The most important literary work in the Spring and Autumn Period should be Li Sao, and the cultural celebrity is naturally Qu Yuan.
Then there was the Qin Dynasty, and there were not many literary works, which was mainly caused by Qin Shihuang's obstruction of the road of cultural development, the most serious of which was burning books to bury Confucianism.
The most famous styles in Han Dynasty are Fu and four-character poems. The representative works of Sima Xiangru, a famous poet, are Changmen Fu and Zixu Fu. The famous poet of four-character poems is Cao Cao, and Short Songs is his masterpiece. And Cao Zhi, poetry and fu have reached a very high level. The seven-step poem and Luo Shenfu are praised by later generations.
The overall cultural level of Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties did not reach the height of Han Dynasty, but poetry and calligraphy developed greatly, such as Wang Xizhi and Wang Xianzhi. The most famous cultural celebrities in this period are Tao Yuanming and Xie Lingyun. Tao Yuanming's poems became popular after his death, and the most famous work is Peach Blossom Garden. Xie Xuan's grandson, Xie Lingyun, was clever since he was a child, and he was the pioneer of China Landscape Poetry School. His main works include Entering East Road, Climbing to the Sea at the Beginning, Rewarding My Brother and Huilian, Climbing to Shimen Top, Sleeping on Shimen Rock, etc. He thinks highly of himself all his life, except Cao Zhi. He once said that if there is a stone for literary talent in the world, Cao Zhi accounts for eight fights, I account for one and a half fights, and other literati add up to half fights. This is the origin of the idiom "talented people come forth in large numbers".
There are many cultural celebrities in the Tang Dynasty, such as Du Li, Bai Juyi, Wang Wei, Luo, Liu Yuxi, Han Yu, Liu Zongyuan, and Cui Hu. For major literary works, please refer to 300 Tang poems.
In the history of five dynasties and ten countries, the development of culture is a slow process. During this period, it was Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty. Li Yu moved Ci, a popular folk art, to the court, which laid a very good foundation for the great development of Song Ci in the Song Dynasty. His famous work, of course, is the first Young Yumi Beauty, which still makes people cry and ruined his life.
Song Dynasty is an ocean of poetry. The most famous is Song Ci, but there are also many poets among them. Three poets: Su Shi, Xin Qiji and Li Qingzhao. Other famous ones are Huang Tingjian, Qin Guan, Lu You, Su Zhe, Su Xun, Ouyang Xiu, Wang Anshi and Yue Fei. Their representative works are too numerous to enumerate. Please check it online. There are many of them.
The main literary forms of the Yuan Dynasty are Yuan Qu and Drama. However, although Yuanqu is said to be the same as Tang poetry and Song poetry, personally, it has not reached the height of the first two, and can only be seen in the streets. Everyone in the Four Songs of Yuan Dynasty is also a master of Yuan Zaju. They are Guan Hanqing, Bai Pu, Ma Zhiyuan and Zheng Guangzu. Yuan Zaju had a great influence on later generations. Guan Hanqing is a household name, and his masterpiece Dou Eyuan has become a cultural gene. Now people always say "I am more wronged than Dou E".
There were also a large number of literati in the Ming Dynasty who were good at poetry and songs. For example, Jie Jin, Yang Shen and Xu Wenchang, three great talents in Ming Dynasty, and Tang Yin, Zhu Zhishan, Wen Zhiming and Xu Zhenqing, four great talents in Jiangnan, are widely circulated. However, the most famous literary form in Ming Dynasty is novel, and the four ancient and modern fantastic books, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, The Journey to the West and Jin Ping Mei, are all representative works of this period, which also makes Luo Guanzhong, Wu Cheng'en, Shi Naian and others become immortal memories.
The masterpiece of the Qing Dynasty is undoubtedly Cao Xueqin's Dream of Red Mansions, and its artistic achievements can't be surpassed so far. In terms of poetry, to be honest, only Nalan Xingde and Gong Zizhen are famous. The representative works of Nalan Xingde are all included in Nalan Ci, and Gong Zizhen's are also included in Jihai Zashi. In fact, I think the main form of literary works in this period is drama. After Class Four of Huizhou School went to Beijing during the Qianlong period, the quintessence of Chinese Peking Opera began to take shape today. After hundreds of years of development, he finally made extraordinary achievements in Xianfeng, Tongzhi and Guangxu, which is naturally related to the personal preference of Empress Dowager Cixi and is also the trend of the development of traditional Chinese opera art. Tian's masterpiece is Dingjun Mountain.