| Sun Qiao, also named Kezhi and Yinzhi, known as a writer of prose in the late TangDynasty, lived in the period of Emperor Wen Zong, Wu Zong, Xuan Zong, Yi Zong, XiZong, which period Tang Dynasty was walking into extinction, and the society waschanging greatly and sophisticatedly.The main content of the article is the chronicle of Sun Qiao's life, his thought, thecontent of his prose, and the characteristic of his prose. In addition, others content aboutSun Qiao and the appendix. The chronicle of Sun Qiao's life, on the base of the study of LiGuangfu, Fu Xuancong, Chen Wenxin, lists his story, the writing time of the prose, and theimportant historical event year on year. The study of Sun Qiao's thought has three parts:historical thought, the inherit of Meng Zi, and the theory of writing. The article commentshis historical thought from four aspects: being conscious of his responsbilities as anofficial to record the history, the standard of collecting the materials, the traditioan ofresisting on the truth; and the language of the historical work, drawing a conclusion thatSun Qiao is one of the most outstanding historian in the late Tang Dynasty, and thehistorical thought is the spirit of his writing. After the initiative of Han Yu and establishingthe lofty position of Meng Zi, Sun Qiao applied Meng Zi's thought to the reality and putforward the theory "changing the emperor's mistake", which became one of the centralissue in Song Dynasty. Sun Qiao's writing theory developed from Han Yu and HuangfuShi, but, on one hand Sun Qiao and Huangfu Shi extended the Guai Qi theory to the fieldof Dao; on the other hand, Sun Qiao was different from Huangfu Shi, Sun Qiao's demandof artificial effect, xian and wei, with profound idea and skill phraseology, formed adialectical logic which effectively avoided the disadvantage of being difficult tounderstand. The content of Sun Qiao's prose, the comment of the important historicalevents ,worries concerning what he saw and heard, criticize of the current tendencies insociety, reflected the late Tang Dynasty entirely. The characteristic of his prose is theprofound idea and the skill phraseology. The profound idea was displayed by theinnovation of literary style, the original in conception, the implied meaning. The skillphraseology was displayed by discrible, rhetorical, allusion and words. The writing of SunQiao, Huangfu Shi, Liu Tui, Shen Yazhi was a dinstinctive view and a advantageous try.
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