What is the forerunner of political essays and ci fu in Han Dynasty?

Li Si's articles in the Qin Dynasty were the forerunner of political essays and ci fu in the Han Dynasty.

The political essays in the early Han Dynasty developed, and Jia Yi's and Chao Cuo's essays had obvious influence on the prose creation after the Tang and Song Dynasties. From Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to the end of the Western Han Dynasty, the main achievement of prose was Sima Qian's historical prose Historical Records. In terms of political essays, Huan Kuan's On Salt and Iron and Liu Xiang's recitation have inherited the tradition of political essays in the early Han Dynasty.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was the historical biography literature Han Shu by Ban Gu, and the political essays included Wang Fu's On Latent Husband, Cui Yes's On Politics, Zhong Changtong's Changyan, Wang Chong's On Balance and so on.

Development of Ci and Fu in the Han Dynasty:

Jia Yi was an important writer of Ci and Fu in the early days, and his representative works were Ode to Qu Yuan and Ode to Pengniao. Both Fu have the word Xi, and the trace of the transformation from Chu Ci to Ci Fu is very obvious and lyrical, so it is called "Sao Style Fu". By the time of Emperor Jingdi and Emperor Wudi, Da Fu appeared, and Mei Cheng's Qi Fa was the symbol of the formation of Da Fu in Han Dynasty.

The structural feature of Da Fu is the question and answer between the subject and the object, while restraining the object and extending the subject. At the end of the article, there is a slight irony. The actual effect is "telling a hundred ironies". The representative writer of Da Fu is Sima Xiangru, and his masterpieces are Zi Xu and Shang Lin. Dafu has a magnificent momentum, a flamboyant language and a magnificent spirit, which shows the vigorous momentum of the Han Dynasty.