The comparison between Yu Xin and Wang Bo

Answer 1

Yu Xin (513 - 581) was a famous writer during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, while Wang Bo (650 - 676) was a writer and poet of the Tang Dynasty.

From the perspective of family background, Yu Xin was born in a noble family. His family had been elected as a scholar for seven generations and had collected works in the Five Dynasties. His father, Yu Jianwu, was the secretary of Nanliang. Wang Bo was born in a Confucian family and was the grandson of Wang Tong, a litterer, ideologist and educating scholar in the early Tang Dynasty.

In terms of literary schools and styles, Yu Xin and Xu Ling were both scholars of the Eastern Palace under Xiao Gang in the early days, and became the representative writers of palace literature. His literary style was known as the "Xuyu Style". His poems and Fu changed the Western Han Dynasty's prose into parallel prose, making Fu more beautiful in form and opening the precedent of the Tang Dynasty's poetry into Fu. Wang Bo advocated "Qi Lingyun Han" in parallel prose, establishing a fresh pattern of broad atmosphere and handsome backbone for Tang parallel prose. He opposed the flashy style of writing in the Six Dynasties, pursued high-spirited poetic style, and advocated the connection between content and reality in poetry creation.

In terms of life experience, Yu Xin had experienced the rebellion of Hou Jing. After the Liang Dynasty was destroyed, he went from the south to the north. He had experienced the Western Wei Dynasty and the Northern Zhou Dynasty. On the one hand, he was a noble and was respected as a master of the literary world. He was treated politely by the emperor and made friends with the kings. On the other hand, he deeply missed his hometown and was ashamed of being an enemy. He was resentful because he could not be free. Wang Bo was smart and studious since childhood. He was able to write at the age of six. Later, he successively served as Chaosanlang, Pei Wang Fu Xiuzhuan, Guozhou Army, etc. However, he was ousted and expelled from Pei Wang Fu because of his play "Xi Ying Wang Ji Wen." Later, he was convicted of hiding and killing official slaves. He was pardoned and removed from his name. In the second year of Shangyuan (AD 675), he wrote "Preface to Tengwang Pavilion" on his way to visit his father in Jiaozhi. In the third year of Shangyuan (AD 676), he unfortunately drowned in the sea.

In terms of the influence of literary achievements, Yu Xin's writing style merged with the Northern and Southern literary styles in his later years, forming a style that was both "elegant" and "mature", which influenced the poetry creation of Du Fu and Li Shangyin in the Tang Dynasty. Wang Bo, Yang Jiong, Lu Zhaolin, and Luo Binwang were known as the "Four Heroes of the Early Tang Dynasty". His poetry creation ideas created favorable conditions for the prosperity of poetry in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. In his representative parallel prose "Preface to the Pavilion of King Teng","Sunset clouds and lone ducks fly together, autumn water shares the same color as the sky" became a famous sentence for thousands of years. However, this sentence was created by borrowing Yu Xin's "Falling flowers and Zhi cover fly together, willows share the same color as the flag of spring".

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