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The history of Chinese literature is long and glorious, reflecting the rise and fall of China for five thousand years. It is the most proud treasure of the Chinese nation. As a Chinese, it is necessary to understand some basic literary common sense. This book divides Chinese literature into five volumes: poetry, prose, novels, drama, and lyrics. Each volume is divided into several small questions, explaining the basic knowledge of Chinese literature in a question-and-answer format. It includes general descriptions of literature of various eras and genres, as well as analysis of specific writers, works, and genres. In terms of time span, it basically starts from ancient times and goes down to modern times.

Under the social background of comprehensively reviving Chinese culture, the whole society is paying more and more attention to Chinese classics and excellent traditional culture. Readers are in urgent need of works that grasp the macro perspective and start from the micro perspective to comprehensively analyze the classicity and contemporary value of Chinese classics. "Annotations on the Analects of Confucius" adopts both ancient and modern annotations and selects the best, elucidating the essence of the text through annotation and translation; and based on the present, it reveals its enlightenment and significance. This work is the result of the author's study of "The Analects" in the past ten years. All the contents have been presented in the form of lectures and have produced relatively strong responses among the listeners.

This book is one of the "National Reading Classics" (paperback). There are eighteen chapters in the "Shan Hai Jing", which mainly cover geographical knowledge in folklore, including mountains, rivers, roads, ethnic groups, products, medicines, sacrifices, witch doctors, etc. It also preserves many popular ancient myths, legends and fables, including Kuafu chasing the sun, Nuwa patching up the sky, Jingwei reclaiming the sea, and Dayu controlling the floods. This book is an annotation of the full text of "The Classic of Mountains and Seas". The annotations are concise and the translation is popular and fluent. It is an excellent reader of "The Classic of Mountains and Seas".

The pre-Qin period was the beginning of Chinese literature. Literature and other cultural events were integrated without being separated, and poetry and rituals interacted closely and intertextually. Based on previous research, this book starts from the perspective of ancient customs and rituals, and comprehensively uses research methods from related disciplines such as poetics, philology, archeology, cultural anthropology, etc., Breaking through the previous research pattern that focused on the Book of Songs, Songs of Chu, ballads, and lost poems. The author combines the process of Pre-Qin rituals from the separation of sacred and secular to communication and interaction, describes and analyzes the connotation, generation, form, dissemination, evolution and authorship of Pre-Qin poetry, and proposes new perspectives such as "song as ritual recitation theory", "epic as ritual narrative theory", "carnivalization of love songs" and "Nine Songs of Chu Song theory". It is a useful attempt to construct new categories and new theories for the study of Pre-Qin poetry.