The first poet in our country was Qu Yuan (340 - 278 B.C.). He was a famous writer, politician and poet in the Chu State. His representative works, such as the Songs of Chu, were regarded as classics in the history of Chinese literature. His poems express feelings, describe natural scenery and reflect social reality as the theme, which has a high artistic value and cultural content.
Our country's first historian and writer was Sima Qian.
Mr. Wu Liu referred to the Tang Dynasty writer Tao Yuanming. Tao Yuanming (305 - 365) was a writer, ideologist, and politician in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He was born at the end of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and died during the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Tao Yuanming advocated returning to nature and pursuing the harmony between nature and society. His poems were fresh and natural, indifferent to fame and fortune, and secluded in the countryside. He was known as the "Pastoral Poet".
The first essay in our country was Spring and Autumn Dew.
China's first great work of literary realism was 'Dream of the Red Chamber'.
The earliest people who discovered writing in our country were probably the oracle bones of the Shang Dynasty. The oracle bone script was one of the earliest written records in China. It appeared from the late Shang Dynasty to the early Zhou Dynasty and was mainly used to record business transactions, wars, and political events. The writing style of oracle bone inscriptions was unique, artistic, and decorative.
Our country's first historian and writer was Sima Qian. He was born into a noble family in the Han Dynasty in 131 B.C. He was a famous historian and writer, and one of the founders of Chinese history books. The " Records of the Historian " that he wrote was the most important book in ancient Chinese history books and was known as the " Great Book of Historians." Sima Qian also created famous literary works such as Han Feizi, which had a profound impact on the development of Chinese literature and culture.
China's first novel in the form of a chapter was " Dream of the Red Chamber ", which was written in the Qing Dynasty. This novel was a long novel describing the decline of China's feudal society and was also a classic in the history of Chinese novels.
The first book in our country was the Book of Songs. It was the earliest collection of poems in ancient China, which included poems from the Pre-Qin period (11th century B.C. to 6th century B.C.). The Book of Songs is divided into three parts: Feng, Ya, and Song. It contains 305 poems, of which 160 are Feng, 14 are Ya, and 11 are Song.
China's first vernacular novel was " A Madman's Diary." It was published in 1918 at the Beijing Vernacular Fictions Association and became the pioneer work of vernacular novels. This article narrated the experience of a pretentious but actually ridiculous "madman" in the first person. It showed the author's deep insight into human nature and criticism of social reality through irony and ridicule of the political, cultural and social status quo at that time. The publication of A Madman's Diary marked the official birth of vernacular novels as a literary form in China and laid the foundation for the development of modern Chinese literature.
The first dictionary in our country was Zilin, which was created by Zheng Zhong, a scholar of the Western Han Dynasty. It was the earliest comprehensive dictionary in our country and also one of the important materials for the study of Chinese characters.