Era Characteristics and Causes of Han Fu's Natural History Writing
The natural history is the most important cultural trend in the writing system of Han Fu.The Han-Fu's natural history writing undergoes apparent changes in the four periods.In the early period of the Western Han Dynasty,the writers usually continued to use the classics of poetry and songs,and the phenomenon of laying out in-comparable objects was not prominent;in the heyday of the Western Han Dynasty,the writers indulged in the se-lection of ostentatious and novel objects,and natural history writing gradually became a paradigm;in the early peri-od of the Eastern Han Dynasty,the writers frequently used the incomparable objects related to the theme of the two capitals,and the concept of etiquette and morality became increasingly prominent;in the middle and late period of the Eastern Han Dynasty,the villagers and scholars worshiped appreciation of incomparable objects,and the writ-ing changed from"portraying the grandeur of the capital and the glory of the countryside"to"drawing inspiration from external objects".In general,the natural history writing not only presents the remarkable characteristics in the transition of the rulers'thoughts and strategies for governing the country for more than 400 years in the Han Dynas-ty but also objectively reveals the internal motivation of the literary transformation.
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