The ancient prose movement refers to the ancient prose movement in the Tang and Song Dynasties, which was characterized by advocating ancient prose and opposing parallel prose in the middle of the Tang and Song Dynasties. Because it involves the ideological content of literature, it has the nature of ideological movement and social movement.

The concept of ancient prose was first put forward by Han Yu. Since the Six Dynasties, he has emphasized melody and rhetoric. Parallel prose is considered to be popular and ancient prose, which refers to the prose in the pre-Qin and Han dynasties.

Han Yu advocated ancient prose in order to restore the Confucian orthodoxy in ancient times and turn the reform of writing style and the revival of Confucianism into a complementary movement. When advocating ancient prose, we further emphasize that Ming Dow is the text. Except Han Yu in the Tang Dynasty? Besides Liu Zongyuan, Ouyang Xiu, Wang Anshi, Ceng Gong, Su Xun, Su Shi, Su Zhe and others in Song Dynasty are also representatives.

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The main contribution of the ancient prose movement in the Tang Dynasty in the history of China's ancient prose development is to reverse the formalism tendency that has ruled the literary world for a long time, inherit the fine tradition of early prose and make some innovations and developments, thus creating a new situation in prose creation and correcting the development direction of ancient prose.

The mainstream of prose in and after the Song Dynasty continued to develop on the basis of the ancient prose movement in the Tang Dynasty. In fact, after Liu Han, there were two general trends in the development of the ancient prose movement in the Tang Dynasty.

First, Li Ao tends to explain, which narrows the scope of reflecting reality; The other is that Huang Fushi, Sun Qiao and others "seek novelty", which makes the article obscure and difficult to understand, which is not conducive to the development of ancient Chinese prose. The essays of Pi Rixiu, Lu Guimeng and Luo Yin appeared in the late Tang Dynasty, which were short, pithy and sharp, adding luster to the literary world in the late Tang Dynasty.

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