Abstract Under the influence of social changes and political and cultural transformation at the transition from the Western to the Eastern Han Dynasties, Ban Biaos creations underwent new changes compared with the West Han literature. In terms of content, he changed from the exaggerated and imaginative praise of the virtues of the rulers to reflection on the future and destiny of the country and the maintenance of the unity, thus expanding his description the upper class to all walks of life, and discarding the priority of Confucianism to embrace both Confucianism and Taosim. In terms of art, the combination of poetry and prose, the diversified literary expression techniques, elegant and solemn language, and useful attempts at sixcharacter poetry opened up new changes in the Eastern Han literature and had farreaching implications for later literature.
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