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Selected Poems of the Four Heroes of the Early Tang Dynasty

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The "Four Heroes of the Early Tang Dynasty" refers to the collective name of Wang Bo, Yang Jiong, Lu Zhaolin, and Luo Binwang, the four writers of the early Tang Dynasty in China, referred to as "Wang Yang Lu Luo". The four heroes are equally famous, which originally refers to their poetry but mainly refers to parallel prose and fu. Although their poems and prose have not lost the beauty of the Qi and Liang Dynasties, they have initially changed the literary trend. Their poems range from the court to life, with a wider range of themes and a clearer style. Lu and Luo's seven-character songs tended to be more poetic and more powerful; Wang and Yang's five-character rhymes began to become standardized and had sonorous tones. Parallel prose is also full of flexibility and liveliness in its richness of words. The Four Heroes were figures in the transitional period between the old and the new in the literary world of the early Tang Dynasty.