中國文學

光輝燦爛的中國古代文化，保存至今、依然能為我們所欣賞的，最完整的當數中國古代文學。中國古代的音樂、繪畫，也都十分發達，但古樂譜多已散佚，繪畫的真跡能見到的多是宋代以後的。惟有文學，先民創造的短歌與神話，今天仍為我們所熟知；《詩經》裏周朝的皇天后土，依然是我們生活的家園。我們吟詠《詩經》、誦讀諸子，其中有天理、有人情，橫貫三千年的歲月，鑄就了華夏民族華贍沉厚的文化認同。本書就對中國文學作了粗淺的探討，供研究者及文學愛好者參考之用。 ^[1] 

Foreword

The Book of Songs

“Folk Songs of Regions” (“Guofeng”)

The Epic of the Western Zhou People

Prose Writings of Various Schools of Thought during

the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States Period

Tao Te Ching

The Analects

Mencius

Zhuangzi

Qu Yuan and the Elegies of the State of Chu Qu Yuan

The Lament on Encountering Sorrows

Elegies of the State of Chu

Records of the Historian—“The First and Last Great Work by

Historians， Li Sad without Rhyme”

Pre-Qin Historical Books

About Records of the Historian

The Characterization in Records of the Historian

History and Literature

Literature in the Wei and Jin Period and Tad　Yuanming

Li Bai—A Romantic Genius Poet

Du Fu—A Compassionate Sage Poet

“Li and Du the Junior”—Late Tang Poems in the Sad，

Plaintive and Beautiful Style

Li Shangyin

Du Mu

Ci Poetry—Poems That Can Be Sung

Su Shi

Li Qingzhao

Xin Qiji

Two Outstanding Playwrights of the Yuan Opera

Ouan Hanfling

Wang Shifu

Brief Outline of Chinese Classical Fictions

Early Classical Fictions in Chapter-titled Style： 　Romance　of the Three Kingdoms

Outlaws of the Marsh and

Journey to the West

Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio—Pinnacle of Classical

Chinese Fiction

A Dream of Red Mansions

Appendix： A Brief Chronology of China