Famous essays in pre-Qin period.

The documentary nature of pre-Qin philosophers' prose includes The Analects of Confucius and Mozi.

The Analects of Confucius is one of the classic works of Confucian school, which was compiled by Confucius' disciples and their descendants. It mainly records the words and deeds of Confucius and his disciples, and embodies Confucius' political opinions, ethical thoughts, moral concepts and educational principles. It is also called "Four Books and Five Classics" with Daxue, The Doctrine of the Mean, Mencius, The Book of Songs, Shangshu, Book of Rites, Yijing and Chunqiu. There are twenty popular Analects of Confucius.

Mozi is a philosophical work in the Warring States period, which consists of Mozi's own works and his disciples' accounts of Mozi's remarks.

This book advocates universal love, non-aggression, Shang Xian, Shang Tong, ambition, ghosts and ghosts, non-fate, non-happiness, and frugality in burial, involving philosophy, logic, military science, engineering, mechanics, geometry and optics. Most of the scientific and technological achievements in the pre-Qin period depended on Mozi. The existing book Mozi was lost in the Song Dynasty. By the time of compiling Sikuquanshu in Qing Dynasty, there were only 53 articles left.

The article is a gradual analogical reasoning from small to large, such as non-attack. The language is plain and unpretentious, and the sentences are colloquial.