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Chinese Events that Influenced Literature Timeline

  • Period: 1400 BCE to 1100 BCE

    Earliest evidence of Chinese writing

  • Period: 1000 BCE to 6000 BCE

    Earliest Chinese poems composed

  • Period: 551 BCE to 479 BCE

    Confucious

    Teaches ethical values like honesty
  • 500 BCE

    Lao Tzu

    Founder of Taoism
    Develops teachings of Tao Te Ching
  • 500 BCE

    Shih Ching

    Book of odes
  • 330 BCE

    Chuang Tzu

    Taoist philosipher writes this
  • 54

    History of the Former Han Dynasty

    Pan ku writes this
  • 100

    First Chinese Dictionary Compiled

  • 701

    Birth of Li Po

  • 712

    Birth of Tu Fo