1. The literature from ancient China to the unification of China by Qin Shihuang (221 BC) is called pre-Qin literature. 2. Myths originated before the invention of writing. Myths are full of rich imagination and are the source of Chinese romantic literature. 3. The most widely circulated myths in China are "Nuwa patching up the sky", "Houyi shooting the sun", "Jingwei filling up the sea", "Chang'e flying to the moon", etc. 4. "Shangshu" is the earliest collection of historical documents in China. It is said that it was compiled and selected by Confucius. 5. The Book of Songs is China's earliest collection of poetry, which collects 305 pieces of music from various local ethnic groups and temples from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period. 6. "Songs of Chu" was compiled by Liu Xiang of the Western Han Dynasty and contains poems written by Qu Yuan and Song Yu. Because it has the local accent of Chu, it is called "Songs of Chu" and has a profound influence on the literary creation of future generations. 7. Qu Yuan is a great patriotic poet in China. "Li Sao" is Qu Yuan's representative work and the only long lyric prose. 8. "The road is long and far away, I will search up and down" is a famous sentence in Qu Yuan's "Li Sao". 9. Pre-Qin prose refers to prose before the Qin Dynasty, which is divided into two categories: historical prose and scholarly prose. "Zuo Zhuan" and "Warring States Policy" are representatives of pre-Qin historical prose. "The Analects", "Mencius", "Mozi" and "Zhuangzi" are representatives of the prose of pre-Qin scholars. 10. "Zuo Zhuan" is China's first narrative history work. It has high achievements in history, literature and language. 11. The Analects of Confucius is a collection of quotation-style prose that records the words and deeds of Confucius and his students. It was written by Confucius' students. This Confucian classic had a huge impact on Chinese culture. 12. “Isn’t it a pleasure to have friends come from afar?” (It’s worth being happy to have friends come from afar), “Don’t do to others what you don’t want others to do to you” (You shouldn’t let others do what you don’t want to do) Do), this is a famous saying in Confucius' "The Analects". 13. Han Fu is a new literary form that emerged in the Han Dynasty. It is a kind of poetic prose. 14. Jia Yi was an outstanding politician and writer in the early Western Han Dynasty. The most famous of his prose is the political essay "On the Passage of Qin". 15. Sima Xiangru was an outstanding writer of poetry in the Western Han Dynasty. "Zixu Fu" and "Shanglin Fu" are his representative works. 16. "Historical Records" is a history book written by Sima Qian, a famous historian in the Western Han Dynasty. It is also a model of biographical literature. 17. Yuefu folk songs of the Han Dynasty occupy an important position in the history of the development of Chinese poetry. Yuefu originally referred to the music organization established during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Later, people called the poems collected, compiled and preserved by the Yuefu organization called Yuefu poetry. 18. "Peacock Flies Southeast" is an outstanding long narrative poem in ancient China. It narrates the love tragedy of a young man and woman. It is the peak of the development of Han Dynasty Yuefu narrative poetry. 19. "Nineteen Ancient Poems" is a group of anonymous short poems written in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. It is a development of Yuefu folk songs and marks the mature stage of the five-character poetry technique. 20. During the Jian'an period at the end of the Han Dynasty, a group of literati poems inherited the realist spirit of Han Yuefu folk songs and had a unique style of "generosity and sadness", which was called the "Jian'an style". 21. The representative writers of Jian'an literature are Cao Cao, Cao Pi, and Cao Zhi, collectively known as the "Three Caos".