Guwen Guanzhi

"Guanzhi of Ancient Prose" is an anthology of ancient prose compiled by Wu Chucai and Wu Tiaohou's uncle and nephew in the Qing Dynasty for private school teaching. It includes a total of 222 essays from the pre-Qin period to the end of the Ming Dynasty. The selection of "Guwen Guanzhi" is comprehensive and focused. Although it covers all dynasties, it highlights the pre-Qin and Tang and Song Dynasties; it focuses on selecting ideological and artistic works; works of the same genre are selected from different angles to avoid similarities; The selected articles are short in length, very distinctive, and widely read. "Guwen Guanzhi" has been widely praised since it was published, and it can be regarded as a must-read textbook for beginners of classical Chinese.