"Four outstanding writers in the early Tang Dynasty" is the collective name of four famous writers in the early Tang Dynasty, Yang Jiong, Lu, Luo.
Although the poems of the four masters have not lost their beauty since Qi Liang, they have initially reversed the literary atmosphere. At that time, it was clearly opposed to "official style" and "thinking about its disadvantages", which was supported by Lu and others (Preface to Yang Jiong).
Their poems reversed the decadent and flashy atmosphere of court poetry before the Tang Dynasty, expanded the theme of poetry from the narrow field of pavilions and affairs to the vast space of rivers and lakes, and endowed poetry with new vitality. Lu and Luo's seven-character songs tend to be ci-fu, with a slightly stronger momentum; Wang and Yang's five-character rhythm began to be standardized, and the tone was sonorous.
Parallel prose is also full of flexibility and vividness in ci. Lu Shiyong's "Poetry Mirror" said, "Wang Bo is rich in Gao Hua and Yang Jiong, and according to the neighboring algae, Tan Yi and Zi 'an are the best?" When I transferred to the early Tang Dynasty, I took the Six Dynasties. The "four outstanding figures" were outstanding figures in the early Tang literary world during the transition period between the old and the new.
They were all talented poets and poets in the middle and late Tang Dynasty. The four talented poets became famous early and gained the reputation of "four outstanding poets" in their youth.
They are famous poets with small official positions, young talents and high talents. They played a connecting role in the early Tang Dynasty, connecting Chen Liang and Shen Song. Among them, Lu and Luo Shange, Wang and Yang Shan have five laws. Later generations said that Tang poetry with both temperament and character was shaped from them.
They began to move poetry from the palace to the market, from Taige to Jiangshan and Saimo, with expanded themes and serious thoughts, and the form of five-character and eight-sentence rhythm poetry began to take shape.