In drama, as far back as the 13th century, the glory of Yuan Zaju appeared. Guan Hanqing, one of its representatives, wrote 7 zaju in his life. Doue Yuan, a light-hearted, lively and humorous comedy Save the Wind and Dust, Lu Zhailang, a case-solving drama that praises justice and castigates evil, a historical drama that turns the tide of the times, and other plays with diverse styles and colorful colors, not only show the richness, maturity and heavy feeling of Chinese drama, but also put Tang poetry.
The unique forms of expression and artistic charm of Tang poetry and Song poetry have brought the potential of language into full play. It is catchy, forceful, varied and orderly, and the great man of the times, Mao Zedong, not only inherited its excellent tradition, but also pushed this art to a new peak.
In terms of novels, it was more than a thousand years ago in the Song Dynasty that there appeared a "Song Hua Ben" that "marked the literary style of citizens". At the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, there were two great masterpieces of novels, namely, The Water Margin by Shi Naian and The Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong. These two great novels, with broad content, great momentum and over 1 characters, enjoy a world reputation.
China's modern literature, which was born, developed and gradually matured in the revolutionary storm (from the new literature in the May 4th period to the socialist literature since the founding of New China), is advancing in the forefront of the world's progressive literature today with its new posture of being more advanced, more reasonable and better. The True Story of Ah Q, Midnight, Home, Spring, Autumn, Storm, The Sun Shines on the Sanggan River, The Story of the Storm, Defending Yan 'an, Red Flag Spectrum, Hongyan, Oriental, Li Zicheng and Yellow River East. Dramas such as Thunderstorm, Sunrise, Teahouse, Cai Wenji, Wu Zetian and Princess Wencheng; The poems of Guo Moruo, Ai Qing, He Jingzhi, Guo Xiaochuan, Li Ji and other poets, with the unity of revolutionary political content and perfect artistic form, have stepped into the palace of world literature, weaving a more dazzling wreath for the brilliant China literature.
Looking at the panorama of China literature for more than 3, years, we can see that its development has the following five characteristics:
First, in the long course of the development of China literature, the tasks and functions of literature have always been valued. Confucius in BC (551 BC /FONT> 479) First of all, it is proposed that poetry (literature) "can be promoted, observed, grouped and resented. "Your father is far away from you, and he knows a lot about the names of birds, animals and plants." Cao Pi, the Wei Emperor of the Three Kingdoms, attached great importance to the writing of articles, believing that articles could be "classics" and put forward: "It is an immortal event to cover the great cause of classics. "Life ends sometimes, and glory ends with the body. Both of them will come to an end, not like endless articles." Du Fu, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, made a more straightforward explanation of the purpose of writing poetry: "To the monarch Yao Shun, and then to make the customs pure." In this regard, Bai Juyi said even more clearly: "Articles are written in time, and songs and poems are written for things." Ancient poets, writers and literary critics' expositions on the tasks and functions of literature had a great influence on later creative practice and literary development. Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping, on the basis of critically absorbing the reasonable elements of the propositions about the functions of literature in previous dynasties, put forward a clear and more popular loud slogan: literature and art serve the workers, peasants and soldiers; Literature and art serve the people and socialism. Under the guidance of this thought, the literature in the Liberated Areas has made indelible achievements, and the literature in New China, especially in the new period, has achieved unprecedented development and prosperity.
2. Chinese literature has always been an open literature with the courage to forge ahead, constantly innovating or bringing forth new ideas in form and genre. For example, the development of poetry is from four-character poems to five-character poems and seven-character poems, and from ancient poems to modern poems, metrical poems and free poems. The development of prose is from pre-Qin prose to Han Fu, parallel prose and ancient prose in the "ancient prose movement". In modern times, the types and forms of prose are really varied and colorful. In genre, from Tang poetry, Song ci and Yuan Qu to novels and short stories in Ming and Qing Dynasties. In a word, the development of literature for thousands of years shows that Chinese literature is always in constant movement and constantly innovating and innovating in artistic forms and genres.
It should be pointed out that the Chinese nation is a nation with a high degree of rationalization, and it can comprehensively, dialectically and maturely treat the innovation and revolution in literary form and genre. After the emergence of a new art form and genre, it does not negate the previous art form and genre, but allows various art forms and genres to compete freely. For example, after seven-character poems and seven-character quatrains occupied the main position in the field of poetry, five-character poems and four-character poems did not die out, and even today, they still exist. For another example, today we advocate new poetry, but the creation of old-style poetry is still very prosperous, and the fly with me and honor of poetry and ci are also very thought-provoking. In the Song Dynasty, Ci occupied a major position in the field of poetry, but the poems in the Song Dynasty were also very distinctive. Even today, they are brothers or sisters who go hand in hand.