In the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Pengfei wrote the Su surname Ancestral Ancestral Hall: "One father and son three word guests, four ancient articles." "Shanglian One Father and Son Three Words Refers to the Su Shi Family Meishan Sansu Ancestral Hall, and the Three Sus are Su Xun, Su Shi, and Su Rui. The four articles of the Lower League of Ancient Histories refer to: Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan of the Tang Dynasty and Ouyang Xiu and Su Shi of the Northern Song Dynasty. Everyone knows more and is familiar with it is the three Su in the upper link, and then introduce the four ancient articles in the lower link.
1. Han Yu
Han Yu (韩愈), courtesy name Huizhi, was a Tang Dynasty writer, thinker, and philosopher, known as Han Changli because his ancestral home was Changli, Hebei. Because he served as a servant of the official department in his later years, he was called the Han official department. The courtesy name is "Wen", so it is also called Han Wen Gong. Together with Liu Zongyuan, he was an advocate of the ancient Chinese movement, advocating the study of the prose language of the pre-Qin and Han dynasties, advocating ancient Chinese and opposing the Piao script, expanding the expression function of wen yan wen, making the expression of Wen Yan more flexible and not sticking to the form. One of the Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties, Su Shi called him "the decline of the Eight Dynasties of Wenqi"; The Ming people revered him as the first of the eight great prose masters of the Tang and Song dynasties. He is good at using the words of his predecessors, and pays attention to the refinement of contemporary spoken language, so he can create many new sentences, so Han Yu is also a language master, many of which have become idioms that have been passed down to this day, such as "disorderly", "falling into the well", "often blamed" and so on.
2. Liu Zongyuan
Liu Zongyuan (柳宗元), also known as "Liu Hedong" (柳河東) and "Mr. Hedong", was also known as "Liu Liuzhou" (柳柳州) because of the official Liuzhou Assassination History. Liu Zongyuan's poems, a total of more than 140 poems, are a poet with fewer poems in the Tang Dynasty poetry scene with a hundred flowers, but there are many heirloom works. He combined his unique life experience and emotions with the artistic experience of his predecessors, exerted his creative talents, created a unique artistic style, and became an outstanding poet representing a genre at that time. Liu Zongyuan and Han Yu were called "Han Liu", Liu Yuxi and "Liu Liu", and Wang Wei, Meng Haoran, and Wei Yingwu. In his lifetime, he left more than 600 poems and works, and wrote "Liuhe East Collection" and so on.
3. Ouyang Xiu
Ouyang Xiu was a writer, politician, historian and poet of the Northern Song Dynasty. Zi Yongshu, a drunkard, and in his later years, he was also called a June 1 resident, and the leader of the Northern Song Dynasty poetry reform movement. Ouyang Xiu's poems, words, and essays are all the crown of the moment. The poetry is lyrical and euphemistic, and the reasoning is smooth; The poetic style is similar to that of prose, attaches importance to momentum and can be fluent and natural; Ouyang Xiu's words are deep and elegant, inheriting the Southern Tang Yufeng. He was very fond of collecting Jinshi scripts and compiling them into the Collected Ancient Records. He is the author of "Ouyang Wenzhong's Collected Writings". Ouyang Xiu was also the teacher of Su Shi, a famous writer of the Northern Song Dynasty, and Wang Anshi and Zeng Gong also worshiped Ouyang Xiu as a teacher.
4. Su Shi
Su Shi (苏轼), also spelled Zizhan (字子瞻), was a famous writer, essayist, poet, calligrapher and painter of the Northern Song Dynasty, and a representative figure of the Song Dynasty. Su Shi is recognized as one of the most outstanding masters of literature and art in China's thousands of years of history, and has made great achievements in poetry, words, prose, books, paintings and other aspects. He was called "Su Xin" with Xin Shuyi, and his prose was called "Han Chao Su Hai" with Han Yu, "Ou Su" with Ouyang Xiu, and "Su Huang" with Huang Tingjian, and was called "the first all-rounder in ancient China". Su Shi was also good at calligraphy, and together with Huang Tingjian, Mi Fu and Cai Xiang, he was known as the "Four Houses of Song", and was one of the few literary and artistic geniuses in Chinese history. The Chinese of the "Three Sus" is Su Shi, who has the highest academic achievement. His works include "Seven Episodes of Dongpo", "Dongpo Lefu", "Dongpo Zhilin" and so on.
Han Yu, Liu Zongyuan, Ouyang Xiu, and Su Shi were also among the eight masters of the Tang and Song dynasties, the central figures of the ancient literature movement, advocating prose and opposing the Piao wen, giving a very far-reaching influence on the literary circles of that time and later generations.