Wu Rong was born in the fourth year of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (850) and died in the third year of Tianfu in Tang Zhaozong (903) at the age of 54. The night he was born was in the late Tang Dynasty, which was more chaotic, contradictory and dark than the previous dynasty. Three years after his death, the once prosperous Datang Empire entered history. Therefore, Wu Rong can be said to be one of the witnesses of the demise of the entire Tang Empire.

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Wu Rong was born in Yin Shan, Yuezhou (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang).

In the sixth year (865), Wu Rong began to take the imperial examination in Xian Tong, and it was not until Long Jiyuan (889) was forty years old that he won the top prize. After Wu Rong took the first place, his career was not smooth. First, Wei Zhao and I went to Shu to pacify the chaos, but we failed. After returning to the imperial court, he was an official admonisher and was demoted to Jingnan; In the third year (896), Gan Ning was recalled to the capital as a doctor of rites, and later served as a bachelor of Hanlin, an official in Zhongshu, and unfortunately met Zhu Quanzhong in the year of recovery (90 1), which caused Wu Rong to escape from the capital and live in Kanxiang; It was three years later (in 903) that he was recalled to Ren Hanlin, moved to accept the order, and finally died in Ren Hanlin's post. Throughout his life, his official career was ups and downs, and after several reuse, he was relegated or exiled, which was closely related to the turbulent political situation in the late Tang Dynasty. The chaotic political situation led to Wu Rong's wandering all his life, and also created his contradictory and melancholy character and poems shrouded in light sadness.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, politics was harmed by cronies, eunuchs and buffer regions at the same time, and the reigning kings were mostly young and fatuous. Natural and man-made disasters continued, and various social chaos and ills were numerous, which made the decline of the country more serious in the late Tang Dynasty and made it more difficult for people to live under heavy tax pressure. The miserable situation of people living in poverty, coupled with political and social chaos, is very influential for poets who have always been delicate and sensitive. Faced with all kinds of political chaos, poets are allowed to express their dissatisfaction with poems and pens, and those who are angry and eager to express social chaos with poems hope to play a positive role in irony and persuasion; People who are negative and disappointed will focus on themselves, or indulge in debauchery or avoid the world, while the poetic style is light, beautiful or indifferent. There are even a group of poets who have been in contact with the lower classes for a long time and know the sufferings of the people. They have suffered from poverty and disease for many years, and their poems are very dangerous and cold. Besides the influence of political, social and literary atmosphere, making friends with friends often affects a person. Besides officials and officialdom colleagues, Wu Rong's friends also have many famous poets, such as Guan Shixiu, Pi Rixiu, Lu Guimeng, Fang Gan, Han Wo, etc., which also have a certain influence on Wu Rong. Therefore, Wu Rong's poems present rich and varied styles. He has satirical works aimed at the contemporary world, erotic works obsessed with money, and works advocating indifference, leisure or indifference. The themes of Wu Rong's poetry creation can be roughly divided into four categories: giving gifts and rewards, traveling, praising people and things, and expressing personal feelings. Although all the themes present different contents and express different themes, the most special thing is that no matter what theme is created, it expresses the contradiction between Wu Rongshi and Yin, this dilemma and the chaos in the late Tang Dynasty. Wu Rong's artistic expression, like his poems, presents a variety of writing styles. In terms of style, Wu Rong mainly created the law of approaching the body, of which seven laws are the most important. He is good at various styles at the same time, but there are not many. In the aspect of melody, Wu Rong's requirements for even tones and rhymes are quite elaborate, emphasizing the complementarity between melody and poetry content, making syllables harmonious and elegant; In the aspect of allusion, Wu Rong often quotes allusions, saying nothing, but there is no cliche. Instead, we can use twists and turns to express our thoughts, and at the same time, we can use allusions openly, secretly, flexibly and reversely, so that poetry will not stagnate. In rhetorical expression, we can use overlapping words, colors, antithesis and other techniques, with visual, auditory and other senses, so that poetry can be presented to readers delicately and vividly. However, scholars have always had a low evaluation of it, and most of them are confined to the humble and weak poems in the late Tang Dynasty, which have no spirit of * * *, or the voice of national subjugation, which is not worth talking about, and even comment on Wu Rong's few gorgeous works. These are unfair. Wu Rong reflects reality and expresses thoughts with his unique poetic pen. In the gloomy and beautiful voice of the times, he still refused to escape from reality and could not bear to abandon the suffering people, so that he showed contradictions, hesitation, sadness, melancholy and indifference everywhere, which was very similar to the atmosphere of the late Tang Dynasty. How can a poet who reflects the characteristics of the times in so many ways simply use "beauty"? Moreover, some of Wu Rong's poems with irregular sentence patterns and vulgar language are probably one of the sources of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, and their importance cannot be ignored. In a word, Wu lived in the troubled times at the end of the Tang Dynasty, and his poems also reflected the style of the whole era. As a bridge connecting the late Tang, Song and Yuan Dynasties, the word "beauty" is by no means enough. If we put Wu in the long history of literature, we can see that he has an irreplaceable position and value in the history of literature.