The position of poetry is still the most important. At the end of the Han Dynasty, under the social background of Wei Chu's "cold world, declining wind and people's resentment", literati's poetry creation entered a period of great development. During this period, with Cao Cao, Cao Pi and Cao Zhi as the core, Kong Rong, RoyceWong, Serina Liu, Chen Lin and other so-called "seven sons of Jian 'an" formed a group of people under Ye and created "Five Words". With a "generous" style of the times. Among them, Cao Cao's poems are gloomy and sad, reflecting the turbulent social reality and revealing the poet's ambition to make contributions and unify the world, such as Hao, Short, Walking Out of Xia Men, etc., which are all relatively successful chapters. Cao Zhi's literary achievements are the highest, and he is called Jian 'an, White Horse and Wang Biao for White Horse, which are his masterpieces in his early and later periods. His prose and ci also show high ideological and artistic quality, and the famous "Luo Shen Fu" is beautiful. RoyceWong is the most successful writer among the "Seven Sons", and his chapters such as Seven Wounded Poems and Ode to the Building are masterpieces with realistic spirit in Jian 'an literature.
At the turn of Wei and Jin Dynasties, with the change of social customs, poetry creation showed a different style from that of Jian 'an era. Ruan Ji and Ji Kang's works are either gloomy and difficult, or sharp-edged. They inherited the excellent tradition of Jian 'an literature and further promoted the development of five-character poems. During the period of Taikang in the Western Jin Dynasty, poetry flourished, and poets were known as "three books, two continents, two plates and one left", but most of their works were circulated in China, and many styles were adopted. His epic poems inherited the spirit of Jian 'an literature and opened up a new way to combine history with nostalgia. Under the influence of metaphysics in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, "unreasonable and tasteless" metaphysical poems flooded for a while. The great poet who can transcend the secular world is Tao Yuanming's era. "When Zhen Feng died, he was vain.". He left his job because of poverty, witnessed the darkness of officialdom and refused to go with him. Praising the tranquility of rural life also shows the joy and hardship of personally participating in agricultural production and labor, creating an artistic realm combining emotion, scenery and reason, which is the unity of simplicity and mellow beauty. Drinking in the Garden is his masterpiece of pastoral poetry. The style of Tao poetry naturally faded into the mainstream, but it was also shown by reading Shan Hai Jing (Jing Wei Fill Micro Wood) and Ode to Jing Ke. He hasn't forgotten the world. Tao Yuanming's poems have a great influence on later generations, especially the pastoral poetry school in Tang Dynasty. Tao Yuanming's literary achievements are manifold. Although his prose and ci are few in number, they are all excellent, such as Peach Blossom Garden, Gui Xi Ci, Pathetic Poems and so on.
During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, many literati devoted themselves to literary creation, and the main literary styles used were poetry and parallel prose. The poems of the Southern Dynasties shone brilliantly in Xie Lingyun's hands, and then Xie Tiao's landscape poems were fresh and mellow, which was called "Xie" in the world. The poet Bao Zhao was born in poverty, but he was good at expressing his cynical feelings with seven-character ancient poems. His seven-character poems contributed to the development of seven-character poems. For example, Li Daoyuan's Notes on Water Classics in the Northern Wei Dynasty, Yang Xuanzhi's Notes on Galand in Luoyang, and Yan Zhitui's Family Instructions on Yan Family in the Northern Qi Dynasty. The most successful writer is Yu Xin, a writer who walked from the south to the north. His poems and poems are masterpieces of northern and southern literature, which combine the exquisite and mature artistic skills of the south with the vigorous and hearty spirit of the north and become the forerunner of the poetic style of the Tang Dynasty. Parallel prose dominated the whole literary world in this period, while Bao Zhao's ".
In addition, Yuefu folk songs in the Southern and Northern Dynasties can also reflect Yuefu poems in the Han Dynasty. Wu Ge and Xiqu in the Southern Dynasties are lively and graceful, while the minority songs in the Northern Dynasties are vigorous and cheerful, with different styles, but they are sincere.
As far as the formation and development of China's ancient novel genre is concerned, the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties is an important stage. Strange stories and anecdotes appeared. Among them, Gan Bao's Searching for the Gods in Jin Dynasty and Liu Yiqing's Shi Shuo Xin Yu in Southern Dynasties deserve the most attention. Shi Shuo Xin Yu recorded the anecdotes of many upper-class gentry figures from Han Dynasty to Jin Dynasty, with vivid charm and concise and delicate narration, which really set a precedent for later note novels.
Due to the gradual consciousness of literary consciousness, Cao Pi's Classic Papers, Lu Ji's Wen Fu, Liu Xie's Wen Xin Diao Long, Zhong Pei's Shi Pin and other literary works appeared in this period. The latter two works are epoch-making masterpieces in the history of China's literary theory.