1, representative works: Teng Xu, Farewell to Du Shu Administrative Office, etc.
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. He is good at five laws and five unique skills, and his representative works include "Farewell to Vice Governor Du to Shu".
2. Yang Jiong, the representative work: Joining the army and going south? wait for
Yang Jiong grew up smart and knowledgeable. In the fourth year of Tang Xianqing (659), he served as a boy, and the following year, he served as a Hongwen Pavilion. In 676, Tang Gaozong served as secretary of provincial studies. In the first year of Tang Yongchun (682), he was promoted to Crown Prince and Zhan, and in the second year of Tang Chuigong (686), he was reduced to Zheng.
3. Lu's representative works include: Ancient Meaning of Chang 'an, Watching Lights at Fifteen Nights, Expressing My Feelings on the Yuan Day, etc.
Lu (about 636- 695), a native of Fanyang, Youzhou, Han nationality, was a poet in the early Tang Dynasty.
Lu was born into a noble family. Ren Yizhou Xindu (now near Chengdu, Sichuan) is the governor. In literature, he is as famous as Wang Bo, Yang Jiong and Wang Luobin, and is 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.
4. Luo, representative works: Seeking, Imperial Capital, Past, Singing Goose, etc?
Luo (about 619-about 687 AD), Han nationality, born in Yiwu, Wuzhou (now Yiwu, Zhejiang), was a poet in the Tang Dynasty. In the emperor's Yonghui, Li, the king of Taoism, was a master of martial arts and Chang 'an. In the third year of Yifeng (678), she became a counselor, was imprisoned for something, and was pardoned the following year.
In the second year (680), except Linhai Cheng, he resigned in frustration. In the first year of Guangzhai (684), Xu Jingye started a crusade against Wu Zetian, and Robin wrote Xu Jingye from Wu Zhao for him. An election campaign listed the crimes of Wuhou, which was very touching. When Wu Hou read this sentence, "A handful of dirt is wet, and six feet are lonely (where)", he was extremely shocked and asked the Prime Minister why he didn't reuse this person earlier.
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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 reversed the decadent and flashy atmosphere of court poetry before the Tang Dynasty, expanded the theme of poetry from the narrow field of pavilions and affairs to the vast space of rivers and lakes, and endowed poetry 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.
They were all talented poets and poets in the middle and late Tang Dynasty. The four talented poets became famous early and gained the reputation of "four outstanding poets" in their youth.
They are famous poets with small official positions, young talents and high talents. They played a connecting role in the early Tang Dynasty, connecting Chen Liang and Shen Song. Among them, Lu and Luo Shange, Wang and Yang Shan have five laws. Later generations said that Tang poetry with both temperament and character was shaped from them.
They began to move poetry from the palace to the market, from Taige to Jiangshan and Saimo, with expanded themes and serious thoughts, and the form of five-character and eight-sentence rhythm poetry began to take shape.
With the conscious change of writing style, they have a very clear aesthetic pursuit: opposing delicacy and advocating vitality. Although their poems failed to shake off the ethos of the Southern Dynasties, the change of their poetic style and the expansion of their themes predicted the future development direction of Tang poetry and played a positive and progressive role. They are the real pioneers of Tang poetry.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Four Masters in Early Tang Dynasty