Yu Xin was a poet and writer in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Yu Xin, Zi Zi Shan, Xiao Zi Lan Cheng. A native of Xinye County, Nanyang County (now Xinye County, Nanyang City, Henan Province). Writers in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. His family has "Seven Generations of Scholars" and "Five Generations of Anthology", and his father Yu Jianwu is the secretary of Nanliang and a famous literary talent.
Major achievements:
1 literature.
Yu Xin's literary creation can be divided into two periods, with his 42-year-old mission to the Western Wei Dynasty as the boundary. In the early period of Liang Dynasty, most of his works were palace-style, light and elegant, and full of beauty of words. After the Northern Dynasties' imprisonment, poetry and Fu both expressed a lot of homesickness and sadness about life experience, and their styles also changed into vigorous sadness.
2. politics.
When Yu Xin served as the secretariat of Luozhou in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, his administration was short and quiet, which made the officials and people get peace and made great achievements. In Preface to Yu Xin Ji, the word Wendi compares his popularity with Ji Guo, a famous minister in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and Likas, a famous minister in the Western Jin Dynasty.
Character evaluation: Yu Xin is a character in the history of China literature. No one can compare with Bao Zhao in the Northern Dynasties. At that time, there was a saying of "Yu Xu style". At that time, people juxtaposed Xu Ling with it, but in fact, Xu Ling's achievements were below it. Yu Xin is one of the prolific writers in the history of China literature, and he has made great achievements in poetry and prose.
His poems and Fu also occupy an important position in the history of China Fu. It is different from the Sao Fu of predecessors and the law Fu of later generations. In the Han Dynasty, he turned prose into parallel prose, which made Fu more formal and developed to a new stage. At the same time, Yu Xin also advocated the Tang people to write poems into Fu, which influenced the parallel prose of He Luo in the Tang Dynasty. Parallel prose flourished in the Six Dynasties, and Yu Xin was a master.
Yu Xin is the most famous poet who goes from south to north. He has suffered the bitter life peculiar to the split era, but he has achieved the literary fruit of "being poor in the north and winning in the south". His literary achievements show the prospect of the integration of North and South styles.