(1) pre-Qin prose: including zhuzi prose and historical prose. Zhuzi prose is mainly argumentative, such as the Analects of Confucius, Mencius, Zhuangzi; historical prose is mainly historical subject matter prose, where the account of historical events, historical figures of the articles and books are historical prose, such as the Zuozhuan.
(2) Two Han prose: Sima Qian's "Historical Records" in the Western Han period pushed biographical prose to an unprecedented peak. After the Eastern Han Dynasty, individual single prose forms such as books, records, tablets, inscriptions, treatises, and preambles began to appear. The four great masters of Han Fu - Sima Xiangru, Yang Xiong, Ban Gu, and Zhang Heng - were known as the four great masters of Han Fu in later times. It is also said that Sima Xiangru, Meixian, Jia Yi and Huainan Xiaoshan.
Tang and Song prose: under the impetus of the ancient literary movement, the prose writing method is increasingly complex, the emergence of literary prose, produced a number of excellent landscape travel, fables, biographies, miscellaneous writings, and other works, the famous "Tang and Song dynasty eight" also emerged at this time.