Abstract:
The works of prose Fu by the four representative writers, Sima Xiangru, Yang Xiong, Ban Gu, and Zhang Heng, showed a more and more prominent tendency of politicization, in which argument took a more and more proportion, and the author's view became clearer and clearer. The stress of the prose Fu turned from discussing common social phenomena in a general sense to expounding political views specifically, which contained not only criticisms but also political ideas and advocates. For the form of expression, the prose Fu started by one party criticizing the other party, and continued with the two parties disputing over one issue by respectively quoting the classics. All these changes owed much to conversion of the prose Fu writers' consciousness of writing and to the style of writing formed under the influence of classics.
