In the mid-Qing Dynasty, due to the frequent struggle of the imperial treasury, a group of imperial scholars were politically frustrated. Under Wang Wen's Luo Zhi, he sang a lamentation that predicted the decline of the feudal system, such as Yong Zhong's Poem of Yan Fen, Duncheng's Collection of Four Songtang, Dunmin's Mao Zhai Chao, etc. Many articles belong to this category. Only Tie Bao's poems, such as Test Horse, Gobi and Listen to the Rain beyond the Great Wall, are bold and vigorous, and still maintain the nomadic temperament.
In the late Qing Dynasty, the poetic circles in Manchu Dynasty were depressed, and only Gu Chun, Yi Hui, He Ying and so on achieved great success. Gu Chun's poems are profound, simple and sincere, and she is known as "the first poetess in Qing Dynasty". Yi's poems describe miners, insect catchers, gunners' sons, shepherds and street performers, and show sympathy for the lower working people. In the eighth year of Daoguang (1828), he was sent to Qiqihar as a co-worker and left a hundred poems in Butao City. He angrily condemned the evil in the world and expressed deep sympathy for the tragic experience of the working people.
Manchu novels include classical Chinese short stories and vernacular novels. He Bange's Notes on Nights contains 140 classical Chinese novels. He criticized the brutal officials who are greedy for money and profit, killing innocent people, and the stingy, greedy and stingy rich people. He sympathized with the people who suffered from the war and cared about the plight of the lower class flag. His works belong to exposed literature. The novel Firefly Window and Different Grass by Qinglan is similar in style and content, with the advantages of tortuous plot, complete structure and distinctive characters. Just because it imitated Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, it was not taken seriously.
Wenkang's vernacular novel Biography of Heroes of Children describes the decadent darkness of the Qing officialdom and creates thirteen sisters with rebellious characters. The fluent Beijing dialect and the vivid description of the life of the standard-bearer in the book constitute a series of unique ethnic paintings.
Manchu singing literature has a large number of authors. During the Qianlong period, Dai included two "Western Tunes" in Xunyang Poetry Draft. Zheng Zhenduo praised his "courage" in the history of Chinese popular literature. In the heyday of classicism, he was the first person to walk out of this classical trap and look for new materials among the people. Books that have been popular for 50 or 60 years were also produced during this period. Most of its authors are lower Manchu scholars, such as Zhuang, Han Xiaochuang, Miao, Xiaofeng and Chunshuzhai. Representative titles are Miss the Real Princess, Tears, Elopement with a Red Stroke, and A Cao Zhao Knocks His Teeth Off. There are also He Lv's Sigh of the Guard, Sigh of the Old Guard and Sigh of the Little Guard, which show the real life of the flag bearer. The author of Di Zi Shu has high skills in narrative lyricism, characterization, psychological description, scene contrast and atmosphere rendering, and there are still many jokes circulating among the people. Manchu rap forms include octagonal drum, Paiziqu, playing strings and tea songs. Some Manchu people also participated in the creation of cross talk, Jingyun Drum and Northeast Drum.
The prose categories of Manchu writers in Qing Dynasty include factual records, textual research, rambling about places of interest, anecdotes, scenery, customs, years of age and so on. Among them, Zhao Lian's Miscellaneous Notes on Xiao Ting, You Ching's Notes on the Outside of Heilongjiang, Lin Qing's Notes on the Cause of Hong Xue, Dunchong's Notes on the Years of Yanjing, and Zhen Jun's Notes on Chronicles of Heaven.
After the Revolution of 1911, works such as De Ling, Rong Ling and Jin Liang's Blood and Tears on Yingtai, Notes on Qing Palace and Notes on Qing Studies appeared. During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, a number of works of Manchu writers and artists emerged, such as dramas, poems and novels of Jin, an anti-Japanese martyr, which showed China people's patriotic enthusiasm and revolutionary integrity. After the founding of New China, Hooke's plays, novels by Guan Mo-nan and Li Huiwen, and long narrative poems by Homanson have all made gratifying achievements. Laoshe's Teahouse and Red Flag Spectrum are two masterpieces reflecting the life of the former flag bearer, which have a special position in the history of modern literature in China.