China's ancient prose was stereotyped in the Song Dynasty. Among the eight masters in Tang and Song Dynasties, Song occupied the sixth place. At the same time, famous artists came forth in large numbers, and groups mushroomed. They are unique, fighting for new territory and jointly building a prosperous landscape for the development of Song literature. Compared with the prose in Tang Dynasty, the prose in Song Dynasty has the following characteristics: in content, it is closely combined with reality, and there are many political and Taoist articles, among which there is a strong sense of urgency and crisis; Style tends to be simple and natural; In artistic expression, he likes to discuss and is good at discussing, and some political and historical theories are often used as an excuse. Generally speaking, the prose in Song Dynasty is mainly ancient prose, which realizes the comprehensive artistry of practical articles and achieves a high degree of unity of practical value and aesthetic value. First of all, Liu Kai and Wang Yucheng advocated the creation of ancient Chinese prose and tried their best to eliminate the flashy and difficult writing style. Wang Yucheng's prose is realistic, simple, natural and lively, and a new style of writing is gradually emerging in the Song Dynasty. It is Ouyang Xiu, his successor literary leader, who can thoroughly clean up the floating wind of Quincy School and the crisis of imperial academy. Ouyang Xiu's style of writing is simple and elegant, natural and delicate, and his language is concise and concise, which establishes the development direction of Song Style. At the same time, he unites others and returns to others, forming a strong lineup of ancient Chinese sports. In the meantime, Ceng Gong is simple and elegant, and he is not outspoken; Wang Anshi's writing style is tortuous, he talks about fine police, and his pen is strong; Su Xun is good at strategy and theory, heroic and vigorous, arrogant and domineering; Su Zhe is good at writing, has a good memory, is indifferent, deep and mellow. Su Shi is another outstanding literary leader after Ouyang Xiu, as well as Korea, Liu and Europe, representing the highest achievement. Su Wen runs through ancient and modern times, criss-crossing, freely accepting and releasing, with myriad gestures and new ideas, which has played a decisive role in promoting the maturity and finalization of the main style of ancient prose in Song Dynasty and established the authentic position of ancient prose in prose creation at one fell swoop. Most writers in the late Northern Song Dynasty continued along the road pioneered by Europe and the Soviet Union.
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2. Prose in the early Song Dynasty: Liu Kai and Wang Yucheng.
In the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, after the establishment of the Song Dynasty, the literary world still pursued the aesthetic fashion of the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties: parallel prose with beautiful rhetoric and thin content was very popular, and Kunxi style flooded the literary world, with the appearance of "Song Xing has been studying the style of the article for five seasons, engraved with parallel prose and flowers" (Appendix IV of Ouyang Wenzhong's Gongji and Biography of Ouyang Xiu in the Four Dynasties).
The earliest people who stood up against the writing style of the Five Dynasties were Liang, Liu Kai and Mu Xiu, among whom Liu Kai was the most famous. Liu Kai takes it as his duty to respect Han and promote Liu and change the atmosphere. "My Tao is the Tao of Confucius, Mencius, Yang Xiong and Han Yu; My article, "Tao, Confucius, Mencius, and Han" (English Taoism), which combines orthodoxy with literary orthodoxy, had a far-reaching impact on later classical writers and neo-Confucianism, and was of positive significance at that time. Liu Kai also regarded literature as a tool of Ming Dow, so he opposed the gorgeous style of writing. This thought should have played a role in correcting the flashy style of writing in the Five Dynasties in the early Song Dynasty. However, Liu Kai overemphasized the importance of Tao and neglected literary talents. His so-called "Tao" only refers to "the way of sages", which easily makes literature a vassal of orthodoxy. Besides, Liu Kai is a rude and crazy person. In order to oppose parallel prose, the articles are artificially uneven, simple and rough, and difficult to attract people. Therefore, despite his loud voice, few people responded and did not have a practical impact on the literary world. Liu Kai also said to himself very annoyingly: "Standing on the street will be spread all over the world. Don't worry about being moved, hating it, squeezing it and rejecting it." ("You Yu Shu")
Wang Yucheng was a writer with great achievements in prose creation in the early Song Dynasty. It can be said that Wang Yucheng was a key figure connecting Du Libaihan in Tang Dynasty and Europe and the Soviet Union in Song Dynasty, and he was also the first person to form the mainstream of poetry in Song Dynasty. Wang Yucheng also emphasized the relationship between literature and Tao, but he did not regard Tao as a purely external dogmatic concept, but linked it with his own internal pursuit and personal temperament, so the scope of application of literature was wider than that of Liu Kai. At the same time, he advocated Yi Dao's Yi-ology, not excluding literary talents, and advocating innovation. Some of his excellent ancient articles and sentences have inherited the traditions of Korea and Liu, but their writing style is relatively simple, showing the clue of a new style of writing. All the great writers in the Song Dynasty valued Wang Yucheng, whose influence continued until the Qing Dynasty.
It says here that the highest one is Wang Yucheng, hehe, I don't know which one to press. Ouyang Xiu can be said to be a person in the early Northern Song Dynasty.