The eight masters in Tang and Song Dynasties are the general names of the eight masters' prose writers, which refer to Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan in Tang Dynasty, Ouyang Xiu, Su Xun, Su Shi, Su Zhe, Wang Anshi and Ceng Gong in Song Dynasty.

In the early years of Ming Dynasty, a scholar named You Zhu chose their articles and compiled them into the Collection of Eight Masters, from which the names of the eight schools began. Eight masters were the central figures who presided over the ancient prose movement in Tang and Song Dynasties. They advocated prose with substance in words and opposed the red tape of the Six Dynasties, which had a great influence on the literary world at that time and later.