Basic information of eight masters in Tang and Song Dynasties

During the Shunzong period, uncle Wang was in power, and he served as the minister of rites, determined to carry out political reform. Soon, Wang failed, and he was demoted to Yongzhou Sima and transferred to Liuzhou Secretariat. He lived in the south for fourteen years and died in Liuzhou. A famous thinker and outstanding writer in Tang Dynasty. As an advocate of the ancient prose movement in the Tang Dynasty and one of the eight masters in the Tang and Song Dynasties, Liu Zongyuan opposed the glamorous style of writing that has enveloped the literary world since the Six Dynasties and advocated concise and smooth prose. He is the author of forty-five volumes of Liuhe Dongji and two volumes of Waiji. Xiaoshitang is the most famous of Liu Zongyuan's Eight Chapters of Yongzhou.

Liu Zongyuan left more than 600 poems in his life. Most of his poems are about expressing depression, grief, homesickness and friendship, which makes him unique. What is most praised by the world is those leisurely landscapes with deep feelings. Liu Zongyuan and Han Yu, another writer in the Tang Dynasty, advocated the ancient prose movement in the Tang Dynasty. In his travels and fables, Liu Zongyuan also left outstanding works for future generations. Eight Chapters of Yongzhou became the representative work of China's ancient landscape travel notes. These beautiful landscape travel notes vividly express people's feelings about natural beauty, enrich the new field of classical prose reflecting life, and thus establish the position of landscape travel notes as an independent literary genre in the history of literature. Because of its artistic achievements, it has been told by people throughout the ages and is highly respected. Besides fable poems, Liu Zongyuan also wrote many fables, such as Donkey of Guizhou, Mouse of Yongmou, Elk of Linjiang, etc., which also became famous fables in ancient times. "The donkey is poor in skills" has become an idiom, and almost everyone knows it. Some fables are short in length, but they are told through the ages, just like his landscapes.

The most popular works are written after being demoted, and Yongzhou's works are better. Eight Notes on Yongzhou: Travel Notes on the First Banquet of Xishan, Guantan, Guantan Xishan, Xiaoshitang, Yuanjiake, Shiqu, Shi Jian and Koishiyama. It is steep and clean, or clear and beautiful, and reproduces the beauty of nature with exquisite language. Eight Records of Yongzhou was written four years after Yuanhe. At that time, Liu Zongyuan was exiled to Yongzhou, which is now Yongzhou, Hunan Province, because of the failure of political reform. The articles are all some scenery near Yongzhou at that time. The article is short, light, concise and fluent, which has been praised by all previous dynasties. Among them, the story of Xiaoshitang is the most famous. Through his own pen, the author described a quiet and peaceful scenery in Xiaoshitang. The article is fascinating and endless. At first, Xiaoshitang was presented by hearing its sound first and then seeing its shape. Write a pool with fish, then the clarity of the pool water can be imagined; People who write about fish are happy beyond words. The author's image is vivid, subtle, economical and superb. At the end, it is written in a quiet and quiet environment, a sad feeling and a blend of scenes. Su Xun's father Su Xu and mother Shi have two brothers, Su Lian and Su Huan. Su Xun had a hard time studying when he was young. He/Kloc-married Cheng at the age of 0/9 and made up his mind to study hard at the age of 27. After studying hard for more than ten years, he has made great progress in his studies.

In the first year of Injong Jiayou (1056), Su Shi and Su Zhe were introduced to Bianjing, and Ouyang Xiu, a bachelor of Hanlin, was called. Ouyang Xiu admired his works, such as Power, Balance and Tactics, and thought that they could be comparable to Jia Yi and Liu Xiang, so he recommended them to the court. At that time, officials and scholars rushed to tell stories, and the literary name flourished.

In the second year of Jiayou (1057), the second son tied the list in the exam and caused a sensation in Beijing.

In the third year of Jiayou (1058), Renzong called him to the Sheren Hospital to take the exam, but he refused to reply on the grounds of illness.

In the fifth year of Jiayou (1060), he was recommended by Han Qi as the secretary of the provincial school, and later became the master book of Wen 'an County in Bazhou. He also ordered Yao Bi, the county magistrate of Xiangcheng (now Henan) in Chen Zhou, to write a hundred volumes of dharma books for fellow initiates. Soon after writing, he died and was posthumously awarded as Guanglu Temple Cheng. Su Zhebaoyuan was born on February 20th, 2002 (1March 039 18). In the second year of Emperor Renzong Jiayou (1057), he joined Su Shi as a scholar. Soon after, he returned to mourning because of the loss of his mother. After six years in Jiayou (106 1), he studied with Su Shi. At that time, he was not appointed as an official because of "begging for support" and has been an official in Daming House since then.

