His argumentative essays can be divided into two categories: historical theory and political theory.

The historical thesis is mainly the preface of his historical works, which is concise and embodies profound historical opinions and political thoughts.

The preface of the Biography of Shi Lingguan in the Five Dynasties is the best, and Mao Kun of Amin called it "the tune of the Millennium".

Through the rise and fall of Li in the later Tang Dynasty, we can draw the conclusion that "worry and fatigue can rejuvenate the country, leisure can perish" and "many disasters accumulate, and wisdom and courage can drown".

The article is short, first narrated, then discussed, singing and sighing, filled with emotion.

For example, at the beginning of the article: "Woo! The truth of ups and downs, although called destiny, is not human nature! It turns out that the reason why Zhuang Zong won the world is better than the person who lost the world. " Really emotional, but the style is calm and euphemistic.

In the middle, someone wrote that Zhuang Zong inherited his father's ambition of anger and revenge. When the enemy was wiped out and the world was stable, the situation changed greatly. "a woman cried at night, and there should be four chaos ... the monarch and the minister looked at each other and didn't know where to go ... as for tears, it was a failure!" From the sharp contrast of one liter and one suppression, it shows that "rise and fall" depends on "personnel"

However, the author said, "Is it hard to get and easy to lose? Suppress its success or failure and follow people? " The combination of incisive exposition, deep emotion, euphemistic tone and plain ups and downs thinking is Ouyang Xiu's most unique writing style.

Ouyang Xiu's political essays are mostly aimed at real political problems, among which the famous works such as "The Theory of Partisan" are the products of real political struggle.

In response to conservative attacks, the article does not deny cronies, but points out that there are principled differences between cronies, that is, "gentlemen and gentlemen are like-minded friends, and villains and villains are like-minded friends", and quotes history to show that gentlemen's friends are beneficial to the country, while villains' friends are harmful to the country. I hope people can become real friends of gentlemen and get rid of villains' fake friends.

The article avoids passively defending itself, and only points out the objective existence of cronies from the front, while cronies are essentially different.

In this way, the argument won the initiative and made itself invincible.

Ouyang Xiu's narrative is plain and smooth, and his writing is full of emotion.

Drunk pavilion.

The full text is concise, full and vivid, both literary and imposing.

Starting from the general environment, the article slowly leads readers to Zuiweng Pavilion, and points out the central thread of the full text of people's "pleasure of mountains and rivers" from the name of the pavilion.

Then describe the scenery of Zuiweng Pavilion, in the order of "morning", "dusk" and "spring, summer, autumn and winter", draw a typical scenery in one sentence at a time and form six pictures. In the end, it comes down to different seasons, and the words "endless joy" are still closely linked.

In addition to writing about mountains and rivers, the author also pays attention to writing about people, and puts his "happiness of mountains and rivers" under the background that Chu people play with mountains and rivers, which comes down to "having fun with Chu people" and "having fun".

The author demoted Chuzhou as an official, but he can treat political setbacks with an open mind. He is attached to mountains and rivers and enjoys himself. He showed his political views and achievements by describing the mountains and rivers and enjoying the people, indicating that his political stance and political views have not changed because of the blow.

The language and sentence patterns of the article are also very distinctive. The full text ends with the repeatedly used function words "zhe" and "ye". Echoing each other, echoing the previous call, has a very beautiful tone.

At the same time, there are many parallel sentences between single lines, which are sonorous and harmonious, can highlight the author's positive and optimistic life interest and are very creative in art.

The writing of "Ji" such as "Zuiweng Pavilion" is Owen's most artistic part.

Ouyang Xiu is also good at writing prose. His "Ode to Autumn Sound" draws lessons from prose, paying attention to parallelism, extravagance and rhythm in art, but getting rid of the common fault of prose piling up, strengthening the prosaic tendency of prose, changing ancient prose into fresh and lively prose, and opening up a new road for the development of prose.