Having studied Tang poetry and Song Ci, everyone is estimated to know the phrase "one father and son three word guests, four people in ancient articles", and the "one father and son three word guests" in this sentence refers to the "three Su", that is, Su Xun, Su Shi, and Su Rui of Meishan, Sichuan, who are all among the eight masters of the Tang and Song dynasties and occupy an important position in the history of Chinese literature.
In Hubei, there are also famous three celebrities, and these three people are the three Yuan brothers in Hubei. The three brothers of the Yuan family refer to Yuan Zongdao, Yuan Hongdao and Yuan Zhongdao, these three brothers are from Gong'an County, Jingzhou City, Hubei Province, the three brothers of the Yuan family have been clever and studious since childhood, and they are deeply liked by the teachers, and Mr. Yuan's three brothers have spared no effort to teach them what they have learned in their lives, and the more so the three brothers of the Yuan family respect the gentlemen, the more polite they are, for fear of failing mr. Yuan's wishes.
More than ten years have passed, the three yuan brothers of Hubei public security are also in their twenties, in this year of their twenties, all three people have passed the entrance examination, and the Yuan family has heard the news from the capital boiling, and this good news has quickly spread throughout Hubei public security.
First of all, let's talk about Yuan Zongdao, the eldest of the three brothers, born in 1560, who won the first grade when he took the examination in 1589. Yuan Zongdao was a great writer of the Ming Dynasty, but his articles also had their shortcomings, that is, there was a characteristic of poor content.
Yuan Hongdao, it is estimated that everyone has heard of the name Yuan Hongdao, Yuan Hongdao is a great writer of the Ming Dynasty, the commander of the public security faction, and the highest achievement of the three brothers Chinese. Although Yuan Hongdao passed the entrance examination, he had no intention of pursuing a career, and his life traveled through mountains and rivers, visited teachers and studied, and lived a life of ease.
Yuan Zhongdao is the youngest of the three brothers, born in 1570, at the age of 16 he passed the Xiucai examination, Yuan Zhongdao wrote a lot in his lifetime, is the most written of the three yuan brothers, but his literary achievements are not as high as Yuan Hongdao. At the same time, Yuan Zhongdao was also the longest-lived of the three Yuan brothers, at the age of fifty-four. Fifty-four years old is indeed not a long life compared to many people today, but among the three Yuan brothers, he is the one with the longest life span, Yuan Zongdao's life expectancy is forty-one years, yuan Hongdao's life expectancy is forty-three years, so he is the longest life expectancy among the three brothers.
Public security three Yuan
The three yuan brothers later became university inquirers, and later generations called them "three yuan of public security", the three yuan of public security had a profound influence on the development of literature in later generations, and created the "public security faction", and the "public security faction" originated from Yuan Zongdao, the backbone of which was Yuan Hongdao, and Yuan Hongdao was also the main leading figure of the public security faction, and later It was Yuan Zhongdao who carried forward the public security faction.
The public security faction advocates informality and flexibility in writing articles, advocates popular literature and folk song novels, and opposes inheritance.
Although the three brothers belong to the "public security faction", but the articles of the three brothers have their own characteristics, the style is very different, if you are interested, you can find a look, it is estimated that there are more books about Yuan Hongdao in the book market, and the books about Yuan Zongdao and Yuan Zhongdao may not be so easy to find, but if you want to find it, you can still find it.