Ouyang Xiu (65438+August 20071-1September 22, 072), born in Mianzhou (now Mianyang, Sichuan), born in Yongfeng, Luling, Jizhou (now Yongfeng County, Ji 'an City, Jiangxi Province), was a politician and writer in the Northern Song Dynasty.
Song Renzong Tiansheng eight years (1030), Ouyang Xiu was a scholar, experienced Renzong, Yingzong and Zongshen dynasties, and was a bachelor of Hanlin, a Tang dynasty, and participated in the discussion of state affairs. After his death, he gave it to a duke named Chu. posthumous title was called "Wenzhong", so he was called Ouyang Wenzhong.
Ouyang Xiu was the earliest literary leader who created a generation of literary style in the literary history of Song Dynasty. He, Han Yu, Liu Zongyuan, Su Shi, Su Xun, Su Zhe, Wang Anshi and Ceng Gong are also called "eight masters of Tang and Song Dynasties", and Han Yu, Liu Zongyuan and Su Shi are also called "four masters of literature through the ages". He led the poetry innovation movement in the Northern Song Dynasty, and inherited and developed Han Yu's ancient prose theory.
His high achievements in prose creation and his correct theory of ancient prose complement each other, thus creating a generation of writing style. Ouyang Xiu not only changed the style of writing, but also innovated the style of poetry. He has also made great achievements in historiography. He once majored in the Book of the New Tang Dynasty and wrote the History of the New Five Dynasties alone. There is a collection of works handed down from ancient times by Ouyang Wenzhong.
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Ouyang xiu's anecdotes and allusions;
1, four truths of good friends
During the Jiayou period in Song Renzong (1056- 1063), Fu Bi was prime minister, Ouyang Xiu was an academician, Bao Zheng was an imperial envoy, and Hu Yuan was a lecturer in imperial academy, ranking first in the world. At that time, the scholar-bureaucrat said, "The rich man is really the prime minister, Ouyang Yongshu is really a bachelor of Hanlin, and Bao Laozheng is really clean, Mr. Hu." There are four truths in the name.
2, 3 in the composition
Ouyang Xiu once said to Xie Jiang: "Most of the articles I have written in my life are in' three places', that is, immediately, on the pillow and on the toilet. Because only in this way can we have a good idea. "
3. Old and new son-in-law:
Mrs. Xu, whom Ouyang Xiuzhong married while studying, died shortly after her marriage. Later, Ouyang Xiu married the second daughter of Xue Kui, a famous minister. It is worth mentioning that our eldest son-in-law is Wang, and he and Ouyang Xiu won the top prize together.
Later, Wang's wife died, and Wang married his three daughters and continued to be the son-in-law of the Xue family and the brother-in-law of Ouyang Xiu. Ouyang Xiu wrote a poem to tease him and said, "The old son-in-law is the new son-in-law, and the big uncle is the little uncle."
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