Pre-Qin prose: represented by Chunqiu and Guoyu.
Pre-Qin poetry: represented by The Book of Songs and Qu Yuan's Songs of the South.
Hundred schools of thought's Prose: The Analects of Confucius, Laozi and Mozi.
2. Qin and Han Dynasties
Han Fu: Jia Yi's Fu of Hanging Qu Yuan, Ma Xiangru's Fu of Zixu, etc.
Hanshu: Sima Qian's Historical Records
3. Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties
Literary theory: Lu Ji's Wen Fu, Liu Xie's Wen Xin Diao Long and Zhong Rong's Shi Pin.
Parallel Prose: Preface to Yu Xin's Mourning for the Past in Jiangnan
4. Tang and Five Dynasties
Tang Poetry: A large number of poets, led by Li Bai and Du Fu, pushed the poems and songs of the Tang Dynasty to the peak of China literature.
Prose: Han Yu's Mourning, Shi Shuo, Xue Shi and Liu Zongyuan's Eight Notes on Yongzhou are the representatives.
Parallel Prose: Wang Bo's Preface to Wang Tengting
5. Song Dynasty
Song Ci: It is called the double gem of China literature together with Tang Poetry. Liu Yong's Yulin Order, Su Shi's Shuidiao Song Tou.
Parallel Prose: Yu Wang's Leaked Courtyard, Fan Zhongyan's Yueyang Tower, and Ouyang Xiu's Preface to Drunk Pavilion.
Prose: Wang Anshi's Travel Notes of Baochan and Su Shi's Fu on the Red Wall.
6. Yuan, Ming and Qing
Yuanqu: Yuan Haowen's New Lotus in the Storm
Zaju: Ghost Story, Romance of the West Chamber, Wall and Moon Pavilion, which are called the "Four Great Plays of Love", are represented by Guan Hanqing, Bai Pu, Zheng Guangzu and Ma Zhiyuan.
Opera: Wang Shifu's The West Chamber and Tang Xianzu's The Peony Pavilion.
Popular literature in Ming Dynasty: San Yan Er Pai by Feng Menglong, Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Wu Cheng'en, The Journey to the West and Luo Guanzhong, and Jin Ping Mei by Xiao Xiaosheng.
Qing Opera: Hong Sheng's Palace of Eternal Life and Kong's Peach Blossom Fan.
Novels in Qing Dynasty are represented by Cao Xueqin's Dream of Red Mansions and Wu's Scholars.
7. Modern Times
Prose: Liang Qichao on young chinese.
Poetry: represented by Nanshe poets.
Denunciation novels: Li's The Appearance of Officialdom, Wu Woyao's Wonders Seen in Twenty Years, Nie Hai Hua, and Liu E's Travel Notes of the Old Disabled.
8. Modern and contemporary
Mainly prose and novels. contention of a hundred schools of thought