Hongwen in the Western Han Dynasty refers to great works and masterpieces.
It is also an article praising the policies of Jia Yi and Chao Cuo, the politicians in the early Western Han Dynasty. The styles of their articles are similar, with fluent writing and thorough reasoning. They express strong political enthusiasm in straightforward and passionate language. This creative method of combining reason with emotion and embodying emotion in reason has a certain influence on future generations of prose writers.
Jia Yi wrote "Political Policy" and "On Passing the Qin Dynasty", while Chao Cuo wrote "Virtuous Countermeasures", "Military Affairs" and "Guarding Borders and Encouraging Farmers". Lu Xun believed that these works "are all great works of the Western Han Dynasty, which have benefited future generations and have far-reaching benefits" ("Outline of the History of Chinese Literature").
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The source of Hongwen words:
Han Dynasty Yangxiong's "Taixuan·Wen": "Second Six: Hongwen has no rules and is arbitrary. Sichuan."
Sima Guang's Notes: "It is said that the flying of wild geese occasionally has the appearance of words, but it is impossible to do so. When encountering the river, it is just free."
"On" by Wang Chong of Han Dynasty. "Heng·Yiwen": "Hongwen is in the country, which is the test of the saintly world."
Yuan Dynasty Liu Si's "Reclusion in Tongyi·Poetry 2": "Ouyang Wenzhong studied Hongwen for a master's degree, Zonggong University Confucianism."
The poem "Traveling is Difficult" by Chen Zilong of the Ming Dynasty: "Although the great text has been left for thousands of years, the right and wrong are mostly unclear." The epitaph of Duke Yuan (Yuan Keli's son Yuan Shu) reads: "Now it is time to commemorate my nephew, and it is appropriate to make up for the etiquette. I pray that I will benefit Hongwen in order to achieve immortality."
Lu Xun's "Outline of the History of Chinese Literature" No. 7 Chapter: "Weiyi is especially talented in literature, while Shenshi is less talented, such as his "Policy for Public Security" and "On Passing the Qin Dynasty", and Ni Cuo's "Sages of Virtuous Countermeasures", "Speeches on Military Affairs", and "Shutting Borders and Encouraging Farmers" , all of them are the great writers of the Western Han Dynasty, and they benefited future generations, and their benefits are far-reaching.
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