On the Tint of the Historical Science in the Different Writing Styles of OUYANG Xiu’s Prose

Ouyang Xiu,who is very conversant with ancient and modern learning and has a very wide range of interests,integrates his understanding of history and thinking about life,society,and nature into his prose when composing.Thus,his works is permeated with both beauty of literature prose and a heavy and deep sense of history,which makes his prose have a unique charming.His strong consciousness of history and solid literary cultivation also make his prose full of the colors of historic literature.And these also affect the types and the styles of his writings greatly.