本文介绍了韩愈、柳宗元关于古文复兴的前提条件,阐释了“轴心时代”与唐代古文运动的内容与实质:韩愈、柳宗元以理论以及写作实践倡导,涉及文体演变规律、社会政治等因素,也渗透着先秦时代的人文品格与文化内核,名为复古,实为文体文风的创新发展,更是对先秦理论与精神的回望与复归,以此为轴心完成了理论的更深发展,并实现自己革新的目的,于复古继承中又有创新。 This paper introduces the preconditions of Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan on the revival of ancient Chinese, and expounds the content and essence of the “Axial Age” and the prose movement in the Tang Dynasty: Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan advocated by theory and writing practice, involving the evolution of style and social politics Factors also infiltrated the humanist character and cultural core of the pre-Qin era. It was called retro and literary style. It is also the retrospect and reversion of the theory and spirit of pre-Qin Dynasty. As a result, the deepening development of the theory was completed , And achieve the purpose of their own innovation, but also in the retro inheritance of innovation.