Wu Shaowei

Wu Shaowei

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Tang Dynasty writer. Xin'an (now Xiuning, Huangshan, Anhui) people. Zhongcai, suigu. Born on August 13 of Guihai in the third year of longshuo (663), Gaozong of Tang Dynasty, and died in the eighth year of Tianbao (750), emperor of Ming Dynasty, he was buried with his wife Zhu in shiye mountain of Xiuning (later renamed Fenghuang Mountain). In the first year of Chang'an of Tang Dynasty (701), Xin Chou became a Jinshi. He was awarded the title of Captain Jinyang.

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Wu Shaowei, a litterateur of Tang Dynasty, is the 61st grandson of Taibo. His poems are magnificent and magnificent. Together with Fu Jiamo, he is called "Wu Fu ti". Wu Zhou Chang'an Middle School (701-704) awarded Jinyang Wei. At the beginning of emperor Zhongzong's reign, Wei Sili, the Minister of the Ministry of official affairs, recommended him to be the censor of Zuotai. In March of the second year of Shenlong (706), gamut died. He was a little sick. He was grieved at the news, wrote poems and died soon. As well as Gamo and Guyi, they are both famous for their writings and Ci, and are known as the "three heroes of Beijing". In the early Tang Dynasty, all the articles written by the literati lived in Xu (Ling) and Yu (Xin). They were not only superficial but also unconventional. They were all based on Confucian classics, advocating elegance and dethroning buoyancy. They were powerful and powerful, and the people of the time were fighting for their effect. The number is Wu Fu ti. The bell inscription of Chongfu temple, written by Shaowei, is particularly valued by people at that time. There are ten volumes of records, which have been lost. Quantangwen includes six articles, such as the inscription table of Zhang Renqi's entering Jiuding for the history of merging governor. There are six poems in the whole Tang poetry, such as Wai Fu Jia Mo, Chang men yuan and Gu Yi.

Fu Wu Style

"Fu Wu Style" is the earliest new style of prose style in the ancient prose movement of Tang Dynasty. It was created by Fu Jiamo and Wu Shaowei when they were officials in Jinyang. Fu Jiamo, a native of Wugong in Yongzhou (now Wugong County in Shaanxi Province), became an official as a Jinshi. During the reign of Empress Wu Shengli, Empress Wu Zetian ordered Zhang changzong to compile a large-scale category book "three religions and Zhuying", in which Fu Jiamo participated. During the reign of Chang'an (701-704 A.D.), Fu Jiamo served as the commander of Jinyang, the northern capital. Later he entered the court and served as the censor of Zuotai. He soon died of illness. There are five volumes of collected works left behind, which are lost today. There are four chapters in quantangwen.

Wu Shaowei, a native of Xin'an (Shexian County, Anhui Province), and Fu Jiamo at the same time, "also promoted Jinshi, tired to Jinyang Wei". Later, he entered the court and paid homage to Youtai to supervise the censor. When Fu and Wu were officials in Jinyang, they fell in love with each other. Their literary talent was appreciated by the governor of Bingzhou, "when they are treated with special rites, they will sit together.". In the early Tang Dynasty, due to the influence of parallel prose in the Six Dynasties, "scholars wrote steles, which were all based on Xu (Xu Ling) and Yu (Yu Xin), and their tone gradually deteriorated. Jiamo and Shaowei, both of which are based on classics, were admired by people at that time. Their style changed and they were called Fu Wu style. " From this, Fu and Wu made great contributions to the literary world.

When Fu Jiamo and Wu Shaowei were appointed officials in Jinyang, Gu Yiren, a native of Weijun (now located in Daming County in Hebei Province), was appointed as the master of Taiyuan. They were "all famous for their words" and were known as "three heroes of Beijing". According to the records of wenyuanzhuan in the old book of Tang Dynasty, the representative works of Fu Wu style are Fu Jiamo's shuanglongquansong, qianchonggusong and Wu Shaowei's Chongfu temple bell inscription. Three articles, "the most elegant word, the author's emphasis.". Two articles of Xifu Jiamo have been lost.

