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Chinese literarure:

China's literary tradition is not the oldest in the world. It is surpassed in thousands of years by the literary traditions of the Near East and Egypt. But we can say that isthe tradition that can boast greater continuity throughout history. The earliest literary evidence, or at least considered literary in China, are the inscriptions found on tortoise shells used to guessduring the Shang Dynasty and the prayers recorded in the bronze sacrificial same dynasty. In these inscriptions and Chinese characters are primitive, with its varieties and developments will stillbe used until today.
The Chinese literature includes an astonishing variety of genres, many of which are not usually considered literary works in the West. A good example of them, and how it can beused to reading the book "The Heart of Literature and the chisel of Dragons", an ambitious work of literary criticism written by Liu Xue in the V century of our era that allows us to glimpse thecomplex literary world of ancient China.

Art in China:

Mural of Dunhuang, Tang Dynasty.
From the beginning of Chinese history were created objects in bronze, jade and bone, which collected thespirit and intended effect in shamanistic rituals.

These forms in bronze and jade show for the first time one of the essential principles of Chinese art: the synthesis between art and the creativespirit and hierarchical social function to which they were designed from its inception. The first of these was shown in the exquisiteness of form, at the origin of the decorative themes as a paradigmtaking the forces of nature and its action on the human spirit and the great technical knowledge of the material that has characterized all art forms.

Complementing both the diversification of forms andthe imagery with which he adorned corresponded to the principles of social hierarchy and ritual use that characterized the beginnings of Chinese civilization in the Shang Dynasty and Zhou Dynasty....