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In the Northern Dynasties, Liu was a famous scholar-bureaucrat, and he was also called "Hedong Three Surnames" with Xue and Pei. Liu Zongyuan once proudly said: "The division of Liu nationality is higher in the north. It is filled with stones, and the world is heavy. " Liu Zongyuan's eighth to sixth ancestors were court officials, and the fifth ancestor was the secretariat of Sizhou. After entering the Tang Dynasty, the Liu family had a close relationship with the Li royal family. During the reign alone, 23 members of the Liu family lived in Guanshu at the same time. However, during the Yonghui period, the Liu family was repeatedly persecuted by Wu Zetian. By the time Liu Zongyuan was born, his family had declined, and Liu Zongyuan's great-grandfather and grandfather were only small officials like county magistrates. His father, Jin Ryu, served as a Taichang doctor in the last years of Tianbao of Xuanzong, and continued to be an official after the Anshi Rebellion, with a lower rank. Liu Zongyuan's mother, Lu, was born in the famous Lu family, but her family has declined. She has two daughters and one son, and Liu Zongyuan is the youngest. His two daughters, Cui Shi in Shandong and Shi Pei in Hedong, are both declining old aristocrats.
Liu Zongyuan said with emotion that by his generation, Liu had "studied for nothing since May and June". The Anshi Rebellion caused another great impact on the Liu family. During the war, Jin Ryu sent his mother to the King of Wu for refuge, and she and her family fled to Wudi. In the south, it was once hard to make a living, and sometimes there was no salary. Liu Zongyuan's mother often starves herself to feed her children.
Liu Zongyuan's family background has made him yearn for the "virtue" and "success" of his ancestors. He often narrates the status and glory of his ancestors in a proud tone, showing his strong desire to revive My Clan and his pursuit of fame.
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Liu Yuxi (772-842) was born in Luoyang, Zhongshan. Liu Yuxi's ancestral home is Jiaxing, and his ancestral grave was originally in Luoyang Beimang. Later, because of the isthmus, it was reburied in Xingyang (now Xingyang, Zhengzhou). The Liu family lived in Luoyang, when the Central Plains was at war. His father moved to Jiangnan and Liu Yuxi was born in Jiangnan. After his father died, he helped to transport the coffin back to Luoyang, and his mother also returned from Jiangnan. After that, he may have lived in Xingyang for a while. There is a saying in Historical Records and Biography of Huo Zhi that Liu Yuxi "lived in Yingze, Zhenyuan". Liu Yuxi lived a rough life and wandered around until his later years, when he lived in Luoyang and died in Luoyang. Liu Yuxi said that he was a "guest living in the south of the Yangtze River", calling himself a "pheasant", saying that "Luoyang was once an unchangeable place" and that "his family was born in Xingyang, and his family occupied Luoyang". It can be seen that he has lived in Jiaxing, Xingyang and Luoyang. If we can contact his ancestral home in Luoyang, we still think it is more reasonable to call him Luoyang. There is also a saying that he is from Pengcheng (now Xuzhou, Jiangsu), because Liu Bang is from Pengcheng, and Pengcheng is the county where Liu is located, just like Han Yu is in Changli. He used to supervise the censor and was a member of the Wang Reform School. What is the specific life experience, we have not yet verified. Famous poets, philosophers and writers in the middle and late Tang Dynasty were called "great poets". His family is a scholarly family handed down from generation to generation by Confucianism. Advocating political innovation is one of the core figures of the Wang school's political innovation activities.
Later, Yongzhen failed to innovate and was demoted to Langzhou Sima. Instead of indulging in self-indulgence, he wrote with a positive and optimistic spirit, actively learned from folk songs, and created poems imitating folk songs such as Picking Ling Xing.
Liu Yuxi was once sent back to Beijing by imperial edict, and was demoted as a secretariat of Lianzhou because of a poem "Peach trees were all planted in Guanli, Du Xuan after Liu Lang went". Later, he was appointed as Jiangzhou Secretariat, where he wrote a lot of Zhi Zhu Ci. Many famous sentences are widely read. In the summer of 824, he wrote the famous "Missing in the Old Times" in Xipaotai Mountain: "Since Wang Jun brought his towering ship down from Yizhou, the ghost of the royal family has languished in Nanjing. The long Zhang Qian chain sank to the bottom of the river, and a flag was lowered on the stone wall. How many sad past in life, the mountains still remain cold. Today, every sea is home, and ancient fortresses are full of ruins and autumn reeds. " This poem was greatly appreciated by later literary critics and regarded as a masterpiece of Tang poetry with endless meanings.
Later, after several transfers, Liu Yuxi was sent to Suzhou as a secretariat. At that time, Suzhou was flooded and there was hunger everywhere. After he came to power, he opened a warehouse to relieve hunger, exempted taxes and reduced labor, and soon brought the people out of the disaster and lived a life of peace and contentment. Suzhou people loved him and thanked him, so they called Wei and Bai Juyi, who had been the secretariat in Suzhou, "three sages" and established the hall of three sages. Tang Wenzong also praised his achievements and gave him a Zijin fish bag.
Liu Yuxi returned to Luoyang in his later years, making a guest appearance as a prince, adding school history, making friends and writing poems, and living a leisurely life. After his death, he was posthumously appointed Minister of the Interior.
There are more than 800 poems in existence. His poems study folk songs, reflect people's life and customs, have a wide range of themes, and draw lessons from the implicit, simple and beautiful characteristics of Bashu folk songs in style, which are fresh and natural, healthy and lively, and full of life interest. His satirical poems often use allegorical excuses to attack and suppress the innovative dignitaries in Yongzhen, which involves a wide range of social phenomena. In his later years, his style became more subtle, ironic and unobtrusive. There are more than 40 poems with the characteristics of folk songs. When Liu Yuxi was in Luoyang, he and Bai Juyi created the inscription "Recalling Jiangnan".