What position does Zuo Zhuan occupy in the history of China literature?
Zuo Zhuan has provided rich experience for later literary creation. From the aspects of system, capacity and means, it has the embryonic form of a long narrative literature. The artistic achievement of this masterpiece is groundbreaking and significant, so it occupies an important and prominent position in the history of China literature. Just as Homer's epic is to western literature, Zuo Zhuan's influence on later literature is incomparable to other historical works in the same period of pre-Qin.