Han Yu (768-824) was born in Heyang, Henan Province (now Meng County, Henan Province). Originally from Changli, he was called Han Changli. A famous writer and thinker in Tang Dynasty. He was orphaned at an early age and was raised by his sister-in-law. 25-year-old, was appointed shortly after the Jinshi exam. At first, he wrote to the Prime Minister three times in Chang 'an, asking for a loan, but he was "on standby" for more than 40 days, but he was "unable to communicate" and "went to the door three times, but he was full of words." Frustrated this time, I had to go to Bianzhou to go to Dong Jin, the Xuanwu envoy. After Dong's death, he went to see Zhang Jianfeng, the ambassador of Wuning. His political career was so bumpy, and at that time, traitors were in power, politics was dark, and talents were not valued, which made him find it difficult to understand the Lord. It was in this mood that he wrote Ma Shuo in Zhenyuan116 (795-800).

In the 19th year of Zhenyuan (803), when he was appointed as an imperial adviser, he was demoted to Yinshan Order because of drought and hunger and wrote to forgive the people and exempt from land tax. In the 14th year of Yuanhe (8 19), he was killed several times for remonstrating with Xian Zongying's Buddhist bones. Later, he was demoted as the secretariat of Chaozhou (now Guangdong Province). Later, he was pardoned and returned to Beijing as an assistant minister of the official department, who once represented Beijing.

Han Yu was a famous leader of the ancient prose movement in the literary reform of the Tang Dynasty. He advocated "writing carries the Tao" and opposed the flashy style of writing, and put forward the slogans of "keeping words and keeping deeds". His prose, on the basis of inheriting the ancient prose of pre-Qin and Han dynasties, is innovative and developed, which is a kind of prose with innovative spirit from content to form. Han Yu was praised by his predecessors as the first of the "Eight Masters in Tang and Song Dynasties", and his ancient prose had a great influence on later generations.