Abstract: During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty,with the vigorous rise of archaistic trend of thought,the innovation of literary style and even literary form gradually became a common pursuit among many scholars.However,research that employs a “reverse chronology” approach and treats the Ancient Prose Movement as the endpoint often obscures the diverse explorations of archaistic scholars during this time.In fact,from the late Kaiyuan era onward,trends such as imitating Confucian classics through segment-by-segment or whole-text emulation and seeking ancient spirit to create new forms once gained popularity,though they rarely found successors after the Dali era.The method of “cutting ornament to return to simplicity”,which significantly reduced highly technical syntax such as interlaced parallelism in the parallel prose of Xu Ling and Yu Xin,reshaped the appearance of Tang Dynasty literature.Before the rise of the Ancient Prose Movement,archaistic scholars had in fact established a new literary form characterized by its liberal deployment of diverse syntactic structures,which stood in stark contrast to the Six Dynasties style defined by the combined use of simple parallelism and interlaced parallelism.

Key words: archaist scholors, archaistic literary style, archaistic trend of thought, the Ancient Prose Movement, interlaced parallelism