2. Tang poetry is the most familiar to us. No one knows a few words about "such a bright line is at the foot of my bed and may there be frost?" . Tang poetry is a valuable cultural heritage in China, which has great influence on China and the world. Poetry is called Tang Poetry because it reached its peak in the Tang Dynasty and belongs to the greatest period in the history of China literature. Tang poetry inherited the achievements of poetry since the Han, Wei and Six Dynasties, and gradually developed into the stereotypes of modern Tang poetry in an imperfect state. According to the development of Tang Dynasty, Tang poetry can be divided into four stages. The early Tang Dynasty was represented by "four outstanding men in the early Tang Dynasty", Li Bai in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, Bai Juyi in the middle Tang Dynasty and Little Du Li in the late Tang Dynasty. Because the imperial examination system takes Tang poetry as the examination content, it is very prosperous economically and has a great accumulation in culture, so poetry reached its peak in the Tang Dynasty. Also called Tang poetry.
3. Song Ci, in the same way, is called Song Ci because Ci reached its peak in the Song Dynasty. With the development of commodity economy and the expansion of citizen class in Song Dynasty, people's entertainment life has become more diverse, and the rigorous literary format of poetry can no longer satisfy the expression of people's thoughts and feelings. Ci appeared before the Song Dynasty, but with the development of literati in the Song Dynasty, it gradually became an authentic knowledge. Its format is diverse, and there are not too many requirements for words, which is more suitable for people to express their feelings at that time.
4. A new style appeared in Yuan Dynasty. Qu, including zaju and Sanqu, was first circulated among the people and was called "street poetry" or "country minor". With the destruction of the Song Dynasty in the Yuan Dynasty, it spread in the north and south with Beijing and Hangzhou as the center. On the one hand, Yuanqu inherited the beauty and gracefulness of poetry; On the one hand, in the Yuan Dynasty, the soldiers and soldiers were placed in the position of "eight prostitutes, nine men and ten beggars", and the political monopoly and social darkness made Song Yuan radiate extremely dazzling fighting brilliance and reveal rebellious feelings; Pointed out sharply the social ills.
China's novels flourished in Ming and Qing Dynasties. The novels of this era contain the essence of traditional culture to the greatest extent in ideological connotation and theme expression, and after the secularization of illustrations, traditional culture has entered thousands of households with emotional images and touching stories. Since the Ming Dynasty, novel, as a literary form, has fully demonstrated its social function and literary value, broken the monopoly of orthodox poetry, and achieved the status of literary history on a par with Tang poetry, Song ci and Yuan qu. The Qing Dynasty was a period when China's classical novels flourished and declined and turned into modern novels. China's novels began to take shape in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, which prepared the conditions for the prosperity of novels in Ming and Qing Dynasties.
6. Each era has its own corresponding literary features, which are closely related to the political, economic and social reality at that time. Tang poetry, Song lyrics, Yuanqu and novels of Ming and Qing Dynasties are unique in the history of China literature. They are all classics of China culture. We should take its essence, discard its dross, criticize and inherit, and make the past serve the present.