Historical prose and political prose are the most prominent prose in Han Dynasty. Sima Qian's Historical Records reflects the history with people as the center, creates a new style of biographical history books and opens up a new era of biographical literature, which is the most brilliant achievement of the Han Dynasty. Han Shu written by Ban Gu in the Eastern Han Dynasty is equally famous.
Yuefu Poetry and Wuyan Poetry are the most remarkable achievements in the Han Dynasty. Yuefu poetry in the two Han Dynasties is a new style of poetry after The Book of Songs and Songs of the South. The famous Peacock Flying Southeast is a narrative novel in Yuefu Poetry, and later generations called it "Three Wonders of Yuefu" together with Mulan Poetry in the Northern Dynasty and Wei Zhuang's Poem of Fu Qin in the Tang Dynasty.
Han Fu is another new style of literature in Han Dynasty. It is between poetry and prose, with both verse and prose. It is a poetic prose, and it is a poetic prose. It is eclectic and diverse in style, such as The Book of Songs, Songs of the South and pre-Qin prose. It has formed a comprehensive literary style with great capacity and expressive force.
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Literary Prose of Han Dynasty in Historical Records
In the style of Historical Records, Historical Records is divided into five parts, namely, the calendar year, which records the affairs of the emperor; Home, the matter of the princes; Biography, telling the story of people and ministers; Table, that is, memorabilia in tabular form; Books are the system of laws and regulations. Through these five parts, Historical Records formed a complete historical system and became the basic form of China's history books. The so-called "twenty-four histories" are headed by historical records.
As far as the literariness of Historical Records is concerned, it is first manifested in its narrative mode, and the objective narration with the third person is actually "including praise and criticism in the narrative". It tells a long history of 3,000 years and reproduces magnificent scenes and people's activities in history. Many biographies in Historical Records are based on a series of stories.