When it comes to Chinese literature, classical Chinese texts come to my  mind. For me, a Chinese  lesson in high school mainly consists of classical Chinese and composition. Chinese  learning appealed me a lot due to the conciseness of classical Chinese.

My Chinese  teachers used to recommend us to recite some classical passages so as to  understand them better. Chinese literature began with record keeping and  divination on Oracle Bones. The extensive collection of books that have been  preserved since the Zhou Dynasty demonstrate just how advanced the  intellectuals were at one time. Indeed, the era of the Zhou Dynasty is often  looked to as the touchstone of Chinese cultural development. The Five Cardinal  Points are the foundation for almost all major studies.

The Song Dynasty was also a period of great scientific literature, and  saw the creation of works such as Su Song's Xin Yixiang Fayao and Shen Kuo's  Dream Pool Essays. There were also enormous works of historiography and large  encyclopedias, such as Sima Guang's Zizhi Tongjian of 1084 AD or the Four Great  Books of Song fully compiled and edited by the 11th century. Notable Confucianists,  Taoists and scholars of all classes have made significant contributions to and  from documenting history to authoring saintly concepts that seem hundred of  years ahead of time. Many novels such as Four Great Classical Novels spawned  countless fictional stories. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, Chinese culture  would embark on a new era with written vernacular Chinese for the common  citizens. Hu Shih and Lu Xun would be pioneers in modern literature.

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