View of ancient Chinese prose

-A Brief Introduction to China's Literary Masterpieces (7)

Guanzhi of Ancient Chinese Literature is one of the most popular anthologies of ancient Chinese literature since the Qing Dynasty.

A glimpse of China's ancient literature was selected by Wu Chucai and Wu Tiaohou in the thirty-third year of Qing Emperor Kangxi 1694. Wu Jun, a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, founded the library for a long time. This book is a textbook for students. In addition to this book, Erwu also wrote the Outline of Lu.

Prose is one of the main styles in ancient China. The development of prose has roughly experienced the following stages: First, the pre-Qin period. Shangshu is the first collection of essays. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, a hundred schools of thought contended, resulting in hundred schools of thought's essays. Zuo Zhuan and Warring States Policy are the representatives of historical prose in the pre-Qin period. Stylistic Preparation from Warring States to Later Generations; Zhang Xuecheng; Literature and History: On Poetry Teaching. Second, in the Han Dynasty, prose in this period further developed. "Historical Records" is "the last song of historians, with no rhyme in Li Sao", which represents the highest achievement of prose in Han Dynasty. Third, during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, this period was dominated by temperament, forming a Ma Su style, with Luoyang Shuijing Annotation and Galand Annotation as prominent. Fourth, the Tang and Song Dynasties. The ancient prose movement led by Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan in the middle Tang Dynasty "declined after eight generations". Ouyang Xiu advocated ancient prose in the Northern Song Dynasty, and Su and his son echoed it, and ancient prose gradually occupied the literary world. Fifth, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. This paper basically inherits and develops the spirit of the ancient prose movement in Tang and Song Dynasties. In the Ming Dynasty, there appeared the school of restoring ancient ways of the former and the latter seven scholars, the school of Tang and Song Dynasties who opposed restoring ancient ways, the school of public security who advocated the spirit of nature, and Gui Youguang and other prose masters appeared. Tongcheng School is the most influential school in Qing Dynasty.

The selected articles in "Ancient prose Guanzhi" started in the pre-Qin period and ended in the late Ming dynasty, which generally reflected the general outline and main characteristics of the development of prose from the pre-Qin period to the late Ming dynasty. Among them, there are 34 Zuo Zhuan, Guoyu 1 1, 3 Yang Gongzhuan, 6 Book of Rites, Warring States Policy 14 and Han Yuwen 17. Liu Zongyuan wrote eight articles, Ouyang Xiu wrote 1 1, Su wrote 1 1, Su wrote three articles and Wang Anshi wrote three articles ... * * 222. The articles selected in this book are excellent works, with concise language, short and pithy, and easy to recite. The standard of Hengwen basically takes both ideological and artistic into account. Of course, the so-called ideology is based on not violating feudal orthodoxy. Candidates take ancient prose as authentic works, and it is not excluded that Ma Bingwen earned 4 articles, which was valuable at that time; At the middle or end of the article, candidates have some clips or tails to help beginners understand the article; In terms of style, it is worthy of recognition to change the habit of predecessors to classify by style, but to take the times as the classics and writers as the latitude.

There are also people who have not chosen properly in this book. Because the choice is mainly the formulation strategy during the imperial examination, some articles with strong stereotyped writing atmosphere are selected. However, as an introduction to ancient Chinese prose, it still has its value of existence.