In the fifth year of Xining (1072), he entered Henan as an official. In the eighth year of Yuanfeng (1085), the old party came to power and was dismissed. He served as the secretary of the provincial school bookkeeper and the right bookkeeper, and was promoted to the position of Zhulang. He served as the official of Zhongshu Sheren, assistant minister of the household department, etc. until the third year of Chongning (1 104), he settled in Yingchuan, lived in seclusion in the countryside, and died in112 years/. Originally from Linchuan, Fuzhou (now Fuzhou, Jiangxi), he was born in Linjiang Army (now Qingjiang, Jiangxi). The word Fu Jie, no, is Mid-Levels. Father Wang Yi, a scholar, worked in Jiangxi and Guangdong counties for a long time and died in jiangning house (Nanjing, Jiangsu). After the whole family moved, they couldn't stay long, so Jiangning became their second hometown. Yang traveled around with his father and learned a lot, as well as the people's feelings. In the second year of Li Qing (1042), he was promoted to Jinshi and served as the judge of Weinan East Road (now Yangzhou, Jiangsu). In the seventh year of Li Qing (1047), he was transferred to Yinxian County (now southeast of Ningbo, Zhejiang Province), visited Dongxi Township 14, deployed water conservancy projects, and created Gumin loan (at the beginning of the Young Crop Law). He has a good political record and a unique view that financial management must be a "world of capital" (that is, relying on the development of production). Huang You was transferred to Zhou Shu (now Anhui Huaining) for three years (105 1). Fan Zhongyan and Fu Bi, celebrities in the capital, heard his words and his politics, so they wrote letters of recommendation. They all refused to take the post of Hanlin Pavilion on the grounds that "the family is poor and there are many people". During this period, they only served as pastoral judges of Taichang Temple for one year, insisting on leaving Beijing as southeast local officials and "doing their best". The second year of Jiayou (1057) was well known in Changzhou. The following year, he was transferred to the prison of Tiaodian East Road (Raozhou, now Boyang, Jiangxi) and soon became the judge of the third division. Xiang Renzong's Quotations advocated that the reform of official administration should start from all aspects of cultivating and using talents, but also from financial management and military affairs, which was actually the early program or theoretical prototype of later reform. Renzong praised his literary talent, but he did not adopt the reform. Then on "Current Affairs" (also known as "Nothing in this century"; When it was put forward in the first year of Ning, JaeHee, Zongshen strongly urged timely reform. "There is a promising day, so don't rush to today; I'm afraid I have nothing to worry about today. " In the eighth year of Jiayou (1063), Injong died, and soon his mother returned to Jiangning to keep her post. Yingzong was in power for four years, so he couldn't stay at home.

