This is the background against which the expansive and ambitious literary style of the Han took shape. Writers wrote with the elegance of a Chu poem and the sophistry of a diplomat. In tackling a subject, they endeavored to integrate virtually every possibility and use every relevant term. Their writing reflected the grandiose Zeitgeist of the Han Empire, and became the major form of Han literature.
在這樣的背景下，出現縱覽大觀的漢賦，揉合了楚辭辭藻、縱橫家辭令，描寫事物時，把所有可能性都納進文章、甚至同一事物可能用到的所有形容詞都寫入文內，形成了漢代文學的一個重要形式。