As we all know, China is a country of poetry, and our country has a very long cultural heritage of poetry. As early as the pre-Qin period, people in ancient China began to create poems, and China's first collection of poems, The Book of Songs, appeared. The appearance of The Book of Songs marks the beginning of China's ancient poetry. After that, the development of poetry was very rapid, from Han Yuefu to Tang poetry, to Song Ci and Yuan Qu, and the development of China's poetry gradually reached its peak.
When did China appear in the pre-Qin period of the novel? Novel? But at that time? Novel? More like documentary literature. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the rise of literati's notes made the novel have a real prototype, and Gan Bao's The Search for God in the Eastern Jin Dynasty was the beginning of China's ancient mythological novel. In the Tang Dynasty, the rise of Tang legends gave space for the development of novels, and classical novels were formally formed. With the development of printing in Song and Ming Dynasties, novels also developed rapidly. Four classic novels? The appearance of novels marks the peak of China's classical novels.
Prose Prose appeared very early in China. In the early days, philosophers in China used prose to record their thoughts. In the pre-Qin period, a hundred schools of thought contended was a famous prose writer. In later generations, the rise of the Eight Masters in Tang and Song Dynasties pushed prose to a climax again.
Drama China's drama originated from the song and dance of sacrifice in primitive society. Before the Five Dynasties, China's plays were mainly in the form of songs and dances. In the Song Dynasty, drama began to develop rapidly, forming Southern Opera in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, and then local operas in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, which pushed China's drama to a climax. In the late Qing Dynasty, Huiban went to Beijing, and on this basis, Peking Opera gradually took shape and became one of the most important operas in China.