On Literary Works in Late Qing Dynasty

Literature in Qing Dynasty is the peak of the development of feudal literature and a brilliant summary of ancient literature. There are all kinds of styles, which is really a big landscape. Many styles go hand in hand and prosper in an all-round way. Traditional styles such as poetry, ci and prose were revived in Qing Dynasty. Novel, traditional opera, national singing and other emerging literary styles.

Qing Dynasty was the last feudal dynasty in China and the last important stage in the history of ancient literature. Poetry, ci, prose, novels and operas have all made important achievements.

Literati writers in Qing Dynasty also created a large number of great and excellent novels, among which A Dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin, Scholars by Wu and Three Heroes and Five Righteousness by Shi Yukun are outstanding representatives. It is generally believed that the development of ancient literature in China ended before the Opium War (1840). After the Opium War, the stage of modern literature began.

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In the early Qing Dynasty, scholars were dissatisfied with the rulers' national oppression and autocratic rule, and there were widespread national thoughts against the Qing court, and some people also had progressive democratic thoughts. Poets and poets in this period took adherents of the Ming Dynasty who held this idea as the main body.

Huang Zongxi, Gu and Wang Fuzhi are the most outstanding thinkers and scholars in this period. Their prose, with profound skill, shows strong national thoughts and different degrees of democratic thoughts, surpassing the achievements of late Ming prose and showing a brand-new look; Their poems are also of high quality.

Gui Zhuang, Du□, Wu Jiaji, Yan, Qian Chengzhi, Qu Dajun, Chen Gongyin, etc. The important theme of adherents' poems is to reflect ethnic contradictions and express patriotic thoughts; Yan, Qian Chengzhi and Wu Jiaji reflected the social and class contradictions at that time. In style, they also have their own characteristics.