What's the difference between verse and writing?

The original meaning of "ancient poetry" refers to the poems written by ancient literati. Before and after Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, there appeared a number of five-character poems written by scholars before Wei and Jin, which had no title and no author. Most of them are lyric poems with unique expressive techniques and artistic styles, which are collectively called "ancient poems".

Ancient poetry is a unique style in Chinese, with special format and rhythm. Poetry can be divided into two types according to its rhythm: ancient poetry and modern poetry. Classical poetry and modern poetry are concepts formed in the Tang Dynasty, which are divided from the perspective of poetic rhythm. According to the content, it can be divided into narrative poems, lyric poems, farewell poems, frontier poems, pastoral poems, ancient poems (poems about history) and poems about things.