Liu Zongyuan (773-8 19), a native of Yuncheng, Shanxi Province, is known as "Liu Hedong" and "Mr. Hedong". Also known as "Liu Liuzhou" and "Liu Yuxi" because of his official career. He is a Han nationality, and his ancestral home is Hedong (now Yuncheng and Ruicheng in yongji city, Shanxi).
Writers, philosophers, essayists and thinkers in the Tang Dynasty jointly advocated the ancient prose movement in the Tang Dynasty with Han Yu, and were called "Liu Han". They are called "Liu Liu" with Liu Yuxi and "Wang Meng" with Wang Wei, Meng Haoran and Wei. They are also called "Wang Meng Liu Wei" with Han Yu, Ouyang Xiu, Su Xun, Su Shi, Su Zhe, Wang Anshi and Ceng Gong in the Tang Dynasty.
Liu Zongyuan was born in an official family, with little talent and high aspirations. He was a scholar in his early years and had a gorgeous style of writing. In the ninth year of Zhenyuan (793), he was a scholar, and in the fourteenth year, he was awarded the orthography of Jixian Hall. He used to be a lieutenant in Lantian and later became an official in North Korea. He took an active part in the political reform of Wang Group and became a foreign minister of the Ministry of Rites. Yong Zhenyuan (805). 1 1 month, Liu Zongyuan was demoted to Yongzhou Sima (now Lingling District, Yongzhou City, Hunan Province). During this period, he wrote the famous Eight Notes of Yongzhou (Travel Notes at the Beginning of the Western Hills Banquet, Notes on Western Hills in Cobalt Pool, Notes on Western Hills in Cobalt Pool, Notes on Xiaoshitang, Notes on Yuan Jiake, Notes on Shiqu and Notes on Stone Canyon). Remarkable achievements. Liu Zongyuan and the eighth day of November (865438+ 165438+20091October 28th) died in Liuzhou. Liu Yuxi and Bai Juyi are his good friends. Liu Zongyuan left more than 600 poems in his life, and his achievements were greater than poems. Most of his poems express depression, sadness and homesickness. This is a meaningful, simple and neat leisure landscape work. There are nearly a hundred parallel essays, which are strong in prose, sharp in writing and satirical and spicy. Travel notes about mountains and rivers are entrusted by many people. Philosophical works include Tian Shuo, Tian Dui and Feudalism. Liu Zongyuan's works were preserved by Liu Yuxi in the Tang Dynasty and compiled into collections. There is also the East Collection of Liuhe.