Classical Chinese Prose Sorted by dynasty, do you have a favorite

Some landscape travelogues are very good, mostly in the Song Dynasty, and in the Tang and Song dynasties.

Yes, I like all of them.

Classical prose originated in the pre-Qin period, and oracle bone inscriptions were the germ of Chinese prose, and Shangshu was the first collection of essays. During the Spring and Autumn Warring States period, prose matured and an unprecedented prosperity appeared, and the historical essays "Zuo Chuan", "Chinese", "Warring States Policy", and Zhuzi's essays "Analects", "Mozi", "Mencius", "Zhuangzi", "Gou Zi" and "Han Feizi" constructed the first majestic monument of Chinese prose. The prose of the two Han Dynasty is full of personality and profound connotation, and Sima Qian's "Historical Records" and Ban Gu's "Book of Han" have become the highest examples of historical prose.

In addition to political prose, historical prose, lyrical prose, and travelogue prose, many hand-me-down works have been left behind, such as Zhuge Liang's "Teacher Table", Li Mi's "Chen Qing Table", Wang Xizhi's "Lanting Collection Preface", Li Daoyuan's "Water Jing Note" and so on. The Tang and Song dynasties were a glorious era of Chinese prose, and the prose of the eight masters of the Tang and Song dynasties, Han Yu, Liu Zongyuan, Ouyang Xiu, Su Shi, Min Bu Su Xun, Su Zhe, Wang Anshi, and Zeng Gong, achieved unprecedented artistic achievements, and their prose style became an insurmountable peak for future generations of essayists. Ming and Qing Dynasty prose, Gui Youguang's "Xiang Zhi Xuan Zhi":

Yao Nai's "The Story of Mount Tai" is still recited today. Modern prose was born and developed together with the "May Fourth" New Culture Movement, and the "May Fourth" period was an "era of generalized prose". The 20s was the "era of prose sketches and bridges", and narrative and lyrical sketches were a grand spectacle.

In the '30s and '40s, essays and reportage became leaders in the prose world. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, prose has made great progress, the creative team has grown, and the subject matter has expanded.

The eight masters of the Tang and Song dynasties were Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan in the Tang Dynasty and Ouyang Xiu, Su Xun, Su Shi, Su Zhe, Wang Anshi, and Zeng Gong in the Song Dynasty.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu You compiled the articles of the above eight essayists into the "Eight Gentlemen's Anthology", and the name of the Eight Masters began here. In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Tang Shunzhi compiled the "Wen Compilation", which only took the articles of the eight essayists of the Tang and Song dynasties, and the articles of other writers were not accepted, which played a certain role in the stereotyping and circulation of the names of the eight great masters of the Tang and Song dynasties.

The Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song dynasties are the collective names of the eight great prose writers of the Tang and Song dynasties, namely Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan in the Tang Dynasty and Su Shi, Su Xun, Su Zhe (Su Shi, Su Xun, Su Zhe are called the three Sus), Ouyang Xiu, Wang Anshi, and Zeng Gong (who worshipped Ouyang Xiu as a teacher) in the Song Dynasty. (divided into the two Tang families and the six Song families).

Tang Dynasty: Han Yu - mainly respecting Confucianism and opposing Buddhism include "The Original Dao", "On the Table of Buddha's Bones", "Original Nature", "Shi Shuo", "Ma Shuo", etc., and there are essays that ridicule the social status quo "Miscellaneous Sayings", "Obtaining Lin Jie" and the famous "Twelve Lang Wen";

Liu Zongyuan - the fable "Qian's Donkey" and "Yong's Mouse", philosophical treatises include "Non-Chinese", "Zhenfu", "Theory of Season", "Theory of Judgment", "Heavenly Saying", "Heavenly Pair", and "Yongzhou Eight Notes". These include "The Story of Little Stone Pond", "The Story of the West Mountain Banquet", "The Story of Cobalt Pond", "The Story of the West Hill of Cobalt Pond", "The Story of Yuan's Thirst", "The Story of the Stone Canal", "The Story of the Stone Stream", "The Story of the Little Rock City Mountain" and so on.