In the fourth year of Zhiping (1067), Zongshen ascended the throne and was renamed Yuan Xining the following year. From Jiangning magistrate to Hanlin bachelor, he strongly advocated political reform under the call of Zongshen. In the second year of Xining (1069), in February, he became a government affairs consultant and made the third division of laws and regulations, preparing for political reform. At the same time, Lv Huiqing was appointed secretary of laws and regulations, examined detailed texts, and became administrative deputy Wang Anshi's political reform. In that year, the equal loss law, the young crop law and the farmland water conservancy law were promulgated. The following year, he was appointed as Prime Minister. Shintoism strikes and establishes three rules, and the rights belong to Zhongshu. Promulgate the Garbo Law and the Conscription Law (first tried out in Kaifeng). In the following three years, the tribute law, market exchange law, horse protection law, land equalization tax law and general placement law were gradually promulgated; The Exemption Law was implemented in Kaifeng the following year. In the seventh year of Xining (1074), there were Wen Yanbo and Sima Guang outside, and there were three Empresses (Injong Empress, Yingzong Empress and Zongshen Empress) who strongly opposed the new law. Xia Zheng put forward an alarmist map of refugees. Lv Huiqing and Ceng Bu, important figures in the new law, lost peace with each other. Zongshen stopped the new law and resigned six times in anger. Jiangning house is out of phase. In February of the following year, the second stage was resumed. In the end, due to the differences with Zongshen, the reform progressed difficultly. Less than a year later, he resigned again and sentenced jiangning house to retire to Jiangning Mid-Levels Park. Be named Jing Guogong. In his later years, he became a good Buddha and wrote Zi Shuo to amuse himself, but he still did not forget the reform. In the eighth year of Yuanfeng (1085), Zongshen died. The following year, Zhezong changed to "Yuan You", the Empress Dowager listened to politics, Sima Guang was appointed as prime minister, and was dismissed successively. He died of illness in April 1920. History is "Wen", so history is called "Wang Wengong". There are Wang Wen's Official Documents Collection, Mr. Linchuan's Collection, Zhou Guan Xin Yi, Eleven Goushen and other masterpieces handed down from ancient times. Ceng Gong claimed to be a Confucian (The First Book of Ouyang Shixue by Ceng Gong). His grandfather was a doctor and his father was a doctor too often. Ceng Gong is very talented and has a good memory. When he was young, he read poetry books and could recite them. He and his brother Zeng Ye studied hard together and showed great talent from an early age. According to historical records, Gong "can speak at the age of twelve, and his language is amazing". His younger brother Zeng Zhao called him "born alert, not like a teenager" in "A Journey to My Dead Brother", and he had a superior memory, "reading tens of thousands of words and blurting it out". /kloc-when he was 0/8 years old, he went to Beijing to take the exam, met Wang Anshi, who was in Beijing with his father, and became close friends. At the age of 20, he entered imperial academy and wrote Ouyang Xiu, presenting "Current Affairs Policy". Ouyang Xiu appreciates his unique style of writing. Ouyang Xiu said: "There are hundreds of people who have passed our door, and they are happy to live alone." ("Bachelor Ouyang Er Shu") has been famous all over the world since then, but it has been tried and tested because it is good at planning and is lighter than the current article. In the seventh year of Li Qing (1047), his father died. As the second son (with a brother on it), he had to drop out of school and return to his hometown to serve his stepmother wholeheartedly. When Ceng Gong was a teenager, he and Wang Anshi were close friends. After boarding Ouyang Xiu's door, he recommended Wang Anshi to Ouyang Xiu. It was not until the second year of Jiayou (1058) that Ouyang Xiu presided over the examination, insisting on giving priority to ancient prose and strategy, supplemented by poetry and prose, that Ceng Gong and his brothers Zeng Mou, Ceng Bu and cousin Zeng Fu became the first scholar.

In the fourth year of Jiayou (1059), he joined the army in Taipingfu (now dangtu county, Anhui Province) and was famous for his understanding of laws and regulations and appropriate sentencing. In the past five years, Ouyang Xiu recommended him to the capital for collating, recruiting talents, sorting out and collating a large number of ancient books, such as Warring States Policy, Shuoyuan, New Preface, Liang Shu, Tang Ling, Li Taibai Ji, Inclusive Poems, Biography of Women, etc., and made many books of past dynasties.

In the second year of Xining (1069), he was a proofreader of A Story of Song Yingzong, and was soon released to Yuezhou (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang) to serve his sentence. He has worked in Xining for five years, and has successively served as well-known person, Xiangzhou, Hongzhou, Fuzhou, Mingzhou and Bozhou. Honest and honest, diligent in political affairs, concerned about people's livelihood. He implemented the new law according to Wang Anshi's purpose and actual situation. Committed to rehabilitating unjust imprisonment, maintaining social order, cracking down on strongmen, disaster relief and epidemic prevention, dredging river bridges, setting up post stations, restoring cities, setting up schools, cutting official documents, rectifying official management, and abolishing exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous fees, it was well received by the masses.

For three years (1080), Yuan Feng was appointed as the Zhizhou of Cangzhou (now Hebei). When passing through Kaifeng, Song Shenzong summoned him. Song Shenzong appreciated his suggestion that "saving is the key to financial management" and stayed in a tertiary hospital. In the fourth year of Yuanfeng, the court thought that "Ceng Gong should be a scholar in compiling the history of the Five Dynasties", appointed him as a historian, edited the courtyard, and sentenced the Taichang Hall as a ritual. In the fifth year of Yuanfeng, he worshipped Zhongshu Sheren. In September of the same year, he was mourned by his mother and went to the official. The following year, he died in jiangning house (now Nanjing). Buried in the right of Nanfengyuan Chongjue Temple. The Southern Song Dynasty was called "Wen Ding" and "Mr. Nanfeng".