晚唐李肇有“贞元之风尚荡”的说法。陈寅恪等先生认为中唐时出身于庶族的进士阶层浮薄放荡、不通经术、不守礼法。然而“尚荡”的主体并不单纯是庶族进士而应包括所有贞元时初露头角的举子和初入官场的官员。“贞元之风尚荡”包括学术思想的自由、速功思想、人格上的平等意识、刻意的耿介其行以及创作上的坦荡真率等多层含义。贞元士人的“荡”来自于对自身学识、修养、人生目标等的自信和拯时济弊的社会责任感。 Li Zhaoyu in the late Tang Dynasty “Chanyuan fashion swing ” argument. Chen Yinke and other gentlemen think that when the middle school was born in the scholar’s class scholar arrogant, unreasonable, not abide by the law. However, the subject of “Shangsang” is not merely an affair of the scholar but should include all the debutants and officials who entered the officialdom. “Chanyuan fashion ” Including academic freedom of thought, merits and demerits, equality of consciousness of personality, deliberately mediated his works and creation of the magnanimous truthfulness and other layers of meaning. The “swing” of the people of Zhenyuan comes from the sense of social responsibility of self-confidence and time-saving and cons of their own knowledge, accomplishment and life goals.