2. Warring States Period: Qu Yuan created a new poetic genre in Chu language, Chu Ci. The masterpiece is Li Sao.
3. Han Dynasty: The poems of Han Dynasty are represented by Yuefu, with simple and natural form, rich content and profound language. His representative works include Joining the Army in the Tenth Five-Year Plan, On Mulberry and Peacock Flying Southeast.
4. Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties:
(1) Jian 'an literature: represented by Cao Cao and his son and seven sons of Jian 'an. The seven sons of Jian 'an include Kong Rong, Chen Lin, RoyceWong, Xu Gan, Ruan Yu, Angelababy and Liu Zhen. Representative works include Cao Cao's Watching the Sea, short songs, Wang Shen's Seven Wounded Poems, and Cai Wenji's Poems for the Past.
(2) Pastoral poetry: Tao Yuanming of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, his representative works "Returning to the Garden" and "The Story of Peach Blossom Garden", with fresh and natural content and simple and elegant style.
5. Tang Dynasty: China's classical poetry entered a golden age in the Tang Dynasty.
(1) Early Tang Dynasty: Four outstanding figures in the early Tang Dynasty: Luo, Yang Jiong and Lu.
(2) In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, poetry achieved the greatest success and poets came forth in large numbers. The representative figures of landscape pastoral poetry are Wang Wei and Meng Haoran, who synthesized Wang Meng. The representative figures of frontier poems are Gao Shi, Cen Can and Wang Changling. However, among many poets, Li Bai is a "poetic immortal" and Du Fu is a "poetic saint" with the highest achievements. Li Bai's representative works include Looking at Lushan Waterfall, Difficult Road to Shu, Entering Wine, and First Making a City of Baidi, etc. Du Fu's representative works include Three Officials and Three Farewells. Three officials: Xin 'an official, Shi Haoguan and Tongguan official; Three farewells: farewell to the wedding, farewell to the old and welcome the new, and homelessness.
(3) Mid-Tang Dynasty: Poets advocated that poetry should reflect life, and the representatives were Bai Juyi and Liu Yuxi.
(4) In the late Tang Dynasty, before Du Mu and Li Shangyin started the atmosphere, their poems were touching. They are called "Little Du Li".
6. Song Dynasty: The main achievement of literature is "Ci".
(1) Bold School: Su Shi is the founder of Bold School, mainly representing Niannujiao Chibi Nostalgia, When is the Water Turning Head, etc. Xin Qiji inherited and developed Su Shi's bold and unconstrained ci style, and reached a high level in thought and art. His works often reveal grief over the division of mountains and rivers in the motherland and exude a strong flavor of the times. Representative works include "Bodhisattva Man's Book Building a Wall in Jiangxi" and "Broken Fighter's Watching the Sword with Drunk Light". Lu You's poems are full of bold and unconstrained works, expressing feelings for national affairs, and full of national humiliation and ambition. Masterpieces such as Xiuer and Visiting Shanxi Village.
(2) Graceful and restrained school: Liu Yong is the main representative of graceful and restrained school in Northern Song Dynasty. His ci mainly reflects the life of the citizens and has a strong flavor of the citizens. His representative works include Yulin Ridge and Wang Haichao. Li Qingzhao is also a master of graceful and restrained school and has the reputation of "the first talented woman in history". His representative works include Plum, Slow Voice, Like a Dream, Drunk Flowers, etc.
7. Yuan Dynasty: The main achievement of Yuan Dynasty literature is "Yuanqu", which is on an equal footing with Tang poetry and Song poetry in literary history.
Guan Hanqing, Bai Pu, Zheng Guangzu and Ma Zhiyuan are four writers of Yuan Zaju. They represent the achievements of different schools in different periods of Yuan Zaju, so they are called "four masters of Yuan Zaju". Among them, Guan Hanqing's Dou Eyuan, Bai Pu's Wu Tongyu, Zheng Guangzu's Beauty Away from the Soul and Ma Zhiyuan's Palace Mid-Autumn Festival are all famous works.