Jian'an literature was promoted in the inherent direction of literature in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, but this development also had a leaping nature. Its most significant progress is the prominence of personality traits and the emotional table

Jian'an literature was promoted in the inherent direction of literature in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, but this development also had a leaping nature. Its most significant progress is the prominence of personality characteristics, the intensity of emotional expression, and the conscious pursuit of the beauty of the art form.

Under the trend of attaching importance to personal value, the courage of writers to break stereotypes and create their own style is the main reason why the personality characteristics of literature are highlighted; In an environment of war, famine and plague, Jian'an writers who engaged in or prepared to engage in practical political activities combined the sorrow of sorrow and chaos with the ambition to establish immortal deeds, resulting in a particularly strong emotional expression in their works; The pursuit of the beauty of the art form is fundamentally due to the richness and meticulousness of emotional expression.

Another major change in Jian'an literature was that poetry began to dominate all literary creation. The mainstream of the literature of the two Han chinese literati is rhetoric. During the Jian'an period, the creation of lexical endowments was still flourishing, and the transfer from large gifts of physical objects to small gifts of lyricism was completely completed, and considerable achievements were made. However, the sadness and generosity and deep and thick feelings that Jian'an literati need to express, not to mention the great endowment of body and material, even the lyrical small endowment cannot be properly and fully expressed. Because the beauty of rhetoric is ultimately formed by laying out and rendering, it cannot form the intensity required to express generous and sad feelings. Therefore, the center of literati creation shifted from rhetoric to poetry, thus forming the first climax of literati poetry in the history of Chinese literature.