Liu Fu, The Number One In Tang Dynasty

Liu Zongyuan’s Ci Fu is the important part of the Ci Fu field in Tang Dynastyand the Ci Fu history. It is greatly commended by scholars in Dynasties. Lin Shu saidLiu Zongyuan’s Ci Fu is the most of articles in Tang Dynasty. Sun Changwu thinksLiu Zongyuan is the number one in the field of learning from Sao Fu. Liu Zongyuancreates a lot of Fu works. The works are not only ideological but also innovative. LiuZongyuan innovates greatly on the basis of Qu Fu. His Ci Fu riches Fu’s artisticcontent and expression, reflects the highest level of Tang Dynasty’s Ci Fu field.We will discuss Liu Zongyuan’s Ci Fu from three respects in this article. Firstly,determine and classify Liu Zongyuan’s Ci Fu. In the filed of the study of LiuZongyuan’s Ci Fu, some works aren’t considered to be written by Liu Zongyuan. Thisarticle discusses that works and then clears the range of Liu Zongyuan’s Ci Fu,divides all of his Ci Fu into three categories.Secondly,Liu Zongyuan’s Ci Fu’s has a rich emotion world. Liu Zongyuan’spolitical fate change greatly. He is ever the center of the politics but banished finally.He misses his family and hometown but cann’t go back. So he feels angry anddisappointed. His fate is the same to Qu Yuan, so he can understand Qu Yuan’sthoughts and feelings more easier. Liu Zongyuan inherited Qu Yuan’s Sao Yuantradition. At the same time he exposes and criticizes the society more violently. In hisCi Fu works, he thinks deeply the reasons of political failure, criticizes villain,badpeople and dark society. And then he strengthenes his ideal good character, become tocare for the common people. All of them are affected by Qu Yuan.Liu Zongyuan’s Ci Fu have a lot of inheritance and innovation from Qu Yuan.There are many performances in his Ci Fu works. He directly used the words in QuFu, affected by Qu Yuan’s Sao Yuan thought. His <Tian Dui> is a work that answersQu Yuan’s <Tian Wen>. These are obvious manifestations. Liu Zongyuan’sinnovation mainly includes artistic techniques. Liu Zongyuan combines Yu Yan andCi Fu, created many Yu Yan Fu works. He combines Bi Xing and Ci Fu to deep theexpression ability of Ci Fu. He stresses caricature ability of Qu Fu. They have aprofound impact on future generations.Liu Zongyuan’s Ci Fu is praised the number one in Tang Dynasty mainlybecause of his inheritance and innovation from Qu Yuan. This article analyzes deeplyLiu Zongyuan’s Ci Fu’s ideological content and the same factor to Qu Yuan.Analyzes Liu Zongyuan’s Ci Fu’s innovation on artistic techniques. Stresses theimportant position in the development of Ci Fu history. On the other hand, we analyzeand discuss the controversial works in order to get a reasonable interpretation andconclusion.