The development of the poetry innovation movement in the Northern Song Dynasty can be roughly divided into three stages.
1, the early Northern Song Dynasty was the brewing stage:
Quincy style is all the rage, "Liu Yang style, stirring the world". The first is Gao, Liang, Liu, who all advocate stylistic innovation. Among them, Liu Kai's theoretical viewpoint is the clearest and most enlightening, and Liu Kai's propaganda is Liu Han's ancient tradition in China.
He was the first reformer in the Northern Song Dynasty who proposed to get rid of the disadvantages of writing in the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties and restore the ancient Chinese and Liu prose. Emphasize the decisive significance of Tao to the text, attach importance to the ideological nature of the article, and emphasize the feudal enlightenment function of the article.
Follow Liu Kai, Yu Wang said. In his thesis, he advocates preaching and understanding as well as plain language. Although it was still a feudal Confucian, it was different from Liu Kai's feudal ethics. He emphasized that Confucianism should actively join the WTO and care about the sufferings of people's livelihood, and his "Tao" is the ideological basis of political achievements. What it advocates is "preaching and teaching to solve doubts", which has obvious positive significance for reforming the current disadvantages.
2. The mid-Northern Song Dynasty was a climax:
Muxiu, Fan Zhongyan and Shijie were the first people who rose up against Quincy style. With Hemei as the backbone and backbone, it laid the overall style of Yi Xiaochang's poetry civilization in the Song Dynasty. "Plain" style is their ultimate artistic pursuit. "Poetry is ancient and modern, but it is plain and difficult to make." (Mei Yao Chen)
3. Deep development period:
Poetry and prose works: Wang Anshi, Su Shi, Su Zhe, Ceng Gong and others have profound attainments in all aspects of poetry and prose, and literature serves the world (Wang Anshi) and the beauty of seeking things.
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1. The achievements and influence of the poetry and prose innovation movement in the Northern Song Dynasty are mainly reflected in two aspects: "Tao" and "Wen". As far as "Tao" is concerned, whether innovators understand "Tao" as the way of Confucius and Mencius, as the way to help the world, or as a reference to a wide range of real life, they all emphasize the content of poetry. As a result of the innovation movement of poetry and prose, various styles have made outstanding achievements.
2. Achievements and influence: six famous prose writers: Su San, Ouyang Xiu, Wang Anshi and Ceng Gong; During the Northern Song Dynasty, the poetic innovation movements of Mei, Ouyang Xiu, Wang Anshi, Su Shi and Huang Tingjian not only directly influenced the poetic creation of the Southern Song Dynasty, but also played a guiding role in the development of the Southern Song literature. At the same time, his theoretical views and the demonstration significance of his works influenced the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties.