The development of prose has roughly experienced the following stages: First, the pre-Qin period. Shangshu is the first collection of essays. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, a hundred schools of thought contended, resulting in hundred schools of thought's essays. Zuo Zhuan and Warring States Policy are the representatives of historical prose in the pre-Qin period. "Style to the Warring States Period and later generations" Zhang Xuecheng "Literature and History. Poetry teaching ". The second is the Han Dynasty. With the further development of prose, "Historical Records" is a "masterpiece of historians, leaving Sao without rhyme", which represents the highest achievement of prose in Han Dynasty. Third, during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, this period was dominated by temperament, forming a parallel style, with the Notes on Shui Jing and the Biography of Luoyang Galand as the highlights. Fourth, the Tang and Song Dynasties. In the mid-Tang Dynasty, Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan led the ancient prose movement, "the decline of eight generations of literature". Ouyang Xiu advocated ancient prose in the Northern Song Dynasty, and Su and his son echoed it, and ancient prose gradually occupied the literary world. Fifth, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. Basically inherited and developed the spirit of the ancient prose movement in Tang and Song Dynasties. In the Ming Dynasty, there appeared the school of restoring ancient ways of the first seven scholars, the school of Tang and Song Dynasties who opposed restoring ancient ways, and the school of public security who advocated spiritual spirit, and there appeared Gui Youguang and other prose masters, among which Tongcheng School in the Qing Dynasty had the greatest influence.