Similarities and differences between Su Shi and Liu Zongyuan

1, Su Shi, Liu Zongyuan, their articles are all very successful. Both Liu Zongyuan and Su Shi were listed as "the Eight Masters of Tang and Song Dynasties" by later generations, and they played an important role in the development of China fable literature.

2. Both Su Shi's and Liu Zongyuan's articles are thoughtful. The fables of Liu Zongyuan and Su Shi are highly targeted in reality and are often allegories of major political issues at that time.

Su Shi and Liu Zongyuan are both famous politicians. Liu Zongyuan participated in the famous political reform in the late Tang Dynasty, and Su Shi made great achievements in the local area.

Second, differences.

They have different mentality. Su Shi's open-mindedness and optimism are beyond Liu Zongyuan's reach. They all set foot in Shan Ye to show their love for mountains and rivers, but Liu Zongyuan always remembers his own sufferings.

Extended data:

Su Shi's life is a typical aesthetic life, that is, it is his pleasure to immerse himself in literature and art and enjoy the hue, order, rhythm and harmony of the life universe.

Su Shi has a life thought based on the Confucian system, but the ups and downs of his official career make him full of contradictions between being born and entering the WTO, and because of his Buddhist and Taoist thoughts, he has formed a style of Confucianism outside and Taoism inside, which is reflected in an optimistic and broad-minded attitude towards life.

When Liu Zongyuan was born, the "Anshi Rebellion" had just been put down for 20 years. Although the short-lived peace existed for 20 years, the Tang Dynasty had already passed its peaceful and prosperous times and gradually declined.

In the seventeenth year of Zhenyuan (80 1), Liu Zongyuan was transferred to supervise the imperial history. Since then, he has made more friends with the upper echelons of the officialdom, gained a deeper understanding of the dark corruption of politics, and gradually sprouted the desire for reform, becoming an important figure of Wang's reformists.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-Su Shi

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Liu Zongyuan