On Fiction Elements in "Mencius"

Several kinds of literary style in pre-Qin Dynasty is the beginning of Chinese literature and the embryonic stage.Novels which appeared in the history of literature later can also be found in the pre-Qin prose in its infancy with a variety of factors.Mencius as an important representative of pre-Qin Philosophic prose,it contains several elements of later fiction.Fiction as the novel’s most central elements manifests in mainly in the form of political allegory and the ideal blueprint;the figures in is represented by Mencius as the main active live image in the book;circumstances and environment of the book are shown with the help of line drawing techniques.Prose of Mencius and other thinkers opened up a broad road for the later development of novel.