The four outstanding figures are equally famous, which originally did not refer to their poems, but mainly referred to parallel prose and fu. Later, it was mainly used to evaluate his poems. There is a phrase "Wang Yang and his contemporaries" in Du Fu's Six Plays, which is generally considered to refer to their poems; However, some people think that referring to the text, such as Zong Tingfu's "On the quatrains of ancient and modern poetry" in the Qing Dynasty, is called "This first theory is 46"; Or think that it also refers to poetry, such as Liu Kezhuang's "Continued Poems in Houcun". When discussing this poem, take Fu, couplet and poem as examples.
The rankings of the four outstanding figures are also different. Song's Essay on Sacrificing Du said that after the founding of the Tang Dynasty, "Wang Luo" returned and listed all the people in this order, which is the earliest known material. Zhang said that "Zhi Bei Tai Wei Pei Gong" said: "When choosing Cao, see Luo,,, and Yang Jiong", headed by Luo. Du Fu's poem "Wang Luzuo at that time", one is "Wang Yang Luo Lu"; The Biography of Pei Xingjian in the Old Tang Dynasty was also prefaced by Wang Yang Luo Lu.
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 have reversed the flagging and flashy atmosphere of court poems before the Tang Dynasty, expanded the theme of poems from pavilions and narrow blocks of love affairs to the vast space of rivers, lakes and seas, and endowed them 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.
Wang Bo (about 650-676), Zi An, Han nationality, was a poet in the Tang Dynasty. Longmen, Gujiang County (now Hejin, Shanxi Province) was born in a Confucian family, and together with Yang Jiong, Lu and Luo, he was called "four outstanding men in the early Tang Dynasty", thinking that he was the first. Wang Bo was smart and studious since he was a child. According to Old Tang Book, he was able to write articles at the age of six, and he was known as a "child prodigy". At the age of nine, I read Yan Shigu's Notes on Hanshu and wrote ten volumes of Finger Defects to correct my mistakes. At the age of sixteen, he was appointed Saburo at the request of Su You Branch. He was kicked out of Pei Wang Fu for "cockfighting". After that, Wang Bo spent three years traveling in Bashu mountains and rivers and wrote a lot of poems. After returning to Chang 'an, he asked Zhou Guo to join the army. When he joined the army, he was demoted twice for killing government slaves privately. In August of the 3rd year of Shang Dynasty (676), Tang Gaozong returned from visiting his father and drowned across the sea. Wang Bo is good at five laws and five sentences in poetry genre. His masterpiece is "Farewell to the Deputy viceroy to take up his post in Shu", and his main literary achievement is parallel prose, which is the best in quantity and quality. His representative works include Preface to Wang Teng Pavilion.
Yang Jiong (about 650-693), a native of Huayin, Huazhou (now huayin city, Shaanxi), was a writer and poet in the Tang Dynasty. He is as famous as Lu, Lu and Qi, and is known as the four outstanding figures in the early Tang Dynasty. Yang Jiong grew up smart and knowledgeable. In the fourth year of Tang Xianqing (659), he was promoted by a boy and his brother. The following year, the Hong Wen Pavilion will be completed soon. In 676, Tang Gaozong was promoted to secretary and secretary of provincial studies. In the first year of Tang Yongchun (682), he was promoted to Prince Li Xian and judge. Tang Chuigong two years (686), was demoted.
Yang Jiong's literary talent is outstanding, and he is good at writing prose, especially poetry. There are more than 30 existing poems, which are characterized by five words, such as Joining the Army, Going out to the Great Wall, Fighting South of the City, Purple Horse, etc., with great momentum and bold style, showing the fighting spirit of making contributions to the country. In art, neat antithesis and harmonious phonology have both the rigorous style of metrical poetry and the distinctive features of Yuefu poetry. Other poems that sing in harmony and set foot on the journey have little characteristics and have not completely escaped the colorful wind. There are more than 50 pieces of fu, preface, table, monument, inscription, ambition and shape. Yang Jiong opposed palace poetry and advocated the style of "backbone" and "charm". His poems have the characteristics of breaking through the "palace style" of Qi and Liang Dynasties in both content and artistic style, and occupy a place in the history of poetry development. In the Ming Dynasty, Tong Pei compiled ten volumes of Yang Yingchuan Collection.
Lu (about 636- 680) was born in Fanyang (now Dingxing County, Hebei Province), a poet in the early Tang Dynasty. The history of his birth and death is unknown, and there are many sayings in later generations, including three sons, who now live in Zhengding County, Hebei Province.
Lu was born into a noble family. Ren Yizhou Xindu (now near Chengdu, Sichuan) is the governor. In literature, he is as famous as Yang Jiong and Wang Luo, and he is also called "four outstanding figures in the early Tang Dynasty". Lv Shengji consists of seven volumes, and the mourning subset edited and annotated by Zhang Xie in Ming Dynasty.
Lu Yougong's poems are parallel prose, with good poetic style, and many beautiful sentences are full of praise, such as "Why did you quit your job when you were more successful than your eyes?" Better be a mandarin duck than a fairy, etc., is praised as a classic by later generations.
Disabled hands and feet, self-sadness, self-drowning and death.
Luo (about 638-684), a native of Yiwu, Wuzhou, Zhejiang (now Yiwu, Jinhua, Zhejiang), was a poet in the Tang Dynasty, and he was also called "four outstanding figures in the early Tang Dynasty" with Yang Jiong and Lu. Also known as "Luo Fu" with Fu Jiamo.
In the emperor's Yonghui, Li, the king of Taoism, was a master of martial arts and Chang 'an. In three years, Yifeng became a counselor, was imprisoned for something, and was pardoned the following year. After two years of exposure, except for Linhai Cheng, he resigned in frustration. There is a set. In the first year of Emperor Guangxu of Wu Zetian, Wang Wei wrote "Begging" for the man who fought Wu Zetian in Yangzhou (also known as Li), but he failed to present the book and was beheaded by Wang.
He is one of the "four outstanding figures in the early Tang Dynasty", with bold words and strict rules. Long articles such as "Imperial Capital" are intertwined with five or seven words, which are both sarcasm and self-injury; Poems such as "Give People a Water" are sad and generous in the cross, with endless feelings.