Liu Zongyuan: Oppose the gorgeous style of writing that has enveloped the literary world since the Six Dynasties, and advocate concise and fluent prose.
Ouyang Xiu: Taking the spirit of Han Yu's Preface to Literature, he strongly opposes the extravagant and obscure "modern prose" and advocates a simple, fluent and natural style. His works have profound connotations, diverse forms, exquisite language, charm and musicality.
Su Xun: His essays are mainly about history and politics. He inherited the argumentative tradition of Mencius and Han Yu, and formed his own vigorous style with clear language and repeated analysis of truth, which was very brilliant for strategists in the Warring States period. Sometimes you can't help but have a sophistry look, which is its shortcoming.
Wang Anshi: His prose is straightforward, concise, philosophical, vigorous, imposing, sharp and argumentative, which creates and develops a unique prose style with thorough reasoning, rigorous argumentation, careful logic, clear expression and numerous arguments.
Ceng Gong: Prose works are rich, especially good at discussion and notes. His argumentative paper is full of arguments, full of branches and leaves, full of twists and turns, calm and sincere; The chronicle is clear, concise, vivid and intriguing.
Su Shi: His poems are fresh and vigorous, making good use of exaggerated metaphors and having a unique style in artistic expression. He and Huang Tingjian are also called Su Huang. Bold ci school has a great influence on later generations, and it is called Su Xin with Xin Qiji;
Su Zhe: His poems try to catch up with Su Shi, and there are many existing poems, but they are not as good as Su Shi in both thought and talent. Most of his early poems were trivial matters of life, singing about things and writing scenery, especially with Su Shi. The style is unpretentious and the literary talent is not good.