Historiography and literary achievements from the Zhou Dynasty to the Eastern Han Dynasty

Eastern jin. In terms of literature, although the Eastern Jin Dynasty was not a period of great political power in Chinese history, it was an era of great prosperity in literature and art. The capital, Jiankang, became a cultural center, attracting many Southeast Asian and South Asian Buddhists.

Monks and merchants came. The Buddhist model cast in 338 to imitate Pop Bin is the earliest known gilded bronze Buddha statue. Wang Xizhi, the most influential calligrapher in Chinese history.

Active in this period. The pottery form of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was more innovative than that of the Western Jin Dynasty. Nanjing Fugui Mountain has excavated the tomb of this period, according to historical records, this is the location of the Eastern Jin Dynasty royal tomb.

The Eastern Jin Dynasty had certain achievements in literature, and all kinds of poems and songs flourished in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Famous writers include Xie Lingyun, Tao Yuanming, Wang Xizhi and others. There are also outstanding achievements in painting and calligraphy, such as Gu Kaizhi's paintings and Wang Xizhi's calligraphy, all of which have high artistic value.

One of the famous Chinese folk legends, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai.

The background of the story also takes place in Huiji.

<> aspect of painting, Gu Kaizhi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty is good at painting the landscapes of ladies, in order to convey the gods, and the history is called"Painting Saint"。His painting of the "Female Historian".

Emphasize the combination of the figure's envy in the eyes and gestures. The fluttering of the garments and the bulging of the clothes on the body seem to be"gas"Wrapping around the whole body, it has reached the highest evaluation of Chinese painting, "vivid". It is said to be the "Luo Shen Fu Tu" painted by Gu Kaizhi

The same level is also available. As for the landscape painting, it is still in the pattern stage, and it has not yet been vivid, and it has improved until the Southern Dynasties.

In terms of calligraphy, Wang Xizhi's "Seventeen Posts" of the Eastern Jin Dynasty

Wang Xianzhi's "Duck Head Pill Post". The line of calligraphy between the regular grass, the writing is simple and smooth, and the famous ones are Wang Xizhi's "Funeral Post" and "Orchid Pavilion Preface".

In terms of ideology, because the rulers of the Eastern Jin Dynasty were content in the south of the Yangtze River and did not intend to restore the Central Plains, the gate lord clan devoted themselves to the manor management in the south. The migration of the northern ethnic groups and a large number of Han people to the south of the Yangtze River has given more opportunities for exchanges between the celebrities and scholars of the Jiangnan and the people of the Central Plains who crossed the river, and promoted the development of society and culture. Since the Cao Wei Dynasty, the development of Chinese literature has been in a period of great strides, among which the literati of the Eastern Jin Dynasty are the most famous.

In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there were landscape poets Xie Lingyun and pastoral poet Tao Yuanming, who reformed the old style poems and created the prerequisites for the future prosperity of Sui and Tang poetry.

The most outstanding achievements of the Eastern Jin Dynasty in literature are the outstanding achievements of the famous calligraphers Wang Xizhi, Tao Yuanming, Xie Lingyun and Gu Kaizhi in calligraphy and painting Changxin.

The Eastern Jin Dynasty has certain achievements in literature, and all kinds of poems and songs in Jianzhen are flourishing in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Famous literary scholars, including Xie Lingyun, Tao Yuanming, Wang Xizhi and others. There are also outstanding achievements in painting and calligraphy, such as Gu Kaizhi's paintings and Wang Xizhi's calligraphy and thoughts, all of which have high artistic value.

The story of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, one of the famous four great Chinese folk legends, also takes place in Huiji.

Mainly calligraphy and poetry.

In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there was calligraphy of Wang Xizhi and Wang Xianzhi's father and son, and the landscape idyllic poems of Tao Yuanming and Xie Lingyun.

Well, historically, the Eastern Jin Dynasty was very successful in literature, and the famous Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest were born, these seven people are very powerful, and they are all famous writers.

During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, a large number of outstanding figures appeared, such as Tao Yuanming, Xie Lingyun, Wang Xizhi and so on.

Historiography 1, Sima Qian, a famous historian of the Western Han Dynasty, wrote the immortal historiography masterpiece "Historical Records", which is the first general history of China.

2. The Eastern Han Dynasty historian Ban Gu wrote the Book of Han, which is the first history of the Chinese dynasty. It describes the history of the Western Han Dynasty. Ban Gu made a slight change to the genre of the "Historical Records", changed the "book" to the chronicle, and canceled the family.

Literary Han Fu. Fu is a literary genre that prevailed in the Han and Han dynasties, characterized by the laying out of rhetoric and gorgeous literary style. The representative figure is Sima Xiangru.

Sima Qian's "Historical Records" is China's first general history in the form of a biography.

Bangu's Book of Han is the first step in chronicling the history of the dynasty.

In terms of historiography, the literary achievements of the Han Dynasty are mainly reflected in Sima Qian's "Records of the Historians", which is the first general history of China in the form of biographies and the first of the 24 histories, which provides a standard for the compilation of official histories for the next 2,000 years. The book is divided into 12 books, 10 tables, 8 books, 30 families, and 70 biographies, with a total of 130 chapters and 526,500 words.

The Book of Han compiled by Ban Gu is also a famous literary achievement of the Han Dynasty, which is divided into 12 chronicles, 8 tables, 10 chronicles, and 70 biographies. The slag example of the whole book is modeled on the "Historical Records", but the book is changed to a discipline, the family is abolished and passed on, and the criminal law, the five elements, geography, astronomy, art and literature are also created, and the "Hundred Officials and Ministers Table" are also created. The Book of Han is the first complete history of the Han Dynasty in Chinese history.

It has also become a model for the Bichong Dynasty to write the history of this dynasty in later dynasties. Other historical books of the Han Dynasty include Dongguan Hanshu, Han Ji and Wu Yue Chunqiu. Many Western scholars believe that the historiographical standards pioneered by Han writers were ahead of the world until the 18th century.

Han Fu, prose, poetry. From a cultural point of view, the literature of the Han Dynasty has a strong retro style, which is related to the academic atmosphere of the entire Han Dynasty with the Five Classics as the ancestor, the sages as the criterion, and the academic atmosphere of emphasizing the inheritance of teachers and the rule of chapters and sentences. This has also caused some literary historians in later generations to criticize the two-way model of Han Dynasty literature, that is, the concept of indoctrination literature under the domination of Confucian orthodoxy is retro and conservative, and the concept of natural literature under the domination of Taoist heretical thought is innovative and enterprising.

Basic characteristics of Han Dynasty literature:

1.The Han Dynasty re-emerged as a group of writers;

2.The literature of the Han Dynasty showed a trend of diversification, and both folk and literati creations showed a flourishing scene.

3.There was a two-way interaction between Han literature and classics, and the two penetrated each other;

4.The Han Dynasty was a time of major changes in literary genres, and many important literary styles were born during this period.