Shuanglongquan and qianchongshu valley are scenic spots near Jinyang. Shuanglongquan is the South and North Longquan in the northwest of Yangqu County, Taiyuan city. The two springs are only 500 meters apart, surrounded by rolling mountains and shady trees. There is Da'an Temple beside the spring, which was built in the early Tang Dynasty. There is a Buddhist pagoda in the temple, commonly known as "Tang Monk pagoda". It was the place where Master Xuanzang, an eminent monk, passed on scriptures during the Zhenguan period. Qianchong (Chongshu) Valley is a gorge in the northwest of Taiyuan. In ancient times, it was a channel connecting Jinyang with the northwest states. Its east entrance is the famous Tianmen pass. Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty once opened up traffic and built a plank road here, so it is named Yangguang road. The cliff here is as sharp as a cliff, the valley path is deep, "Tianmen snow" is one of the eight ancient Jinyang scenic spots. It can be seen that Fu Jiamo's western essays belong to the prose of landscape travel notes. Zhang, the leader of Kaiyuan literary circle, said that his articles were "like a lonely peak and a thousand cliffs standing on the bank, with thick clouds and heavy prosperity, full of thunder and shock, which is really awesome. If they were applied to langmiao temple, it would be terrible." Such a style is in sharp contrast to the parallel prose of "being charming and beautiful, smiling like the laughter of women and children".

Wu Shaowei's Chongfu temple bell inscriptions (the whole Tang Dynasty work "the Tang Dynasty Beijing Chongfu Temple bronze bell inscriptions and preface") is the only representative work of "Fu Wu Style". Chongfu temple is located in South Wuli of Jinyang, which is a famous temple of Jinyang in Tang Dynasty. Chongfu temple bell inscription is an inscription written by Wu Shaowei for Chongfu Temple bronze bell. This article inherits the writing characteristics of prose in pre Qin and Western Han Dynasty. The writing is simple and fresh, simple and elegant, without any carving and flashiness. The sentence pattern is contrary to the fixed format of the four or six characters at that time. It uses flexible two character sentence, three character sentence and five character sentence to read with bright rhythm, ups and downs, thick and majestic tone, and extraordinary momentum. It shows Wu Shaowei's outstanding talent and "Fu Wu Style" Unique style.

"Fu Wu Style", as the earliest new prose style in the creation practice of the ancient prose movement in Tang Dynasty, opened the clue of the ancient prose movement in Tang Dynasty. In the early Tang Dynasty, "the articles in the world were Xu and Yu, but the slang was not competitive," and "the tone gradually deteriorated.". During the reign of Wu Zetian, Chen Ziang stood up and put forward the idea of literature returning to the ancients. However, Chen Ziang's idea of literature returning to the ancients has its limitations: first, the genre is only limited to poetry; second, the slogan of returning to the ancients only stays in theory, and does not get rid of the shackles of the style of writing in the Six Dynasties in writing practice. Fu Jiamo and Wu Shaowei, who were almost at the same time with Chen Ziang, set up a new style of prose style of "elegant, thick, bold" against the stale habit of parallel prose of the Six Dynasties. If Chen Zi'ang was the first advocator of Literature Restoration in Tang Dynasty, Fu Jiamo and Wu Shaowei were the first practitioners of Literature Restoration in Tang Dynasty. Fu and Wu's bold attempt to replace parallel prose with new prose is the most important step of the ancient prose movement in the Tang Dynasty, which is a prominent contribution to the ancient prose movement.