Song Dynasty: Ouyang Xiu - "The Legend of the Drunkard Pavilion", "Song Cicada Fu", "Autumn Sound Fu", "Book of Advice with Gao Si", "Discussion of the Friends of the Party", "Preface to the Biography of Lingguan".

Su Xun [xún] -- The Theory of the Six Kingdoms, The Theory of Heng, The Theory of Distinguishing Treachery, The Theory of Guan Zhong, The Book of Quan, etc.

Su Shi - "Water Tune Song Head", "Huanxi Sha", "Jiangchengzi", "Butterfly Love Flower", etc.; The essays include "Chibi Fu", "Later Chibi Fu", "Pingwang Treatise", "Liuhou Treatise", "Shizhong Mountain Chronicle" and so on.

Su Zhe --,Luancheng Collection" 84 volumes, "Luancheng Ying Zhao Collection" 12 volumes.

Zeng Gong [gǒng] - Shang Ouyang Sheren Book", "Shang Cai Bachelor's Book", "Gift Li An Ersheng Preface", "Wang Pingfu Anthology Preface".

Wang Anshi -- "The Story of Traveling to Bao Zen Mountain", "Wound Zhongyong", "Answer to Sima's Advice".

Han Yu advocated the "Ancient Literature Movement", Su Xun is the father of Su Shi and Su Zhe, Su Shi is Su Zhe's elder brother (Su Shi, Su Xun, Su Zhe are called Sansu), Wang Anshi, Zeng Gong (once worshiped Ouyang Xiu as a teacher). It is divided into the Tang two families and the Song six families) In order to make everyone better remember that they have a smooth mouth: Han (Han Yu) Liu (Liu Zongyuan) plus Ouyang (Ouyang Xiu), three Su (Su Shi, Su Xun, Su Zhe) and Zeng (Zeng Gong) Wang (Wang Anshi).

Or: Ouyang Xiu forgot (Wang Anshi) that he once (Zeng Gong) ate Sansu biscuits (Su Shi, Su Xun, Su Zhe) under a willow tree (Liu Zongyuan) in South Korea (Han Yu). Or one Han, one Liu, one Ouyang, three Su Zeng Gong with a king or three Su (Su Shi, Su Xun, Su Zhe) Wang (Wang Anshi) Zeng (Zeng Gong) Ouyang Xiu.

Or, Han Liusan, Su Xiu (Ouyang Xiu), Shi (Wang Anshi), Gong (Zeng Gong).

Among the eight records of Liu Zongyuan and Yongzhou, "The Story of Little Stone Pond" is the most famous. The Eight Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties The Eight Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties is the collective name of the eight great prose writers of the Tang and Song dynasties, namely Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan (collectively known as Han Liu) in the Tang Dynasty and Su Shi, Su Xun, Su Zhe (known as the Three Sus), Ouyang Xiu, Wang Anshi, and Zeng Gong (who worshipped Ouyang Xiu as a teacher) in the Song Dynasty.

Tang and Song Dynasty Prose Eight Masters:

Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan in the Tang Dynasty;

Su Shi, Su Xun, Su Zhe, Ouyang Xiu, Wang Anshi, Zeng Gong in the Song Dynasty.

Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan in the Tang Dynasty;

Song Dynasty: Ouyang Xiu, Zeng Gong, Wang Anshi, Su Xun, Su Shi, Su Zhe.

The Southern Dynasty pun prose is gorgeous, has both sentiment and rhyme, neat sentence structure, natural and fluent, good at using a large number of allusions to express profound thoughts and feelings under certain historical conditions, on the basis of quoting the old classics to create a lot of new classics that are in line with current affairs, mature use of puppet skills, so that the meaning of the text twists and turns without stagnation, creating a format of four or six pairs, mixed with scattered lines, vertical and horizontal. The Northern Dynasties had a concise narrative, fresh writing, and a simple and clear description.

