Representative works: Tianjiayu, Gourmet Man and Border People.
Function: connecting the past with the future, from "elegance" to "vulgarity".
Features: poetic interest? .
The literature of Song Dynasty mainly covers ci, poetry, prose, story-telling novels, drama scripts, etc. Among them, ci has the highest creative achievement, followed by poetry and prose, followed by story-telling novels.
The literary works of the Song Dynasty inherited the style of the early Northern Song Dynasty and the late Tang Dynasty, with colorful words, which were mostly used for singing and responding. With Wang Yucheng's concern for people's livelihood and the court's attention to Confucianism, literary writers began to attach importance to the missionary function of Confucianism, but their achievements were not high. It was not until the second ancient prose movement brought by Ouyang Xiu that literary talents began to write in plain language, and the content reflected the disadvantages of life, and literary creation entered a peak. The literature of Song Dynasty has an important and special position in the history of China literature development, which is in the stage of connecting the past with the future, that is, the period when China literature changed from elegance to vulgarity.