Literature belongs to one of the humanities, and keeps pace with philosophy, religion, law and politics at the top of the social structure. It originated from human thinking activities. Oral literature first appeared, usually combined with music to form lyric poems that can be sung. The earliest written documents are China's The Book of Songs, Indian Ramayana and ancient Greek Ilion Ji.
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Types of traditional literature:
1, ancient poetry
Also known as "ancient poetry" and "ancient style", it refers to the poems before the Tang Dynasty (mainly in the Han and Wei Dynasties) and the works that imitate the poems before the Tang Dynasty. It is developed from folk songs, without seeking opposition, level and rhyme freedom. Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen in the middle Tang Dynasty used Yuefu to create new poems, which still belong to the category of classical poetry.
2. Modern poetry
Compared with classical poetry, a poetic style, also known as "modern poetry" and "metrical poetry", has strict rules on the number, number of words, level and rhyme of sentences. There are two kinds: metrical poems and quatrains.
Step 3: rhythm
A style of modern poetry, divided into five laws and seven methods. There are certain norms and requirements in phonology, level tone, sentence pattern and antithesis. The whole poem consists of eight sentences, which are divided into the first couplet, the parallel couplet, the neck couplet and the tail couplet.
4. quatrains
A style of modern poetry, which is divided into five sections and seven sections and consists of four sentences, is generally considered as a "half-section poem".
5. Chu ci
A poetic genre named after the appearance of the southern Chu region during the Warring States Period, represented by Qu Yuan's Li Sao, is also called "Sao Style". Features: a large number of fairy tales, full of fantasy and romance; In addition to lyricism, layout methods are widely used; The sentence pattern is relatively plain, and the word "Xi" is widely used.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Traditional Literature