoric. After Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan advocated the ancient prose movement, parallel prose suffered setbacks for the first time. After the death of Han and Liu, their influence rose again. Li Shangyin, Wen and Duan are among them, ranking 16th, so they are called "Thirty-six Style".
After entering the Song Dynasty, under the leadership of Ouyang Xiu and others, the ancient prose movement reached its second climax, with numerous essays and parallel prose gradually declining.