作为清初著名的一个文人团体,以魏禧为首的易堂九子对明代文坛积弊进行了深刻反思,重倡复古,以正文风。在理论上,他们对明代秦汉派与唐宋派进行了整合,主张打破门户之见,由唐宋上追秦汉,而这正是清初文章复古的主流思想,在明清之际文风的转变过程中具有积极意义。目前学界在论及清初文章之取径时,大抵认为以唐宋八家为独宗,这实与事实不符。

As a famous group of writers in early Qing Dynasty,nine writers in Yi-tang (易堂九子) with Wei Xi as head reflected upon the literary long standing abuse in Ming Dynasty,so they redressed the literary style through restoration. In theory,they proposed to break the sectarian jaundice and learned from writers in any dynasty,and stood to learn from the writers in Tang and Song to Qin and Han Dynasty. Therefore,their revival theory of ancient prose was the integration of Tang-Song School and Qin-Han School of Ming Dynasty. In fact,this was the literary mainstream in that time,and had an active meaning to change the literary style in early Qing Dynasty and an important position in the history of literary theory of Ming and Qing Dynasty. About revival ideas in early Qing Dynasty,academics probably think that the prose learned only from the eight writers in Tang and Song Dynasty,this conclusion in fact violate the facts.