1. The emergence and development of pre-Qin literature was roughly synchronized with history and culture. Music, dance, painting and plastic arts were related and influenced each other. From the Paleolithic Age to the early Neolithic Age in China, carvings on rocks or The rock paintings painted are distributed in more than 100 counties, cities, and banners in more than 20 provinces and autonomous regions, including today's Hong Kong and Taiwan. The most famous ones are the Yinshan Rock Paintings in Inner Mongolia, Cangyuan Rock Paintings in Yunnan, Huashan Rock Paintings in Guangxi, and Lianyungang Rock Paintings. The rock paintings at Jiangjun Cliff, Hutubi Rock Paintings in Xinjiang, Gangcha Rock Paintings in Qinghai, and Heishan Rock Paintings near Jiayuguan. The content of the rock paintings reflects nature worship, totem worship and primitive hunting, farming, dancing, etc., and the shapes are simplified and symbolic. The rock paintings may be the predecessor of ancient writing. More than a dozen bone flutes were unearthed from the Jiahu Neolithic site in Wuyang, Henan, most of which have seven holes, capable of playing a seven-tone scale, and some have small tuning holes. Jingcun, Wanrong County, Shanxi The pottery xun unearthed from the Banpo site in Shaanxi is not made according to absolute pitch, and one xun hole can produce four tones. The pottery craftsmanship of the Neolithic Age is quite exquisite, and most of the pottery is painted with cord patterns, basket patterns, string patterns, and square patterns. Or animal and plant-shaped patterns, beautiful appearance, exquisite workmanship, daily necessities have a high aesthetic value, there are many pure works of art stone and jade, such as the stone heads in the Cishan Culture sites, the Liangzhu Culture sites The animal-faced jade rings, mountain-shaped jade ornaments, jade congs, dragon-phoenix-shaped jade pendants, hook-shaped cloud-shaped jade pendants, and jade pig dragons in the Longshan culture show the achievements of plastic arts and the development of aesthetic consciousness. Primitive society painting, music and modeling With art being so developed, it is reasonable for literature to emerge. Since literature is an art of language, words and writing tools have not yet been produced, and no original records have been left.
2. The main achievements of pre-Qin literature are poetry and prose. Pre-Qin literature laid a solid foundation for the prosperity and development of Chinese literature. It nurtured writers of all eras; its romantic and realist creative methods have had a profound impact on literary creation over the past two thousand years.