Brief introduction of Liu Zongyuan

Liu Zongyuan (AD 773-AD 8 19165438+1October 28th), a native of Hedong (now Yongji area in Yuncheng, Shanxi Province), was one of the eight masters in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and was known as "Liu Hedong" and "Mr. Hedong" in the Tang Dynasty.

Liu Zongyuan and Han Yu are called Liu Han, Liu Yuxi is called Liu Liu, and Wang Wei, Meng Haoran and Wei Wuying are called Wang Meng.

Liu Zongyuan's ancestral home is Hedong County (Liu's, Xue's and Pei's in Hedong are also called "Hedong Three Surnames"), and he has been an official for generations (the seventh ancestor, assistant minister in the Northern Wei Dynasty, sealing Yin Gong).

Liu Zongyuan's great-grandfather Liu and his grandfather Liu Chagong were both county magistrates. His father, Jin Ryu, was an imperial adviser. Liu Zongyuan's mother, Lu, is a land native and has been an official for generations. Liu Zongyuan has only two sisters.

In 792, Liu Zongyuan was elected as a township tribute and was able to take the Jinshi exam.

In 793, at the age of 265,438+0, Liu Zongyuan was admitted to the Jinshi examination and became famous. Soon, Liu Zongyuan's father Jin Ryu died, and Liu Zongyuan was in mourning at home.

In 798, 26-year-old Liu Zongyuan took the erudite macro-character exam and won the list, and was awarded the orthography of Jixian Temple Academy (ranking from Jiupin).

In 803 10, Liu Zongyuan was transferred back to Chang 'an as the censor. Since then, he has made more friends with the upper echelons of officialdom, gained a deeper understanding of the dark corruption of politics, and gradually sprouted the desire for reform, becoming an important figure in Wang's reformists.

In 805 (the 21st year of Zhenyuan), 65438+1October 26th, Tang Dezong died, and the crown prince Li Yong succeeded to the throne and changed to Yongzheng, that is, Shunzong. After Shunzong ascended the throne, he reused Wang and others. Liu Zongyuan, because of the same political views as Wang, was also promoted to the position of Shangshu, who was in charge of etiquette, sacrifice and tribute.

After the failure of Yongzhen's innovation, Liu Zongyuan was demoted to Shaozhou secretariat in September and to Yongzhou Sima in May 5438+065438+ 10. (Other members of the Wang Political Group were also demoted to the Sima of the original state, and later called "Sima of the two kings and eight sons". ) Liu Zongyuan stayed in longxing temple after his arrival. Six months later, Liu Zongyuan's mother died of illness. ?

In August15, Liu Zongyuan left Yongzhou and lived in Yongzhou 10. Liu Zongyuan studied philosophy, politics, history, literature and other aspects, traveled around Yongzhou and made friends with local scholars and idlers. He wrote Eight Chapters of Yongzhou (3 17 of more than 540 poems in the complete works of Liuhe East).

8 19 years (14 years of Yuan and Yuan), an amnesty was granted by Xianzong. Under the persuasion of Pei Du, Xianzong summoned Liu Zongyuan back to Beijing. On the eighth day of November, Liu Zongyuan died in Liuzhou. At the age of 47.

1 158 (in the 28th year of Shaoxing), Song Gaozong named Liu Zongyuan Hou Ling, Zhao Wenhui.

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Teenagers become famous:

Liu Zongyuan's great achievement is the result of his hard work in a good family education since he was a child. Father Jin Ryu is an honest and knowledgeable official, and mother Lushi knows how to write and be polite.

Liu Zongyuan, a talented man, followed his mother to read ancient poems and poems, read poems, write poems and copy poems after breakfast every day when he was four or five years old. By the time I was seven or eight years old, I could recite many famous poems and articles, and I could also write very good short poems and articles.

When Liu Zongyuan was twelve or thirteen years old, his father went to Hubei and Guangxi to be an official. With my father, I was able to visit historical cities such as Xiakou and Changsha, get in touch with the society extensively, and witnessed the social drawbacks and the disasters brought to the people by the war. The trip had a great influence on his thoughts. Since then, he has made a great wish to get rid of graft and revitalize the country. He is determined to make a difference and make contributions like an outstanding figure in ancient times.

From the beginning, he knew that in order to realize his ideal, he must first make up his mind to study. Since then, he has read extensively, especially the classics and history books of the Qin and Han Dynasties, studied and absorbed critically, and constantly enriched his thoughts. Gradually, he became more talented and deeper.

One day, an imperial envoy named Cui Zhongcheng visited Liu Zongyuan, which surprised the people around him. It turns out that Zhong Cheng has been in Sanbaotang. He wanted Liu Zongyuan to write the emperor's memorial for him. Things have to start from the beginning. In August of this year, Li Huaiguang, who had malicious intentions and attempted to launch a rebellion, was leveled by loyalists. Yushi wants to write a table to congratulate the emperor. He heard that Liu Zongyuan was a young genius and specially asked him to write it for him.

Liu Zongyuan knows that writing such things requires not only good writing, but also political foresight. After I saw him meditate a little, I wrote a book and wrote "For Cui Zhongcheng and His Watch" in one go.

This article is clear-cut, fluent, magnificent and reasonable. The manuscript of this article spread like wildfire, and scholars scrambled to copy it. The name of Liu Zongyuan, a teenager, immediately caused a sensation in the ruling and opposition parties and spread all over the capital Chang 'an. Unfortunately, this article is not complete yet.

At the age of 2 1, Liu Zongyuan was admitted to the Jinshi, and at the age of 26, he was "learned and versatile". Since then, I have embarked on the road of being an official. Later, he participated in the reform of Wang Group and advocated innovation. After the failure, he was demoted to Yongzhou and Liuzhou.

In his spare time in politics, he wrote many excellent essays and poems. His poetry has a distinctive style, vigorous writing, thorough reasoning and rigorous structure, which occupies an important position in the history of literature.

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