Main Achievements and Basic Characteristics of the Literature of the Two Han Dynasties

The main form, structure and characteristics of the literature of the two Han dynasties

1. Fugue

Fugue is the most representative style of the literature of the Han dynasty, which is between poetry and prose, and rhymes and scatters. It draws on chu qi,, the war over the form of questions and answers between the host and the guest, spreading the unrestrained style, there are absorbing the pre-Qin historical literature narrative hand hair, will be integrated into the poetry. There are traditional four-character poems and emerging five-character and seven-character poems. It has a wide range of stylistic sources and is a comprehensive literary style. Meixian's "Seven Functions" marked the formation of the new style of fugu. The works of Sima Xiangru represented the highest achievement. In the late Western Han Dynasty, Yang Xiong was the main writer of the new style of fugu, and Ban Gu's Two Capitals Fugu and Zhang Heng's Two Capitals Fugu were two masterpieces of the new style of fugu in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Zhang Heng's "Return to the Field Fugue" created the precedent of lyrical fugue. 2. Chu Rhetoric Works

There was no new development of Chu Rhetoric works in the Han Dynasty, and many of the works were copied from "Li Tiao" and "Nine Chapters". During the Han Dynasty, the trend of interpreting Chu Rhetoric prevailed, and the literati were y in love with Qu Yuan. The Chu Rhetoric emphasized on aria and lyricism. Development slowly merged with the new style of fugue, always known as rhetoric, Chu rhetoric is known as a tao style fugue.

3. Two Han narrative prose

The two Han narrative prose in the style of a greater development. The Records of the Grand Historian created a new style of biographical history. The Book of Han inherited its style and perfected it. Wu Yue Chun Qiu (Spring and Autumn Annals of Wu Yue) strengthened the literary character of historical biographies and was the goblet of historical novels. The Eastern Han Dynasty also saw the emergence of inscriptions, a new style of writing driven by the culture of characterization. Madibe's "Record of the Seal of Zen" was the earliest complete travelogue. The Han dynasty political essays inherited the prose of the pre-Qin plurals, there is no major breakthrough in the form.4. Poetry

The four-character poem continued to be used in the Han dynasty, but not in the dominant position, the Han dynasty appeared in the five-column poem. In the Western Han Dynasty, quintuplets were mostly found in ballads and musical poems, and in the Eastern Han Dynasty, quintuplets appeared in large numbers. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, pentameter poetry had matured, with narrative poems such as Southeast Flight of the Peacock and lyric poems such as Nineteen Ancient Poems as a model for pentameter poetry. In the Western Han Dynasty, a large number of heptameter poems had already appeared, and the heptameter poems attached to the Han Fu were usually rhymed, reflecting the characteristics of early heptameter poems.

The main forms, styles, and characteristics of literature in the two Han dynasties

The main forms of literature in the two Han dynasties were prose, fugue, Ch'u-ch'iu style, and lefu poetry.

The prose style is diverse, including historical prose and political prose. It is characterized by a new style of writing, centering on characters to narrate history. The political prose is mainly inherited from the pre-Qin prose model, but it has been developed, and the structure of prose is more rigorous and solid.

The style of fugue is complemented by big fugue, small fugue, and tart fugue. It is characterized as being between poetry and prose, with both rhyming and scattering, and forming a new system by incorporating all kinds of literary styles.

The style of Lefu poetry carried the style of pre-Qin poetry, but had its distinctive features, such as a new style of poetry - pentameter. The works of the Chu Rhetoric style were merely simulations of Qu Yuan's works, with little change in style and features, and thus gradually declined.

The story fugues of the two Han dynasties, which told stories of birds and animals, dramatized historical legends, and reproduced scenes of daily life, truly and vividly reflected the thoughts, feelings, and aesthetic tastes of the secular people, and the way they were produced and disseminated are worthy of our in-depth study. These fugues are pregnant with various literary elements such as operas and novels, and the twists and turns of their storylines, the vividness of their characters, and the personalization and popularization of their language have all formed a unique presence in Han literature, which has had a considerable impact on Chinese literature, especially on the development and evolution of popular literature.