Han Yu (768-824,65438+February 25th) was born in Heyang, Henan Province (now mengzhou city, Henan Province), Han nationality, who once lived in Changli, Hebei Province, and was called "Han Changli" and "Mr. Changli". An outstanding writer, philosopher and thinker in the Tang Dynasty. Tang Dezong Zhenyuan eight years (792) Jinshi. In the 19th year of Zhenyuan (803), Yangshan was slandered by the powerful minister for publishing On Drought and Hunger. He participated in the war against Huaixi Rebellion and Wu Yuanji, and served as a marching Sima in Pei Du. In the 14th year of Yuanhe (8 19), he was banished to Chaozhou for admonishing the Buddha's bones. In his later years, he served as assistant minister of the official department, also known as the Korean official department. In the fourth year of Changqing (824), Han Yu died of illness, and posthumous title wrote The Book of Rites, hence the name "Han Wengong".

Han Yu was an advocate of the ancient prose movement in the Tang Dynasty, and was honored by later generations as the first of the "eight masters in the Tang and Song Dynasties". He and Liu Zongyuan are also called "Liu Han", and they are known as "great writers" and "one hundred generations of literators". His works include 40 volumes of Han Changli's Collected Works, Foreign Collected Works 10, Teachers' Comments, etc. His prose writing theories, such as the unity of literature and Taoism, the combination of enthusiasm and propriety, the importance of expressing one's will and the order of words, have important guiding significance for future generations.