Luo Yin’s representative works: "Collection of A and B", "Book of Slander", "Book of Liangtong"
Luo Yin (February 16, 833 - January 26, 910) , whose original name was Luo Heng and whose courtesy name was Zhaojian, was from Hangzhou Xincheng (now Xindeng Town, Fuyang District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province). Writer and thinker of Tang Dynasty.
Since entering the capital at the end of the 13th year of Tang Dazhong (859), he has participated in more than ten Jinshi examinations, but all failed and returned. He is known in history as "not ranked among the top ten". He changed his name to Luo Yin and lived in seclusion in Jiuhua Mountain. . In the third year of Guangqi's reign (887), he surrendered to Qian Liu, King of Wuyue, and served successively as Qiantang Ling, Si Xun Langzhong, and Geishi. He was known as Luo Geishi. Later Liang died in December of the third year of Kaiping (January 910) at the age of seventy-seven.
Luo Yin's main works include "Book of Slander" and "Book of Liangtong". The former exposed and criticized the society at that time very profoundly and had a strong combativeness; the latter proposed "benevolent government" and strived to A set of "Taiping Kuangji Techniques" was refined for use by people all over the world. His collection of poems includes "Collection of A and B", which is quite satirical to reality. He can be called the first satirical poet in China. He mostly uses spoken language and is widely circulated among the people.
Luo Yin's book is an attempt to refine a set of "Taiping Kuangji techniques" for use by people all over the world. Luo Yin's thoughts are mainly reflected in "Liangtong Shu" and "Slanderous Book". ?
Luo Yin's poems can be roughly divided into four types according to their themes: poems about history and nostalgia for ancient times, poems about remuneration and gifts, poems about sentimental travels and poems about objects and allegories. The genres are mainly seven-character rhymed poems and seven-character quatrains. Five-character rhymed poems, five-character quatrains and Yuefu poems are few in number and have low literary value. Among them, the seven-character rhymed poems and seven-character quatrains that praise history and recall the past are the most valued by later generations.