Literature in the Western and Eastern Han Dynasties

A total of 29 emperors ruled the Western and Eastern Han dynasties, which lasted for 405 years. They together made a very powerful unified dynasty in the Chinese history. It had a vast territory that extended to North Korea in the east, Vietnam in the south, Congling in the west, and Yinshan in the north, with a population about one-third of the world total. During such a period of great unification, literature developed splendidly, and many literary masters were born. Various literary styles such as Han-Fu, history books, Yuefu songs and poems, political essays, and literati poems all shined in the literary world and occupied an important position in the history of Chinese literature.