1, ancient times: myths and legends.

2. Pre-Qin period: Prose (historical prose, various schools of thought prose).

3. Han Dynasty: Ci Fu, Yuefu folk songs and historical prose.

4. Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties: poetry, etc.

5. Tang Dynasty: Poetry.

6. Song Dynasty: Ci.

7. Yuan Dynasty: Qu.

8. Ming and Qing dynasties: novels.

The history of ancient Chinese literature is the proudest treasure of Chinese civilization. China's feudal dynasty for thousands of years promoted the prosperity and development of China's traditional literature. The prosperity and development of Tang poetry, Song Ci and Yuan Qu, together with other schools such as Han Yuefu and Song Fu, formed a long and splendid history of China's ancient literature.

However, the changes brought about by the Opium War reduced China to a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, and western culture began to pour in, bringing countless new inspirations. From then on, China literature began to develop in the direction of saving the country and the people and improving the society, forming a literature with modern characteristics.

Extended data

In the history of China literature, there are many poets and poets, who are divided into different schools because of their similar styles, the same times, or their fellow villagers' friends, or their fathers and sons' apprentices. These schools, back and forth, are big and small, and their status is high and low. Knowing and being familiar with them is of great benefit to poetry appreciation.

1, Qusong

Qu Song refers to Chu poets Qu Yuan and Song Yu in the Warring States Period. They are the founders and representative writers of Sao Style. Qu Yuan was the first great poet in the history of China literature. Representative works include Li Sao and so on. Song Yu wrote Nine Arguments and Feng Fu. Their poems have many similarities in artistic form, such as using Chu dialect and relying on Chu rhyme, and most of them are bold and colorful.

In Wen Xin Diao Long, Liu Xie spoke highly: "You can't catch up with Song, you can't catch up with Song." However, although Qu Song said that there are similarities, the size of his achievements cannot be compared.

2. Four masters of Han Fu

The four masters of Han Fu refer to Sima Xiangru, Yang Xiong, Ban Gu and Zhang Heng. These four people have many representative masterpieces handed down from generation to generation, which have far-reaching influence in the literary world at that time and later. They are the highest achievers of Han Fu, marking the maturity of the content and style of Han Fu.

3. Three Caos

Three Cao refers to Cao Cao and his sons Cao Pi and Cao Zhi in the Han and Wei Dynasties. Because of their political status and literary achievements, their father and son had a great influence in the literary world at that time, and they were representatives of Jian 'an literature, so later generations collectively called them "Three Caos".

4. Seven sons of Jian 'an

The Seven Scholars of Jian 'an were the collective names of seven writers in the Jian 'an period of Han Dynasty (196-220), including Kong Rong, Chen Lin, RoyceWong, Xu Gan, Ruan Yu, Angelababy and Serina Liu. These seven people generally represent outstanding writers except Cao Zhi and his son (namely, Cao Cao, Cao Pi and Cao Zhi) during the Jian 'an period, so the theory of "seven sons" has been widely recognized by later generations.

Baidu Encyclopedia-History of Ancient Chinese Literature