Xunzi (about 365438 BC+03 BC-238 BC), Ming Qing, was born in Huaxia (Han nationality) and Zhao at the end of the Warring States Period. A famous thinker, writer and politician, he is called "Xun Qing". It was also called in the Western Han Dynasty because it avoided the taboo of Emperor Gaozu, and because the words "Xun" and "Sun" were homophony. He served as a drinking ceremony for Xia Ji Gong Xue in Qi State for three times, and was later ordered by Chu Lanling (located in Lanling County, Shandong Province).
Xunzi developed Confucianism. On the issue of human nature, he advocated the theory of evil nature, advocated that human nature was evil, denied the innate moral concept, and emphasized the influence of acquired environment and education on people. His theory is often compared with Mencius' theory of good nature by later generations, and Xunzi has also made considerable contributions to sorting out Confucian classics.
2. Wang Bo
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. 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.
3. Wang Changling
Wang Changling (698-757), born in Jinyang, Hedong (now Taiyuan, Shanxi), was named Shao Bo, alias Chang 'an, Jing Zhao (now xi 'an). A famous frontier poet in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, later generations praised him as the "Seven Wonders". Wang Changling was born in a poor family in his early years, and lived mainly by farming. At the age of 30, he became a scholar. First, he served as the secretary of the provincial school book lang, then as a learned and ambitious official, and was demoted to Lingnan for his merits.
Wang Changling had deep contacts with Li Bai, Gao Shi, Wang Wei, Wang Zhihuan and Cen Can. At the end of Kaiyuan, he returned to Chang 'an and awarded Jiangning Cheng. The slandered dragon captain. An Shi rebelled and was killed by Lu Qiuxiao, the secretariat. His poems are famous for their four wonders, especially the frontier poems written in northwest frontier fortress before he ascended the first place, which is known as "the poet king Jiangning". Wang Changling's poems are dense and clear, just like Gao Shi and Wang Zhihuan, who are called Wang Jiangning. There are six volumes of anthology, and four volumes of poetry are compiled today. Representative works include Seven Songs of Joining the Army, Out of the Shanzhai, Always in My Heart, etc.
4. Bai Juyi
Bai Juyi (772-846), a native of Xinzheng, Henan Province, was born in Rakuten, a Buddhist in Xiangshan. Mr. Zuyin was originally from Taiyuan, and his great-grandfather moved to Xiaxia. He was a great realistic poet in the Tang Dynasty and one of the three great poets in the Tang Dynasty. Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen * * * advocated the new Yuefu movement, and together with Liu Yuxi, they called the world "Bai Yuan" and "Bai Liu".
Bai Juyi's poems have a wide range of themes, diverse forms and simple and popular language, and are known as "the poet's magic" and "the king of poets". Official to Hanlin bachelor, Zuo Zanshan doctor. In 846 AD, Bai Juyi died in Luoyang and was buried in Xiangshan. Up to now, there are Bai's "Changqing Collection", and the representative works include Song of Eternal Sorrow, Charcoal Man, Pipa Travel and so on.
5. Liu Zongyuan
Liu Zongyuan (AD 773-AD 8 19165438+1October 28th), a native of Hedong (now Yongji area in Yuncheng, Shanxi Province), was one of the eight masters in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and was known as "Liu Hedong" and "Mr. Hedong" in the Tang Dynasty. Liu Zongyuan and Han Yu are called Liu Han, Liu Yuxi is called Liu Liu, and Wang Wei, Meng Haoran and Wei Wuying are called Wang Meng.
Liu Zongyuan left more than 600 poems in his life, and his achievements in writing were greater than poems. Nearly a hundred parallel essays, argumentative essays, sharp and ironic. There are many places where scenery is described in travel notes, such as Collection of Mr. Hedong, with representative works such as Xiju, Jiang Xue and Fisherman. Liu's former residence is located in Wenxing Village, Qinshui County, Jincheng City, Shanxi Province. It was built by Liu Zongyuan's adherents and is a national scenic spot.