Editing Chengdu (section)

===Literature===
Some of China's most important literature comes from Chengdu. The city has been home to literary giants, such as [[Sima Xiangru]] and [[Yang Xiong (author)|Yang Xiong]], two masters of [[Fu (poetry)|Fu]], a mixture of descriptive prose and verse during the Tang dynasty; [[Li Bai]] and [[Du Fu]], the most eminent poets of the [[Tang dynasty|Tang]] and [[Song dynasty|Song]] dynasties respectively; [[Yang Shen'an]], a famous scholar of the Ming dynasty; and [[Guo Moruo]] and [[Ba Jin]], two well-known modern writers. [[Chang Qu]], a historian of Chengdu during the Jin dynasty, compiled the earliest local historical records, the [[Record of Hua Yang State]]. [[Zhao Chongzuo]], a poet in Chengdu during the Later Shu Kingdom, edited [[Among the Flowers]], the first anthology of [[Ci (poetry)|Ci]] in China's history. [[Meng Chang]], the king of Later Shu, wrote the first couplet for the Spring Festival, which says, "A harvest year accepts celebrations, good festivals foreshadow long springs."{{citation needed|date=October 2024}}

In 2023, Chengdu hosted the [[81st World Science Fiction Convention]], having beat out Winnipeg, Canada, in site-selection voting in 2021.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://discon3.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Worldcon2023SiteSelectTally.pdf | title = Worldcon 2023 Selection Results | publisher = DisCon 3: The 79th World Science Fiction Convention | date = December 2021 | access-date = 2022-09-10 | archive-date = 11 September 2022 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220911005610/https://discon3.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Worldcon2023SiteSelectTally.pdf | url-status = dead }}</ref>