Ouyang Xiu leads literary renaissance at Song court
1047
The historian, poet, and official Ouyang Xiu championed a movement to strip Chinese prose of its ornamental excesses and return to the clear, direct style of the classical masters. His advocacy of guwen, ancient-style writing, reshaped Chinese literature and established the aesthetic standards that would govern formal prose composition for the rest of the imperial era.
In context
Also in 1047 (3 other events on record)
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- Suryavarman I dies after half a century of rule · Southeast Asia · Politics
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Era
High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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