His representative work is Shi Shuo. His excellent articles include Miscellaneous Essays, Ruin, Learning Solution, Reply to Liu Zhengfu, Preface to Send Meng Dongye, Sacrifice to Twelve Langs, Preface to Send Yuan Lee to Pangu, Biography of Zhang Zhongcheng and so on. In addition, he also wrote Epitaph of Liu Zihou, Wen Ji Liu Zihou, Hua Ji, Answering Li Xiangshu, The Original Road, The Original Destruction, The Original Nature, On People's Hunger in Drought, On the Table of Buddha's Bones, Seeing the Poor, and Pinghuai Xibei, etc. His poems mainly include: Rocks, Bianzhou Chaos, Nanshan, Shigu Song, Luhun Mountain Fire, Eclipse, Title Bianliang, Title Dianliang, Title Chuwang Temple, on the festival of the moon to sub-official zhang, Left Moving to Languan to Show My Grandnephew Xiang,
main achievements: advocating the ancient prose movement
Introduction: prose writing theories such as "speaking with vigour and appropriateness", "doing things to express words" and "following words in order";
Han Yu is an advocate of the ancient prose movement, advocating inheriting the prose tradition of the pre-Qin and Han dynasties, and opposing the parallel prose which only focuses on the antithesis of rhythm and ignores the content. Han Yu's articles are magnificent, thorough and logical, and are regarded as the first of the "eight masters in Tang and Song Dynasties". At that time, people had the reputation of "Korean". Du Mu juxtaposes Korean with Du Shi, which is called "Du Shi Han Bi". Su Shi called him "the decline of eight generations of literature." The ancient prose movement advocated by Han Liu has opened up the development path of ancient prose since the Tang Dynasty. Korean poetry strives for novelty, emphasis on momentum and originality. Han Yu took prose as poetry, and introduced new ancient Chinese language, rules and techniques into poetry circles, which enhanced the expressive function of poetry, expanded the field of poetry, and corrected the mediocre poetic style since Dali (766-78). In terms of feudal ideology and morality, he also made unique achievements, vigorously advocated Confucianism, claimed to inherit the Confucian orthodoxy, and pioneered the Neo-Confucianism in the Song and Ming Dynasties.
Han Yu was an advocate of the ancient prose movement in the Tang Dynasty, and was honored by later generations as the head of the "Eight Masters of Tang and Song Dynasties". He was also called "Han Liu" with Liu Zongyuan, and was known as "the Great Man of Writing" and "the Hundred Generations of Literati". Later generations, together with Liu Zongyuan, Ouyang Xiu and Su Shi, called it "the four great writers of the ages". His prose writing theories, such as "the unity of literature and Taoism", "speaking with vigour and appropriateness", "doing things well" and "following the words", are of great guiding significance to future generations. He is the author of The Collection of Han Changli.