The creation features of "Fu Wu Style" and "based on classics" had a profound influence on the later ancient prose movement. Xiao Yingshi, Li Hua, yuan Dexiu, Yuan Jie, Dugu, Liang Su, Han Yunqing, Han Hui and other prose writers in the prosperous Tang Dynasty were all influenced by Fu Jiamo and Wu Shaowei. Finally, Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan appeared in the middle Tang Dynasty, which pushed the ancient prose movement to a climax. Therefore, we can divide the ancient prose movement of the Tang Dynasty into three stages: the beginning of the early Tang Dynasty, the development of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and the climax of the middle Tang Dynasty. As Ouyang Xiu said in the Song Dynasty, "the Tang Dynasty had three hundred years in the world, the article had no worries about three changes, the emperor Gaozu and Taizong were in great trouble, and they began to invade the country, and left the wind along the river "Between Dali and Zhenyuan, there were many beautiful people, who lived in Daozhen and yongshengya, so Han Yu, Liu Zongyuan, Li Xiang, Huangfu and so on ranked among them, and their laws were deep and flat. They came to Jin and Wei dynasties, and the Han and Zhou dynasties, and the Tang Dynasty was a king's law The appearance of "Fu Wu Style" marked the rise of the ancient prose movement in Tang Dynasty, and had a positive and far-reaching impact on the further development of the movement.

The appearance of "Fu Wu Style" in the northern capital of Jinyang at that time was not accidental. Jinyang was the birthplace of Tang Dynasty and the hometown of Empress Wu Zetian. It was one of the largest cities in China at that time. Jinyang, the northern capital of China, is rich in natural resources and outstanding people. It has an important strategic position. Most of the local officials stationed here by the Tang Dynasty were the prime ministers of the imperial court. A large number of literary talents gathered around them. These people sang together to echo and encourage the writing, creating a strong cultural atmosphere for the prosperous city of Jinyang. Jinyang, the northern capital of the Tang Dynasty, was also the center of cultural integration between the north and the south. From the Three Kingdoms and two Jin Dynasties to the Sixteen Kingdoms and Northern Dynasties, it was the center of ethnic integration, where dryland agricultural culture and grassland nomadic culture collided and blended. Since the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the gorgeous style of writing in the Southern Dynasty spread to the north, which promoted the cultural exchange in the northwest and made Jinyang culture more prosperous. It is in such an environment that such excellent literary talents as Fu Jiamo and Wu Shaowei emerged, thus creating a unique style of "Fu Wu Style" prose style, which made Jinyang the birthplace of the ancient prose movement in the Tang Dynasty.

Wu's genealogy

Wu Yifang was famous for his erudition in the early Tang Dynasty. In 640 A.D., the imperial court recruited the world's famous Confucians to speak in Shezhou, Xin'an (now Xiuning, Anhui). Wu Yifang also participated in this grand gathering. Because he loved the beauty of the local landscape, his family moved here from Yuzhang (now Nanchang, Jiangxi). So far, a descendant of Wu Meng, the ancestor of zhenzizong, moved from Yuzhang, Jiangxi Province to Shezhou, Xin'an. Wu Yifang married Cheng and had three sons, the eldest son Wu Taiwei, the second son Wu Shaowei and the third son Wu Baowei. His second son, Wu Shaowei, was named cucai and qiangu. He was a Jinshi in the first year of Sisheng (A.D. 684). He was granted the title of Jinyang Wei and a Leiguan to Zuotai to supervise the censor. According to historical records, Wu Shaowei is good at literature and is known as the "three heroes of Beijing" together with Fu Jiamo and Wei Guyi. At that time, Xu and Yu were the masters of all the literati in the world, and their writing style was not competitive. Only Wu Shaowei and Fu Jiamo's articles were classic based, elegant, thick and majestic, and their writing style changed. They were respected by people at that time, and were called "Wu Fu ti". Wu Shaowei was very concerned about the clan history, and he once presided over the compilation of Wu's Orthodox genealogy. Wu Shaowei moved to shisheshan (now known as Fenghuangshan) in Xiuning. He was 87 years old and died in laobaidun, outside Beiguo, Xiuning, Xin'an. His descendants lived here and multiplied, forming the Wu family in Zuotai. The Wu family in Zuotai is a flourishing branch of the Wu clan. According to the records of Zuotai Wu's large genealogy, there are more than 70 branches of Zuotai Miao in Xin'an, with five main branches, namely Liantang school, Jinzhu school, Shiling school, Chengmen school and Fengshan school

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