The representative works of the Northern Dynasties are:

1, "Luoyang Jialan":

The book of Yang Xuan of the Northern Wei Dynasty is a geography book and history book with literary value. It mainly records the situation of Luoyang Buddhist Temple, and records a large number of social, political, economic, cultural and other materials, in addition, when the author describes the solemnity and grandeur of Luoyang Temple, he also reveals the feeling of reminiscing about the past and the feeling of nostalgia and sorrow. The narrative is concise, the writing is fresh, mainly prose, and occasionally in the form of even sentences, which is a distinctive prose work.

2. "Notes on the Book of Water":

Written by Li Daoyuan of the Northern Wei Dynasty. According to legend, this book is a note to the "Book of Water", a geographical book written by Sangqin in the Han Dynasty that recorded the waterways of the country. Li Daoyuan quoted more than 400 kinds of books, plus his own travels in various places, trekking mountains and rivers of the note "Water Classic", narrating many geographical monuments, myths and legends and customs on both sides of the river, making a vivid description of the beautiful mountains and rivers in various places, the writing is concise and exquisite, has a high literary quality, and has a great influence on the literature of future generations of landscape travels.

3, "Yan's Family Motto".

Yan Zhitui is a famous thinker, educator, poet, and writer in China during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, he was the most knowledgeable and thoughtful scholar at that time, experienced the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and knew the shortcomings of politics and customs in the North and South, and had insight into the short and long of the South and the North. His theory and practice have had a great influence on future generations, and "Yan's Family Motto" is a summary of his life's experience in establishing oneself, dealing with the world, and learning for learning, and has been praised by later generations as a model of family education, which has a great influence. This is not only manifested in the style of the book's articles that are "clear in quality, detailed and important, plain but not treacherous", as well as in the content of "discussing calligraphy, painting, and pronunciation, and examining allusions, and tasting literature and art", but also in the spirit of the book in the present world of "stating the method of governing the family and distinguishing the fallacies of the times".

During the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Southern Dynasties popularized the pun script, paying attention to the rhetoric, neat battles, and harmonious rhyme. The Northern Dynasties retained a simple and concise prose tradition, with three famous prose works: Li Daoyuan's Notes on the Book of Water (geography), Yang Xuanzhi's Luoyang Jialanji (history), and Yan Zhitui's Yan's Family Motto (family education).

Li Daoyuan's "Notes on the Book of Water" (geography), Yang Xuanzhi's "Luoyang Jialan" (history).

Yan Zhitui's "Yan's Family Motto".

Li Daoyuan's "Notes on the Book of Water"; Yan Zhitui's "Yan's Family Motto": and Yang Xuanzhi's "Luoyang Jialan".

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"Luoyang Jialanji" and Li Daoyuan's "Notes on the Water Classic" and Yan Zhitui's "Yan's Family Motto" are known as the three masterpieces of the Northern Dynasties period in China.

Notes on the Book of Water is a masterpiece of ancient Chinese geography, with a total of 40 volumes. The author is Li Daoyuan in the late Northern Wei Dynasty.

The "Water Classic" is named after the note "Water Classic", and the book "Water Classic" is about 10,000 words, and "Luoyang Jialanji" is referred to as "Jialanji", which is a historical book of ancient Chinese Buddhism.

Yan's Family Motto is the first family motto in the history of the Han nation with rich content and grand system, and it is also an academic work. The author, Yan Zhitui, was a famous writer and educator during the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

The beginning of prose in the Yin Shang era.

In the Yin Shang era, there was writing, and there was also prose to record history. In the Zhou Dynasty, the historians of the vassal states further recorded the historical facts between the countries in simple language and concise writing, such as the Spring and Autumn Period. With the needs of the times, historical literature describing reality was produced, and there were historical works such as "Zuo Chuan", "Chinese", and "Warring States Policy".

Prose is a literary genre that "combines all the beauty in one". Literature is the expression of life and the conveyance of thoughts and feelings. Generally speaking, **, poetry, and drama have very strict requirements in terms of structure, rhythm, cut, dialogue and other arrangements.

The prose, on the other hand, can be freer, and it seems that it only casually expresses its own experiences and feelings, and most of the expressions are fragments of life.