Zuo Zhuan is the most literary historical prose in the pre-Qin period: the first is the literary tailoring and story plot of historical events. The strong literary narrative of Zuo Zhuan is mainly manifested in two aspects, one is the vivid literary tailoring, and the other is the story and plot of historical events, such as Duan Yanyu by Zheng Boke. Second, it vividly depicts the character's personality.
From the literary point of view, The Warring States Policy has its own unique features:
First, the flamboyant style. Second, grasp each other's psychology, be persuasive and convince others by reasoning. Third, draw characters and make good use of fables.
The most literary works should be Mencius and Zhuangzi.
Because Monk is not as deep and solemn as Confucius, but he is conceited, sharp-edged, argumentative and eloquent, and always fights with others in words. Embodied in the article, he not only explained the truth logically, but also had a strong emotional color. His writing is frank, he likes to laugh and curse, and he never hesitates. The style of writing is popular and fluent, without blunt language, and I like to use overlapping parallel prose, which forms a remarkable feature of the prose of Mencius, that is, the momentum is like a rainbow, such as the waves of the Yangtze River, majestic, aggressive and unimpeded.
The literariness of Mencius is also manifested in the good use of images to help reason. Sometimes it is a short metaphor, such as: "Alas! Men have chickens and dogs to let go, knowing what they want and not knowing what they want. The way of learning