The stages of China's literary history.

1, ancient literature (pre-Qin-Qing Dynasty).

2. Modern literature (from the Opium War 1840 to the eve of the May 4th Movement 19 19).

Modern literature, that is, literature in the gestation period of China's modernization, embodies the special spiritual pursuit of China's literature to bid farewell to tradition and rebuild modernity.

3. Modern literature (after the May 4th literary revolution).

Contemporary literature is a new literature which was formed under the social and historical changes in China and widely accepted by foreign literature. It not only expresses modern scientific and democratic ideas in modern language. In addition, traditional literature has also made innovations in artistic forms and expression techniques. New literary genres such as drama, new poetry, modern novel, prose, prose poetry and reportage have been established.

There are new creative and modern features in narrative angle, lyrical way, descriptive means and structural composition, which conform to the trend of world literature and become a truly modern literature.

4. Contemporary Literature (China Literature from 1949).

China's contemporary literature refers to the literature that happened in a specific socialist historical context, limited to the scope of "Chinese mainland".

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The main achievements of modern literature:

The outstanding characteristics and achievements of poetry in this period are: taking Nanshe as the center and Liu Yazi, Gao Xu, Ma, Ma, and other Nanshe poets as the representatives, impassioned eulogizing the national democratic revolution. Qiu Jin is the most outstanding poetess in this period. In the prose with the theme of propagating revolutionary thoughts, Zhang Cai used ancient prose in Wei and Jin Dynasties, and Zou Rong, a young writer, used popular ancient prose.

In the novel, there are Ceng Pu's Evil Sea Flower, which exposes darkness and sympathizes with the revolution, and Chen Tianhua's unfinished work, The Lion Roar, which praises the revolution. The famous condemnation novels advocate universal social improvement, and the novel Officialdom Appears and Wu's Strange Situation Seen in Twenty Years also appeared in this period.

In the aspect of rap, there are Wang Xiaonong's improvement of Peking Opera and Jian Huang's improvement of Sichuan Opera, such as Spring Willow Festival and Popular Troupe, Qiu Jin and Chen Tianhua's propaganda of revolution in the form of rap, and a number of revolutionary works such as zaju, legend and random play.

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