Characteristics of Ancient Chinese Prose

1. The Book of Shang. The first collection of prose in history, since the Han Dynasty, "Shangshu" has been regarded as the political and philosophical classics of Chinese feudal society, both the emperor's textbook, but also the children of the aristocracy and the scholars must comply with the "Great Scriptures and Great Laws", which is very influential in history. 2. The Analects of Confucius. Guoyu" is China's earliest country-specific history book, where twenty-one volumes (articles), divided into the Zhou, Lu, Qi, Jin, Zheng, Chu, Wu, Yue eight countries to record events. Record time, from the middle of the Western Zhou Dynasty, down to the turn of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States, before and after about five hundred years. 3. The Analects. The Analects of Confucius is a classic work of Confucianism, a collection of essays in the form of quotations. As early as in the late Spring and Autumn period, Confucius set up an altar lecturing period, its main content has been created. 4. The Book of Han. The Book of Han" created the "generation" of the intergenerational history style. The Book of Han" includes "the Chronicle" twelve, "table" eight, "Zhi ten", "biography" seventy, **** one hundred, later divided into one hundred and twenty volumes. It began in the first year of Han Gaozu Liu Bang, finally Wang Mang Di Huang four years. 5, "warring states policy". The Strategies of the Warring States is a country-specific historical work, also known as the State Strategies. Records of the Western Zhou, Eastern Zhou and Qin, Qi, Chu, Zhao, Wei, Han, Yan, Song, Wei, Zhongshan countries, the chronology of events in the early years of the Warring States period, ending in the destruction of the Qin six countries, about 240 years of history.