Tang poetry, Song ci, Yuan Qu and novels of Ming and Qing Dynasties are four dazzling pearls in China ancient literature. Their preciousness, their beauty and the feelings of ancient literati they entrusted still affect generation after generation today. Among them, the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty and even the Qing Dynasty are all relatively rich dynasties, and the rulers also attach importance to literati, so they can understand them if they have literary achievements. However, in the Yuan Dynasty, the rulers suppressed the literati and valued martial arts over literature. Why do they also have literary achievements?

The first is the accumulation of history. Yuan took over the Song Dynasty. Although the Song Dynasty was not strong in force, it attached great importance to scholars, which also created the social atmosphere of reading. The Yuan Dynasty took over not only the mountains and rivers of the Song Dynasty, but also this group of literati. However, the Yuan Dynasty despised the literati, and the elegant Song Ci can no longer attract the attention of the rulers. If their works want to be valuable, they must conform to the aesthetics of ordinary people, so that a large number of literati left over from the Song Dynasty wrote and Yuan Qu flourished.

There are more people who create, and the number has increased. But what really achieved a high degree of success was a few classics among these numerous works. For example, Yuan, whom we are familiar with now, and other works are produced because of the background of the times. During the Yuan Dynasty, the life of the Han people was gloomy and politically corrupt, and the creation of Yuanqu was based on these lives. Some people say that a good work is often a pure tear, which shows the appeal of tragedy. It happened that the Yuan Dynasty was such a gloomy era.

The appearance and prosperity of Yuan Qu embodies the characteristics of Yuan Dynasty. In fact, apart from Yuan Qu, Tang Poetry and Song Poetry also have this function. The prosperity of a cultural phenomenon is bound to be influenced by the factors of the times, just as our current novels are all adapted from TV dramas. Many years later, history books may also analyze our current background for this phenomenon.