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What are the characteristics of prose in Song Dynasty?
Song's prose creation includes prose, parallel prose, ci fu, notes and so on. The Northern Song Dynasty was the golden age of prose creation. Liu Kai and others advocated ancient prose in the early Song Dynasty, but later, under the guidance of Yang Yi and others, "modern prose" became all the rage. The main task of poetry innovation is to replace modern prose with ancient prose. Ouyang Xiu paved the way for the development of Song Dynasty prose with rich creative achievements, and laid a practical, useful and fluent basic style of Song Dynasty prose. Under his reward and promotion; Ceng Gong, Wang Anshi, Su Xun, Su Shi and Su Zhe stood out and ushered in a glorious period in the history of prose creation. Prose in this period is not only closely related to political affairs and ideological debates, but also presents a variety of styles, such as simple Zeng Wen, sharp Wang Wen and graceful Su Wen. Prose creation in the Southern Song Dynasty was closely related to the national and political struggles at that time. Hu Quan, Chen Liang, Ye Shi and others are all famous for their critical articles and fierce words on current affairs, but on the whole, "Prose is getting thinner and smaller" (Zhuzi School 109). At the end of the Song Dynasty, Wen Tianxiang, Xie Ao and others expressed their patriotic feelings in the preface, and their writing was tragic and sad. In addition, Cheng Zhu's Neo-Confucianism articles generally do not pay attention to literary talent, and hold an exclusive attitude towards writers' writings, but their lectures are concise and clear in classical Chinese. Influenced by Zen writing, Confucian classics are also very popular. These works, which record oral conversations, are straightforward, vivid and spicy, and have no intention of writing, but they provide a brand-new style and have a long-term impact on the improvement of writing style.