Classical Chinese means turning point, while words can mean turning point. For example, in the Analects of Confucius, "the knower is not as good as the good, and the good is not as good as the happy, which indicates the turning point of knowledge, goodness and happiness." Table order and words can also indicate order. For example, the way of a university is to be well-known, close to the people and stop at the best, in which "Er" is the sequential relationship of "well-known → close to the people and stop at the best".

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Classical Chinese is an article composed of written Chinese language in ancient China, which was used by Han people before the May 4th Movement. It mainly includes written language based on spoken language in pre-Qin period. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, bamboo slips, silk books and other things were used to record characters. With the change of history and the evolution of spoken language, the difference between classical Chinese and spoken language has gradually expanded, and "classical Chinese" has become the exclusive language of scholars.

Classical Chinese is relative to the vernacular Chinese after the New Culture Movement, and there was no such thing as classical Chinese in ancient times. It is characterized by paying attention to the use of allusions, parallel prose and neat melody, including strategies, poems, words, songs, stereotyped writing, parallel prose and other styles. After the modification of literati in past dynasties, it became more and more flashy. Han Yu, a great writer in the Tang Dynasty, initiated the ancient prose movement and advocated returning to popular ancient prose. The classical Chinese in modern books are generally marked with punctuation marks in order to facilitate reading and understanding.

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When people use the term "ancient Chinese", it is given three different meanings in different contexts: ancient Chinese, ancient Chinese and Chinese. Ancient Chinese first refers to "ancient Chinese". In other words, all the languages used by the Han people before the May 4th Movement can be called ancient Chinese. Ancient Chinese has a history of about 3000 years. Just as everything is changing, so is language.

Great changes have taken place in Chinese for more than 3,000 years. According to the changes of Chinese grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation, scholars divide ancient Chinese into three development periods: ancient, medieval and modern.

Ancient times refers to the Shang, Zhou, Qin and Han Dynasties before the 3rd century BC. Medieval period refers to the 4th century to12nd century, namely Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties, Five Dynasties, Ten Kingdoms and Song Dynasties. Modern times refers to 13 century to 19 century, that is, the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties in history.