Characteristics of pre-Qin literature

Originality, comprehensiveness, practicality and randomness

Pre-Qin refers to the history before Qin unified the world in 22 1 BC, including three social forms: primitive society, slave society and early feudal society in China. The origin of literature must be traced back to prehistory, that is, the stage of human history before written history. Literature at that time was mainly oral literature. The pre-Qin literature is the earliest stage of the development of ancient literature in China, which includes the literature of various historical periods in the pre-Qin period, and its main body is the mature written literature of the Zhou Dynasty, especially the literature of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. This era is from the unification of the world enfeoffment system to the division of different policies of governors, and then to the unification of centralization.

Most of the ideological and artistic features of literary works also reflect the basic characteristics of China's era of seeking unity through division. During this period, many excellent works were produced, including ancient myths and ancient ballads, The Book of Songs, which marked the glorious starting point of China literature, historical prose as the source of later historical biographical literature, novels and dramas, hundred schools of thought's essays reflecting a hundred schools of thought contending during the Warring States Period, fables in the pre-Qin period, and the romantic masterpiece Chu Ci, the originator of China's fable literature, and so on. Many-hued's colorful pre-Qin literature laid a solid foundation for China's literary development in 2000.