For a long time, there was no obvious boundary between China's literature and history and myth. The earliest documents are records of history and mythology. But pure literature appeared as early as the Zhou Dynasty, such as The Book of Songs. Later, poetry, ci, qu and novel reached their peak in Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing respectively. During the Republic of China, martial arts novels were popular at home and abroad and became the most popular popular novels at that time.
In the period of New China, online literature sprang up suddenly and became the most popular commercial work at present, but its level was uneven. Poetry is facing unprecedented difficulties in the new era. Only a group of vernacular poets created a lot, which also replaced ancient poems as the most popular poems at that time. Poetry was also neglected in the New China period.