This new book contains 58 essays by Jia Yi. His works can be roughly divided into three categories: one is a special political paper, such as On Qin; One is to write scattered essays on specific issues, such as Chen Zheng's Poems; Everything else is an essay.
3. Jia Yi's political essays, mainly Chen's political affairs, are few in number, but they have made great achievements. On the one hand, he absorbed the thoughts of Confucianism, Taoism and law in the Warring States period, which made his political essays have the characteristics of adapting to the needs of the times and "applying the world", so they are highly targeted; On the other hand, he inherited the writing technique of "paraphrasing Zhang Wen" in the Warring States period, but he was more frank and eager to speak freely, which made his political essays have the characteristics of combining reason with emotion, momentum and image to arouse people's attention.
Jia Yi's political essays are thorough in reasoning, rigorous in logic, rich in emotion and extraordinary in momentum. They comprehensively expounded profound political thoughts and farsighted strategies for governing the country, vividly reflected the positive attitude towards life and high-spirited spirit of intellectuals during the establishment of the unified feudal empire in the early Han Dynasty, marked the new stage of the development of China's essays, represented the highest achievement of political essays in the early Han Dynasty, and had a great influence on later essays. Lu Xun once said that his and Chao Cuo's articles were "great works of the Western Han Dynasty, which influenced later generations and had far-reaching influence."
5. In addition, there are some essays in Jia Yi's new book, the language is simple or vivid, and narrative reasoning has its own characteristics.