A Study of the Artistic Style of Lu Zhaolin's Parallel Prose

In the four talents of the early Tang Dynasty, Lu Zhaolin shows unusual ingenuity his parallel writing. First, his sentence patterns are varied. Second, he writes with ease, grace and coherence. Third, his literary allusions are simple and unsophisticated but vivid and vigorous, and his words are fresh and chaste but full of emotions. And last but not least, he writes in a style of abiding affection full of melancholy and his personal philosophical thinking of life and society. Such writing, which shows his inheritage of the excellence of the Six Dynasties parallel prose, his innovation of parallel with his unique style, his distinctive experience of life, his thinking and his mentality, is his voluntary reform of parallel prose in the forefront of the literary current.