Wu Jun Lu Family In The Tang Dynasty And Literature

Wujun Lu’s originated from the surname Gui, migrated from the North to the Wu during the Western Han Dynasty and developed into the notable clans of Wujun in the later stage of the Eastern Han Dynasty. During the Eastern Wu of the Three Kingdom period, Lu’s clan influence reached their peak by virtue of geographic proximity and the military achievements. After experienced the ups and downs of a few degrees from Jin Dynasty to Song and Qi Dynasty, Lu’s appeared many cultural figures, promoted higher officials by the literatural advantage and radicated the first place of the southeast "Wuxing" in the status of scholar official clans during Chen and Liang Dynasty. The northern aristocracies had an important influence on Lu’s development during the Six Dynasties.In the three prominent branches of Lu’s during the Tang Dynasty, there were various characteristics in the time of their flourishing and the main factors to affect the official promotion, which represented Lu’s development at various stages of the Tang Dynasty. Dantu branch at the first became the family with high officials, but soon eclipsed in the Tang Dynasty. Taiwei branch obtained official position by Mingjing and Zhi examination to be flourishing. And many of the family figures were high officials, gained great achievements and shifted to have passed Jinshi Examination in the late stage. In a word, the family maintained the status during all the Tang Dynasty period. Shilang branch was revived mainly through Jinshi Examination and had been illustrious and influential at the late stage of Tang Dynasty. In their marriage, Lu’s chose Jiangnan Old aristocracies as the main intermarriage objects before the Kaiyuan Period, and after the Kaiyuan they mainly intermarried with the old and the new aristocracies in the North, but they never intermarried with Shandong aristocracy and the royals.The Lu’s clan culture in the early Tang Dynasty stressed mainly on Classiques and Histoire, late on the both Classiques and Literatures. Compared with the general old aristocracy, Lu’s paid the special attention to Classiques in the late Tang Dynasty, which also have a significant impact on cultural outlook and literary development. Lu’s also had some figures in calligraphy who were inherent from the characteristics of the Southern Dynasties and had a certain impact on the spread of calligraphy.Lu’s literature development had a consistent trend with the changes of the literary status of Jiangnan in Tang Dynasty:in early Tang Dynasty, there was a quiet state in which the figures from prosperous Tang promoted "Four Scholar of Wuzhong" to be famous in the North; the figures from the mid-Tang Dynasty met in the Jiangnan literary world and actively responded to a poem with a poem each other; the figures from the late Tang played an important role. In middle and late Tang Dynasty, since they paid much attention to the Classiques Lu’s had many connections with the Guwen Movement including the politicians who promoted the Classic scholars, great Confucianists who deeply influenced the Confucian thought and main successors of the classical movement in the late Tang Dynasty. Lu’s participated in Jiangnan literary world and Guwen Movement both in the edge to the central role and played an important role in the exchanges of North-South literary.Among Lu’s cultural figures of Tang Dynasty, Lu Chun as a representative of the new development of Confucianism in mid-Tang had inherited and developed Dan Zhu, and Zhao Kuang’s doctrine, and contributed greatly to the development of the new "Spring and Autumn" School. Lu Changyuan’s "Bian Yi Zhi " contradicted the literature traditional of Zhiguai and reflected the scholar’s rational spirit in the mid-Tang Dynasty.