In 1898, Wang Yirong discovered the oracle bone inscription, which has a total of more than 4,500 characters, and more than 1,700 characters can be recognized. From 2700 to 3700 years ago, the gluttonous pattern Ding, Penghui Houmu Wuding, Dayu Ding, Zhong Ding, etc. gradually appeared in the memorization symbols, and the inscription of Mao Gongding reached 497 words.
From "Zhou Yi" and "Book of Songs" to Laozi's "Tao Te Ching", Confucius's "Analects", Zhuangzi's "Leisurely Travel", and then to Mencius's "Liang Hui Wang", Han Feizi's "Five Worms", Mozi's "Non-Attack", and Xunzi's "Persuasion", literature and art shine. If the above is the cultural development of the Yellow River, then the Yangtze River culture represented by Qu Yuan's "Chu Ci" has brought the Chu people in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River into the palace of literature and art.
To the Han Dynasty, Jia Yi, Mei Cheng, Sima Xiangru and so on will be the resignation to the peak, "Hanging Qu Yuan Fu", "Treatise on the Qin Dynasty" and "Zixu Fu" and "Shanglin Fu" are all familiar to us of the famous works, Sima Qian's "Historical Records", can be called the ancient prose "first pen", Chinese context "commanding heights", the whole book includes 12 books, 30 families, 70 biographies, 10 tables (chronology of events), eight books, a total of 130 articles, 526,500 words.
The works of Cao father and son of the Wei and Jin dynasties, Wei and Jin celebrities, Tao Yuanming, Cai Yan, Liu Xian, Li Daoyuan, etc., are all groundbreaking and glorious historical strategies. The poets of the Tang Dynasty were like a galaxy, and among the eight families of the Tang and Song dynasties, Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan of the Tang Dynasty set off the ancient culture movement, which promoted the reform of the ills of the pun language. The Song Dynasty is another miracle in the history of Chinese culture, with the gathering of talents, the emergence of masters, and the collection of excellent works, such as Li Yu, Su Shi, Li Qingzhao, Xin Qiji, Lu You, Ouyang Xiu, Liu Yong, Yan Shu, Wang Anshi, Wen Tianxiang and other poems and articles.
Finally, it is Yuanqu and Ming and Qing dynasties. Yuan song is about Han Qing, Wang Shifu, Ji Junxiang, Tang Xianzu, Kong Shangren, and his main works include "Dou E's Injustice", "Save the Wind and Dust", "Wangjiang Pavilion" and "The Story of the West Chamber", "Zhao's Orphan", "Peony Pavilion" and "Peach Blossom Fan". The Ming and Qing dynasties are the four well-known masterpieces "Dream of Red Mansions", "Journey to the West", "Water Margin" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".