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Mr. Hedong Sets 河东先生集 – Top 100 Books in China

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The ancient prose classics of landscape in China

Overview

Chinese Name: 河东先生集

English Name: Mr. Hedong Sets,Liu Hedong Sets

AuthorLiu Zongyuan 柳宗元,Liu Yuxi 刘禹锡

Originally Published: A.D. 792-907

Genre: Literature, poems

Brief Introduction of Mr. Hedong Sets

Mr. Hedong Sets 河东先生集 is also called Liu Hedong Sets 柳河东集. It is the ancient prose classics of the landscape. Its author is Liu Zongyuan. This work was edited by Liu Zongyuan’s friend Liu Yuxi at his request after his death. It includes all of Liu Zongyuan’s poems and articles. The original edition is 30 volumes but has since been lost. The current version is volume 45. It is rich in content, mainly divided into philosophy, political theory, fable, landscape travel notes, biography.

Fable is good at revealing the social and political situation at that time or explaining the life truth by means of figurative and symbolic rhetoric. It compares the famous “San Jie” 三戒.

Mr. Hedong Sets 河东先生集
A picture from The Snake Catcher Says —showing the tyranny of the government 《捕蛇者说》中表现政府苛政的画面

Liu Zongyuan’s landscape travel notes are excellent, which not only depict the quiet natural beauty of the motherland but also permeate the author’s life experience and depressed feelings, among which the representative work is Eight Records of Excursions in Yongzhou 永州八记.

Mr. Hedong Sets 河东先生集(柳宗元在小石潭)
Liu Zongyuan saw a fish in the quiet river. 柳宗元看见河里的游鱼。

The value of political works in the Mr. Hedong Sets is relatively high, such as “Theory of Feudal” 封建论, which shows Liu Zongyuan’s progressive political thought, with clear reasoning and rigorous argumentative.

Mr. Hedong Sets 河东先生集(目录和第一卷)
Table of contents and the contents of volume one 目录和第一卷的内容

Author of Mr. Hedong Sets

Mr. Hedong Sets was written by Liu Zongyuan and edited by Liu Yuxi.

Liu Zongyuan (773 AD — 819 AD) was a native of Shanxi Province 山西省. He was one of Eight Masters of the Tang and Song 唐宋八大家之一 and the main advocate of Classical Prose Movement 古文运动 in the Tang Dynasty 唐朝. He was also known as “Liu Hedong” 柳河东 and “Mr. Hedong” 河东先生.

Liu Zongyuan had a good family background and had been an official for generations. He had a keen interest in learning knowledge since childhood. Growing up in Chang ‘an 长安, he had seen and felt the corruption and incompetence of the imperial court and the crisis and turbulence of the society at that time.

When he was young, Liu Zongyuan was already famous and had a successful career in government. He participated in the Yong Zhen 永贞 reform led by Wang Shuwen 王叔文. After the failure of reform, Liu Zongyuan was repeatedly demoted as an official. He was also known as “Liu Liuzhou” 柳柳州 because he was appointed governor of Liuzhou.

In the winter of 819, Liu Zongyuan died of illness in Liuzhou. Liu Zongyuan’s life left more than 600 poems and articles and ” Mr. He Dong Sets ” spread in the world.

Liu Zongyuan 柳宗元
Liu Zongyuan 柳宗元

Liu Yuxi (772 ~842) was born in Luoyang 洛阳, Henan Province 河南省. He was a litterateur and philosopher in the Tang Dynasty. Liu Yuxi studied Confucian classics and wrote poems and Fu since he was young. He was smart and diligent. In 793, he took part in the Yong Zhen reform along with Liu Zongyuan, and when the reform failed, he was repeatedly demoted. In 842, Liu Yuxi died in Luoyang at the age of 71. Liu Yuxi’s poems and articles are excellent. Most of them are collected in the Liu Mengde Sets 刘梦得集.

Liu Yuxi 刘禹锡
Liu Yuxi 刘禹锡

Excerpts From Mr. Hedong Sets

青树翠蔓,蒙络摇缀,参差披拂。

VERDANT VINES COVER WINDING ON THE VERDANT TREES,THE WIND BLOWS,VINES SWAY LOW,JAGGED,VERY BEAUTIFUL.

日光下澈,影布石上,佁然不动。

The sun shone down on the bottom, and the shadows of the fish remained motionless on the rocks.

千山鸟飞绝,万径人踪灭。

All the mountains, the shadow of birds has disappeared, all the roads are not a trace of people.

Evaluation of Mr. He Dong Sets

Mr. Hedong Sets of articles is very imposing, grand, in a number of articles unsurpassed.

Ouyang Xiu 欧阳修

The words and sentences of Liu Zongyuan’s articles are rich and beautiful but simple, with profound and indifferent flavor.

Su Shi 苏轼

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