On Yuan Zhen's Ideas About Literature——Illustrated by Gu Gongbu Yuanwailang Dujun Epitaph

Yuan Zhen was an important poet and poetry critic in the Tang,for his important achievements in his poems of the yuefu stile,and reform in poetic writing.Despite the biased comments on Li Bai,his Du Fu are just and profound,leading to the establishment of Du Fu's status in classic poetry.Yuan Zhen's ideas about literature are characteristic of meticulousness,comprehensiveness and accurateness.The core is that literature should reflect the reality of life,and therefore his ideas are realistic by nature.