Characteristics of the Development and Change of China Ancient Literature

Before the Spring and Autumn Period, there were books on systematic etiquette, people's livelihood sufferings and historical materials of the kingdom, such as The Book of Songs and Shangshu. A hundred schools of thought contend, mainly on the prose world; There were basically no literary achievements in the Qin dynasty, only some stone carvings that praised; Confucianism flourished in the Han Dynasty, and the main documents were Confucian classics (ancient classics and modern classics), poetics (fu and ancient poems) and historiography (historical records and Han books). At the end of the Han dynasty, the great fu declined, and the four-character poem flourished; Metaphysics prevailed in Wei and Jin Dynasties, and poetry still prevailed, with seven or five sentences as the main ones, and there were many essays in the literary style. In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the metrical pattern of poetry was valued, and the theory of "four tones and eight diseases" appeared, and Buddhism began to rise. Sui and Tang Dynasties were dominated by modern poetry, and prose flourished at the end of the Tang Dynasty. . . . . . I haven't learned it since, so I'm not very clear.