Study On Li Guan And His Prose

Li Guan, who styled himself as Yuan Bin.He was a writer in Middle Tangdynasty. He created the ancient prose strongly in the context of an age that parallelprose unified the world before the ancient script reform leaded by Han Yu. He made agreat contribution to the reform. He was a important person who push the coming ofthis reform. Li Guan also got a high evaluation.He was a good friend of Han Yu.LuXisheng thought his creation was as good as Han Yu’s. But after Song dynasty thefollowers became less and less.As one of the people who had the great ambition,Li guan worshiped theConfucianism and paid attention to the country and people. He had a greatcontribution to the creation of ancient prose.But unfortunately, he died when he wasvery young. This article will research Li guan and his works. It will research thecontents, artistic features and the relationships of them according to Li Guan’slife,personality and the social background of Middle Tang dynasty. It will also findthe differences between Li Guan’s works and Han Yu’s. Of course,it will try to findout why the two people had different reputation.The main purpose is to make ascientific orientation and evaluation about the meanings of Li Guan’s creation andachievement on ancient prose.