Qin and Han literature has made great achievements in four aspects: ci fu, historical biography, political theory and Yuefu poetry.
Most of the characteristics of China culture are realism mixed with political embellishment. When politics is brilliant, the style of writing tends to sing praises. When politics is dark, literati and poets all begin to retreat to the mountains and chant mountains and rivers, or some cynics begin to attack the darkness and expose reality, but most of these radical articles are short and pithy.
In fact, China's culture, or China's thinking, mostly follows the Confucius and Mencius' way of Laozi and Zhuangzi, either "learning to be excellent is to be an official" or "wandering in the rivers and lakes", interacting with Yin and Yang, and the golden mean.
Historical prose "Historical Records";
Historical Records is the first biographical general history of China and the first of the twenty-four histories. It was originally called Taishi Gong Shu or Taishi Gong Gong Ji and Taishi Gong Ji. As a general history, it is different from previous historical books, such as Spring and Autumn Annals and Warring States Policy, which only record a certain period. But from Xuanyuan to Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty for more than 3,000 years, which was all-encompassing, comprehensive and clear, and recorded the political, economic, military and cultural development of ancient China.
As a biographical style, it is different from the chronological style of the previous generation of history books, or the national style with geographical boundaries, but reflects the historical content with biography as the center. This is a pioneering work with far-reaching influence in the history of historical style. Since then, the most important "Ji" and "Biography", from Han Shu written by Ban Gu to the Draft of Qing History in the early years of the Republic of China, have followed the style of Historical Records and become orthodox, although the revised historical books in the past two thousand years have been supplemented and changed in individual names.