Abstract：The paper believes that Liu Zong-yuan, didn't like Han Yu, wrote prose according to his life, idea and disposition. So he lacked the consciousness of promoting prose with Han Yu together. Li Ao, one of Han Yu's students, paid more attention to history, while Zhang Ji liked poems better, and Huang Fushi preferred new things. We may also find the difficulties of prose's development from Zhang Ji and Li Ao's experience of learning ancient prose. Besides these, among Han Yu's other friends, Meng Jiao interested in poem-writing. Bai Ju-yi, Yuan Zhen and Liu Yu-xi laid stress on poems and claimed that they wouldn't talk about prose. All these facts showed that prose was weak in the society.
