China's first collection of poems-The Book of Songs
China's First Chronological Epic-Zuo Zhuan
China's First National History Book —— Mandarin
China's First Biographical History Book-Historical Records
The Analects of Confucius, China's first recorded Confucian classic prose.
China's first military work, The Art of War.
China's first historical prose devoted to a person's words and deeds-Yan Zi Chun Qiu.
China's First Chronological History Book Han Shu
China's first monograph on literary criticism-Cao Pi's Classic Papers.
China's first monograph on poetry theory and criticism--zhong rong's poems.
China's first popular science work-Shen Kuo's Meng Qian Bi Tan
China's First Hydrogeology Monograph —— Notes on Water Mirror
China's First Famous Opera —— Guan Hanqing's Dou E Yuan
China's First Diary Travels —— Xu Hongzu's Travels of Xu Xiake
China's First Romantic Myth Novel —— Journey to the West in Wu Cheng'en
China's First Satire Novel —— Wu's The Scholars
Pu Songling's Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio is the first collection of short stories in classical Chinese written by individuals in China.
China's first lyric poem-Li Sao
China's First Narrative Poem —— Peacock Flying Southeast.