Ancient Chinese Literature

1. The Classic of Mountains and Seas

The Classic of Mountains and Seas is an ancient Chinese book of ancient tales, largely written by the people of Chu or Bashu in the mid-to-late Warring States period to the early-to-mid Han Dynasty. It is also an absurd and strange book.

The author of the book is not known, the ancients believe that the book is "the warring states of curious people to take the" Mu Wang biography ", miscellaneous records" Zhuang "," Lie "," Li Sao "," Book of the Week "," the "Jin multiply" to become a ". Modern scholars also believe that the book is not a moment, the author is not a person.

Shanhaijing book is now 18, the rest of the chapters of the content of the early anonymous. The original *** 22 about 32,650 words. *** Tibetan mountain scripture 5, overseas scripture 4, sea scripture 5, the great wilderness scripture 4. Han Shu - Art and Culture Zhi" for 13, not counting the late Great Desert Scripture and the Sea of Scripture.

Shanhaijing is mainly about geographical knowledge in folklore, including mountains, rivers, dori, ethnic groups, products, medicines, rituals, witch doctors and so on. It preserves a number of popular ancient myths, legends and fables, including Kwa-Fu's chase for the sun, Nuwa's mending of the sky, Jingwei's reclamation of the sea, and Dayu's treatment of the water.

2. The Strategies of the Warring States

The Strategies of the Warring States is a country-specific work of history, also known as the Strategies of the State. It is a record of the Western Zhou, Eastern Zhou and Qin, Qi, Chu, Zhao, Wei, Han, Yan, Song, Wei, Zhongshan countries. The history of the book starts from the beginning of the Warring States period and ends with the destruction of the six states by Qin, with a history of about 240 years.

The "Strategies of the Warring States" is divided into 12 stratagems, 33 volumes, and ****497 articles, mainly describing the political ideas and strategies of lobbyists during the Warring States period, and can also be said to be a manual of practical exercises for lobbyists.

The book also demonstrates the historical characteristics and social style of the Warring States period of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and is an important book for the study of the history of the Warring States. The ideological tendency of the book "Strategies of the Warring States" has been deprecated by scholars through the ages because it is contrary to Confucian orthodoxy.

"Strategies of the Warring States" was once denounced as an "evil doctrine" and a "book of apostasy. "The Strategies of the Warring States" is basically a self-contained book. Its moral and philosophical views are mostly taken from the Taoists, and its socio-political views are close to those of the Legalists, contradicting Confucianism alone, and thus criticized by later scholars."

The author is not a person, the book is not a moment, most of the authors of the articles in the book do not know who they are. Liu Xiang of the Western Han Dynasty, compiled as thirty-three articles, the title of the book was also formulated by Liu Xiang. The title of the book was also drawn up by Liu Xiang. It was missing in the Song Dynasty, and was supplemented by Zeng Gong.

There was a commentary by Gao Liao of the Eastern Han Dynasty, which is now missing. Song Bao Biao changed the order of the original book and made new notes. Wu Shidao made "the warring states policy school note", modern Jin Zhengwei has "the warring states policy supplement", today's Miao Wenyuan has "the warring states policy new school note".

3. The Book of Han

The Book of Han, also known as the Book of the Former Han, is China's first chronological history, one of the Twenty-Four Histories. It was compiled by Ban Gu, a historian of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and lasted for more than twenty years before and after, and was basically completed in the middle of the early years of the Jian Dynasty, and was later interpreted and annotated by Yan Shigu of the Tang Dynasty.

The Book of Han is another important history book of ancient China after the Book of History, and the Book of History, the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, and the Records of the Three Kingdoms are known as the "first four histories". The Book of Han is an account of 230 years of history, from the first year of Han Gaozu of the Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C.) to the fourth year of Wang Mang Di Huang of the new dynasty (23 A.D.)

The Book of Han is an account of 230 years of history.

The Book of Han consists of twelve books in the main chronicle, eight in the table, ten in the Zhi, seventy in the biography, and one hundred in the ****, which was divided into one hundred and twenty volumes by later generations, and the whole book **** eight hundred thousand words.

4. The Peony Pavilion

The Peony Pavilion Returning the Soul (referred to as The Peony Pavilion, also known as The Dream of Returning the Soul or The Dream of the Peony Pavilion) is a legend (play) created by Tang Xianzu, a playwright of the Ming Dynasty, which was published in the forty-fifth year of the Wanli reign of the Ming Dynasty (1617).

The play depicts the story of Du Liniang, the daughter of an official family, who fell in love with Liu Mengmei, a scholar in her dream, and died of her love. She was transformed into a soul to look for her real lover, and the ghosts fell in love with each other, and finally came back to life, and finally tied up with Liu Mengmei forever. The play is written in elegant language.

The play is one of the outstanding works in the history of Chinese opera, and is one of the four major classical dramas in China, together with Cui Yingying to the Moon, The Story of the West Wing, The Touching Sinus E Foe, and The Palace of Eternal Youth.

5, "Liaozhai Zhiyi"

"Liaozhai Zhiyi" (short for "Liaozhai", commonly known as "Ghosts and Foxes") is a collection of short stories in the Chinese language written by Chinese novelist Pu Songling in the Qing Dynasty.

The whole book*** has 491 short stories (Zhang Youhe's Liaozhai Zhiyi will be schooled and annotated will be commented on) (Zhu Qikai's "The Whole Book of New Notes on Liaozhai Zhiyi" is 494).

They either expose the darkness of feudal rule, attack the corruption of the imperial examination system, or rebel against the bondage of feudal rites, with rich and profound ideological contents.

The works depicting the theme of love are the most numerous in the whole book, and they express the strong spirit of anti-feudalism. Some of these works show the author's ideal love through the love between flower demon, fox charm and human.