Including various schools of thought prose and historical prose. Hundred schools of thought's essays are mainly expositions, such as The Analects of Confucius, Mencius and Zhuangzi. Historical prose mainly focuses on historical themes, and all articles and books describing historical events and historical figures are historical prose, such as Zuo Zhuan.
2. Han dynasty
Sima Qian's Historical Records in the Western Han Dynasty pushed biographical prose to an unprecedented peak. After the Eastern Han Dynasty, individual prose forms such as books, notes, inscriptions, essays and prefaces began to appear. Sima Xiangru, Yang Xiong, Ban Gu and Zhang Heng were praised as the four masters of Han Fu by later generations.
3. Tang and Song Dynasties
Under the impetus of the ancient prose movement, prose writing became more and more complicated, and literary prose appeared, resulting in many excellent works such as landscape travel notes, fables, biographies and essays, and the famous "Eight Masters of Tang and Song Dynasties" also emerged at this time.
4. Ming dynasty
At first, the "Seven Sons" mainly imitated ancient times. Later, in the Tang and Song Dynasties, it was advocated that works "all flowed out from the chest", and Gui Youguang was famous.
Qing dynasty prose: represented by Tongcheng school, Qing dynasty prose pays attention to the embodiment of "righteousness" Yao Nai, a representative writer of Tongcheng School, summed up the style of ancient Chinese prose and classified it into 13 categories, including argumentative essays, prefaces and postscripts, recitation, calligraphy, preface, imperial edict, biography, epitaph, miscellaneous words, ode, ci fu and mourning.
5. Modern Times
Refers to a literary style on an equal footing with poetry, novels, plays, etc. It is characterized by expressing the author's views and feelings and revealing its social significance through the description of some fragments or life events in real life.
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Books on the history of prose development;
1 History of Ancient Prose in China
The History of Ancient Prose in China is a book published by Higher Education Press in 2004 by Ada.
The History of Ancient Prose in China combs the history of the origin, germination, formation, development, evolution and theoretical construction of China's ancient prose, examines and expounds the vertical diachronic development law and horizontal * * * characteristics from the perspective of ontology, and also makes a concise and profound summary of the experience and lessons of prose theory and traditional prose creation.
2. A brief history of China's ancient prose.
A Brief History of Ancient Prose in China is an educational work published by Southwest Normal University Press by Mr. Xu Hongquan.
It mainly teaches the history of the occurrence, development and evolution of China's ancient prose, comments on important prose writers and works in different periods, and discusses the characteristics of prose planning in different periods and the laws of the development and evolution of ancient prose.
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