Originality: Pre-Qin literature is the first glorious page in the history of China literature. Literature came into being with the daily life of people in primitive society, such as labor, sacrifice and marriage. It developed with the development of society and became a grand view in the Zhou Dynasty. There are all kinds of literary forms, such as poetry, prose and ci fu, and there are obvious differences among historical prose, various schools of thought prose and applied prose.
Synthesis: In the pre-Qin era, literature, history and philosophy were not separated, but poetry, music and dance were integrated. Literature refers to all disciplines including politics, philosophy, history and literature. Advanced Analects of Confucius says that Confucius disciples Zi You and Xia Zi are good at literature, and "literature" generally refers to ancient documents.
Practicality: during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the society was in great turmoil, great change and great reorganization, and literature was generally practical, or it was issued for specific social problems, such as the folk song "Hungry people sing their food, laborers sing their things" in the Book of Songs; Or sum up historical experience and lessons, judge the merits of historical figures, and provide reference for the real society, such as judging the right and wrong in historical prose and judging suspects; Or reveal and solve real social problems, such as the concept of salvation that a hundred schools of thought contend; Or born out of resentment, attacking real politics, such as Qu Yuan's work Li Sao.
Randomness: randomness refers to the author's unrestricted expression, saying whatever he wants and saying whatever he wants. The original songs, myths and legends before the writing came into being naturally did what the human brain could think of and what the population could say.
The main contents of pre-Qin literature:
Folk songs and myths: Ancient folk songs and myths and legends are recorded in ancient books.
The Book of Songs: 40 poems, 65,438+005 Ya (6 Kubinashi orders, not counting), with the largest number of Feng, * * * 65,438+060, a total of 305 poems. The ancients took its integer and often said "poetry is 300".
Historical Prose: The first stage is represented by Shangshu and Chunqiu.
The second stage is represented by Zuo Zhuan and Guoyu.
The third stage is represented by the Warring States policy.
Prose of various schools of thought: It was formed and flourished in the academic atmosphere of the awakening of rational spirit and the contention of a hundred schools of thought in the pre-Qin period. The development of hundred schools of thought's prose has roughly experienced three stages:
At the turn of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period: The Analects of Confucius, Mozi and Laozi are the representatives.
Mid-Warring States Period: represented by Mencius and Zhuangzi.
The end of the Warring States Period: represented by Xunzi, Han Feizi and Lu Chunqiu.
Ci of Chu: refers to the poems and poems created with the local characteristics of Chu, such as music, language and famous things.