Including various schools of thought prose and historical prose. Hundred schools of thought's essays are mainly expositions, such as The Analects of Confucius, Mencius and Zhuangzi. Historical prose mainly focuses on historical themes, and all articles and books describing historical events and historical figures are historical prose, such as Zuo Zhuan.
Pre-Qin prose is an important development period of China's classical prose, which refers to the prose from the post-Yin-Shang period to the end of the Warring States period. According to the current literature, the earliest "written literature" in China should have originated from Oracle Bone Inscriptions and Jinwen in Shang Dynasty, including the records of verse and prose, which is the origin of prose.
Then, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, due to the social and cultural changes, it provided a good environment for the development of prose, which made prose move towards the first golden age of China's classical prose.
2. Han dynasty
Sima Qian's Historical Records in the Western Han Dynasty pushed biographical prose to an unprecedented peak. After the Eastern Han Dynasty, individual prose forms such as books, notes, inscriptions, essays and prefaces began to appear. Sima Xiangru, Yang Xiong, Ban Gu and Zhang Heng were praised as the four masters of Han Fu by later generations.
3. Tang and Song Dynasties
Under the impetus of the ancient prose movement, prose writing became more and more complicated, and literary prose appeared, resulting in many excellent works such as landscape travel notes, fables, biographies and essays, and the famous "Eight Masters of Tang and Song Dynasties" also emerged at this time.
4. Ming dynasty
At first, the "Seven Sons" mainly imitated ancient times. Later, in the Tang and Song Dynasties, it was advocated that works "all flowed out from the chest", and Gui Youguang was famous.
5. Prose in Qing Dynasty: Prose in Qing Dynasty, represented by Tongcheng School, pays attention to the embodiment of "righteousness". Yao Nai, a representative writer of Tongcheng School, summed up the style of ancient Chinese prose and classified it into 13 categories, including argumentative essays, prefaces and postscripts, recitation, calligraphy, preface, imperial edict, biography, epitaph, miscellaneous words, ode, ci fu and mourning.
6. Modern Times
Refers to a literary style on an equal footing with poetry, novels, plays, etc. It is characterized by expressing the author's views and feelings and revealing its social significance through the description of some fragments or life events in real life.
Can be processed and created on the basis of real people and things; It doesn't necessarily have a complete story and characters, but focuses on expressing the author's feelings about life, with flexible material selection and strong lyricism. "I" in prose is usually the author himself.
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1, Ouyang Xiu
Ouyang Xiu is not only an ancient prose writer, but also a master of poetry, ci, fu and four or six levels of parallel prose. In addition, he has a lofty position in politics and academia. His music and voice guide young people and reward those who fall behind, so he becomes a leader in the literary world.
Communicate with his friends, Mei and Su Shi, and promote each other with his disciples, Wang Anshi and Su Shi, so that the popularization of ancient Chinese literature has formed a powerful trend and achieved more mature and universal achievements than in the Han and Liu Dynasties.
2. Ceng Gong
Ceng Gong, Zizigu, was born in Nanfeng, Jiangxi. At the age of thirty-nine, he was admitted to the Jinshi, and the official reached the middle book. Ceng Gong, known as the master of ancient prose of Tongcheng School, attaches great importance to the strictness of righteousness and law, and the layout of the whole article must be clear-cut, so that people can see at a glance and have rules to follow.
The content of his works is the same as that of Ogun and Ming Dow. Zeng's representative works include Reading Jia Yi's Biography, On the Tang Dynasty, Shu Wei's Biography, Mo Chi Collection, etc. Among them, Shu Wei's Biography was praised by predecessors as Zeng Wen's first, and it was compared with Shuowen.
3. Wang Anshi
Wang Anshi, a native of Linchuan, Jiangxi, is 22 years old and a scholar. Zongshen actively promoted new laws such as young crops, water conservancy, equal damage and armor protection. However, the employment was inhuman. After the failure of the new law and the reform, Bu lived in Jinling and made a living by poetry and wine, calling himself an old man in the Mid-Levels.
Author of Linchuan Collection. Fu Jie's essays are full of utilitarianism of legalists, showing his political ideas of saving the country and saving the world everywhere. Therefore, his literary theory can be regarded as a politician's literary theory together with Sima Guang, but the former is closer to a Taoist school, while the latter is a pure ancient prose writer, which is more practical because it is literary.
4. Su Xun
Su Xun, whose real name is Mingyun, is from Meishan, Sichuan. He studied literature behind closed doors for many years. During the reign of Emperor Jiayou, he traveled to the capital with Zi Shi and Zhe, and was praised as Ouyang Xiu, hence the name. He used to be a small official, such as a school bookkeeper and a writer.
Su Xun's works are influenced by national policies, historical records, Zhuangzi and Han Fei. Although he was recognized by European public officials, his system was different and his brushwork was better than his second son's. Therefore, Xie Fangde said that he was "a man with statutes, strength, spirit, flame, rigor and elegance".
5. Soviet experiment
Su Shi, the word Zi Zhan, was named Dongpo. His main activities were in three periods: Renzong, Zongshen and Zhezong. He is brilliant, elegant and fresh, with more than 4,000 poems handed down from ancient times and more than 300 poems.
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