In short, everything from natural phenomena, political dynamics, working life, social customs, to personal feelings cannot escape the keen eyes of poets and become the subject matter of their writing. In terms of creative methods, there are both realist and romantic schools, and many great works are examples of the combination of these two creative methods, forming the excellent tradition of Chinese classical poetry. Song poetry is another literary genre after Tang poetry. It is basically divided into two categories: the graceful school and the bold school. The representative figure of the graceful school: Li Yu, the later leader of the Southern Tang Dynasty. The poets of the Song Dynasty: Li Qingzhao, Liu Yong, Qin Guan, etc. Representatives of the bold school: Xin Qiji, Su Shi, Yue Fei, Chen Liang, etc.

Song Ci is a dazzling diamond in the crown of ancient Chinese literature. In the Langyuan of ancient literature, it is a fragrant and gorgeous garden. With its colorful and colorful works, she competes with Tang poems for wonder and Yuan opera for beauty. She has always been considered as one of the best in Tang poems, and both represent the triumph of literature of a generation. He drew nourishment from the "Book of Songs", "Chu Ci" and "Poems of the Han, Wei and Six Dynasties", and provided organic ingredients for the later drama novels of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. To this day, she is still cultivating people's sentiments and bringing us high artistic enjoyment.

The Yuan Dynasty was the heyday of Yuan opera. Generally speaking, Zaju and Sanqu are collectively called Yuan opera, which is the main body of literature in the Yuan Dynasty. Developed during the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, it was a collection of music from ethnic minorities and minor tunes from all over the north and south. Because it was popular in the Yuan Dynasty, it was called Yuan Opera.

The Ming and Qing Dynasties were a prosperous period in the history of Chinese novels. Since the Ming Dynasty, the literary form of novels has fully demonstrated its social role and literary value, breaking the monopoly of orthodox poetry and prose, and achieving a status alongside Tang poetry, Song lyrics, and Yuan operas in the history of literature. The Qing Dynasty was a period when Chinese classical novels flourished and declined and transformed into modern novels.

The novels of the Ming Dynasty can be roughly divided into four categories according to their subject matter and ideological content, namely historical novels, novels about gods and demons, novels about world affairs and novels about public cases. Representative works include "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms". "Water Margin", "Journey to the West", "Jin Ping Mei", etc.

The class contradictions, national contradictions and struggles in the ideological and cultural fields in the Qing Dynasty had a profound impact on novel creation. The period from the early Qing Dynasty to the Qianlong period was the heyday of the development of Qing novels. Compared with the previous generation, the quantity and quality, content and form, style and genre have all developed greatly. The novels of the Qing Dynasty were basically the creations of literati. Although there were references from history, legends and other materials, the works were mostly based on real life and fully reflected the author's personal wishes. They were also more sophisticated in structure, narrative and character description. The state of maturity. "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" and "A Dream of Red Mansions" produced during the Qianlong period pushed the creation of classical Chinese novels and vernacular novels to their peak respectively.