There are more than 600 literary works, and he has made great achievements in poetry, ci and prose. At the same time, he and Han Yu were advocates of the ancient prose movement in Tang Dynasty. Together with Su Xun, Su Shi, Su Zhe, Wang Anshi, Ouyang Xiu and Ceng Gong in the Song Dynasty, they were called the eight masters of Tang and Song Dynasties.
Liu Zongyuan has been an official for generations. His ancestral home is Hedong, and the Liu family is also very important there. His father can write poems and his mother believes in Buddhism, so his parents also laid a good foundation for him to write and be a good Buddha in the future.
In 793 AD, Liu Zongyuan was twenty-one years old and was a scholar. After his father died, he stayed at home to be filial to his father. In 803, he was recalled to Beijing as an official. At that time, the government was corrupt. When he saw this phenomenon, he also had the idea and desire to change it. He is on the same side as Wang.
After the death of Tang Dezong in 805 AD, Tang Shunzong succeeded to the throne and trusted Wang. Liu Zongyuan was valued by Wang and was appointed as the minister of rites.
After Wang came to power, he carried out reforms, and Liu Zongyuan was able to display his ambition and talent at this time. However, the good times did not last long. Tang Shunzong was seriously ill, and the eunuch embraced Prince beginning of spring. Therefore, in the same year of Tang Shunzong's succession, he inherited the Spring Calendar as the Emperor's Father, and after it, it was for Tang Xianzong.
Liu Zongyuan's Achievements
Liu Zongyuan's prose is as famous as Han Yu's, and he is also known as the "Eight Masters in Tang and Song Dynasties" with Liu Han, Ouyang Xiu and Su Shi in Song Dynasty, and he is the most outstanding essayist in the history of China. In the middle Tang Dynasty, Liu Zongyuan and Han Yu initiated and led an ancient prose movement in the literary world. They put forward a series of ideological theories and literary ideas.
In the content of the article, in view of the shortcomings of parallel prose, such as not paying attention to content and emptiness, this paper puts forward "the unity of literature and Taoism" and "the unity of literature and Taoism" The article demands to reflect the reality, and "injustice will sound", which is full of critical spirit to get rid of the disadvantages of the times. In the form of the article, it is proposed to innovate the style, break through the shackles of parallel prose, and the sentence length is not limited, requiring innovative language to "speak out" and "speak out".
In addition, it is also pointed out that "stand up" first and then "stand up". This is a progressive literary proposition. In their creative practice, Han and Liu created many excellent essays with rich content, skillful skills and concise and vivid language. Liu Han's ancient prose movement has a far-reaching influence on later generations.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Liu Zongyuan