China's ancient literature has a long history. If it has a long history, only ancient Greek literature and ancient Indian literature can match it. It is closely linked with China's great history and culture, forming its own unique literary development vein, showing its unique nationality, inheritance and times. It is dominated by Chinese literature, and at the same time it is compatible with the history and literature of other ethnic minorities, which constitutes the magnificent ancient literature of China. China's ancient poems, essays, operas and novels all have obvious traceable history. It presents a trend of continuous development, enrichment and perfection in creation and theory. The evolution of each theme is a clear history. It fully embodies and shows the profoundness of its history and culture. China literature is deeply influenced by the history and culture of China, and each era has a representative literary style, which is closely related to the politics, economy and culture of each era. Various styles permeate and influence each other, learn from each other and have the characteristics of blending. In terms of literary connotation, it fully embodies the special charm of China characters, and shows the great richness and tension of China ancient literature with China ancient characters as the carrier. This is unmatched by any nation in the world.

China's literature has various styles, including poetry, prose, ci, opera and novel, each of which has its own characteristics of the times.

Pre-Qin literature includes three stages: primitive society, slave society and feudal society since Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties. Ancient ballads and myths are the source of China literature. Poetry and prose are the main styles of pre-Qin literature. Poetry is represented by The Book of Songs and Songs of the South. The Book of Songs has influenced the later generations with the spread of "six meanings" of style, elegance, ode, fu, comparison and honor. The best essays are Zuo Zhuan, Mandarin, Warring States Policy and hundred schools of thought Essays. At the same time, the pre-Qin literature also gave birth to many other literary themes. Among them, hundred schools of thought's myths and legends, historical prose and fable prose are the source of the novel, and Ci can be traced back to Chu Ci. There has been a bud of drama in Nine Songs. China's literary thought was also conceived in the pre-Qin, Qin and Han Dynasties. There are many schools of thought such as Confucianism, Taoism, Legalism, Mohism, Yin and Yang, militarists, novelists, miscellaneous notes, farmers and so on. These thoughts have a great influence on China people's world outlook, outlook on life and values. Confucianism and Taoism, in particular, had a far-reaching influence on the whole intellectuals and people from all walks of life in ancient China. How they live and how they treat life depends on the choice of traditional ideas. Confucianism and Taoism, in particular, are accepted by scholars in China, deeply rooted and unshakable, even today. Each school has its own theory, and they write books and vigorously publicize their own ideas. The formation and development of a hundred schools of thought contended during the Warring States period brought prosperity and prosperity to literary prose. Their theory has influenced the way of thinking of China people and determined their choice of everything. In terms of poetry creation, Qu Yuan, the first great poet in China, appeared at the end of the Warring States Period. He created the theme of China's patriotic poems in ancient times, created a new poetic style of Chu Ci, broke the lonely poetic world for 300 years after The Book of Songs, and stood out one after another, shining brilliantly, turning a new page in China's poems. In literary theory, some theoretical viewpoints and aesthetic thoughts have appeared in essays of various schools. Pre-Qin literature is the glorious starting point of China literature.

The literature of Qin and Han Dynasties is mainly the Han Dynasty. Qin Shihuang unified China in 22 1 BC, established unified centralization, and started a brand-new page in history. However, due to the severe ideological constraints, Qin literature is in a blank state. Only Lv Buwei's Spring and Autumn Annals of Lushi and Li Si's prose before the unification of Qin Dynasty have no representative works. Literature in Han Dynasty is represented by prose, Han Fu and Yuefu folk songs. Representative writers include Jia Yi, Chao Cuo and Sima Qian. Sima Qian's "Historical Records" recorded the history of China from the legendary emperor to the era of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty for 3,000 years in the spirit of "factual record". Historical Records was praised by Lu Xun as "a masterpiece of historians, with no rhyme in Li Sao". Historical Records is of great historical and literary value. Han Yuefu poetry brought fresh blood to the poetry world in the form of folk creation and narrative poetry, which provided an example and motivation for literati poetry creation. In the history of China's poetry development, the folk songs of Han Yuefu are the third important development stage after The Book of Songs and Songs of the South. Brewed the emergence of five-character poems. Five-character poems written by scholars in the Eastern Han Dynasty were produced and developed on the basis of Yuefu folk songs in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Nineteen Ancient Poems, written anonymously, is a masterpiece of five-character poems written by scholars in the Eastern Han Dynasty. With high artistic attainments, it created a new style of China's lyric poetry. The achievements of Han literature in prose and poetry created conditions for Jian 'an literature.

The literature of Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties was formed under the influence of metaphysical speculative philosophy. But literature is moving towards the age of consciousness. Scholars show a strong sense of hardship, depression and self-awareness in their works. The literary achievements are mainly poetry, and the literary achievements of Jian 'an are represented by "Three Caos". Because of its sad, generous and vigorous creative style, it is called "Jian 'an Style" or "Jian 'an Style" by later generations. Xie Lingyun was the first person to write landscape poems vigorously. At the end of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there was an outstanding poet, Tao Yuanming, who was the most accomplished poet in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. He stood proudly in the muddy times with his noble sentiment of not colluding with the rulers and his independent attitude towards life, showing his extraordinary personality and poetic style. Bao Zhao was born in poverty and expressed his frustration with his talent with a cynical attitude. Parallel prose has been popular for a while, because it only pays attention to form and ignores the expression of content. The only masterpieces handed down from generation to generation are The Northern Yi Shan Written by Kong Zhijue and The Book with Chen Bozhi written by Qiu Chi. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, novels began to flourish. The main forms are mystery novels and character novels. Representative works include Gan Bao's Searching for the Gods and Liu Yiqing's Shi Shuo Xin Yu. Literary theory and literary criticism are unprecedentedly prosperous. The systematic works include Cao Pi's Essays on Canon, Lu Ji's Wen Fu, Zhi Yu's Li Sao, Liu Xie's Wen Xin Diao Long, Zhong Rong's Shi Pin and so on, which have had a far-reaching impact on the development of literature. And an anthology of articles. Such as Xiao Tong's Selected Works of Zhaoming and Xu Ling's Ode to a New Yutai. Literature is in its heyday.