Refers to prose articles that do not pay attention to rhythm
Prose refers to a literary genre together with poetry, novels, and dramas, including essays, essays, travel notes, etc.
1. Ancient prose: In ancient my country, in order to distinguish it from rhyme and parallel prose, all prose articles that did not rhyme or rearrange couples, including classics, biographies, and history books, were called prose.
The development history of ancient Chinese prose:
(1) Pre-Qin prose: including prose by various scholars and historical prose. The prose of various scholars is mainly about discussion, such as "The Analects", "Mencius" and "Zhuangzi"; historical prose is prose based on historical themes. All articles and books that describe historical events and historical figures are historical prose, such as "Zuo Zhuan" 》.
(2) Prose of the Han Dynasty: Sima Qian's "Historical Records" during the Western Han Dynasty pushed biographical prose to an unprecedented peak. After the Eastern Han Dynasty, individual single prose forms such as books, records, tablets, inscriptions, treatises, and prefaces began to appear. The Four Masters of Han Fu - Sima Xiangru, Yang Xiong, Ban Gu, and Zhang Heng are known as the Four Masters of Han Fu by later generations. In addition, Sima Xiangru, Meicheng, Jia Yi, Huainan Xiaoshan.
Prose of the Tang and Song Dynasties: Driven by the ancient prose movement, the writing style of prose became increasingly complex, literary prose appeared, and many excellent landscape travel notes, fables, biographies, essays and other works were produced. The famous "Tang Dynasty" The Eight Great Masters of Song Dynasty also emerged at this time.
(3) Prose in the Ming Dynasty: First, there were the "Seven Sons" who mainly imitated the ancient times, and then there were the Tang and Song Dynasty schools who advocated that works "all flow from the chest", the more famous one is Gui Youguang.
Qing Dynasty prose: Qing Dynasty prose represented by the Tongcheng School pays attention to the embodiment of "righteousness". Yao Nai, a representative writer of the Tongcheng School, summarized the prose style of ancient my country and divided it into 13 categories, including debates, prefaces and postscripts, memorials, epistles, prefaces, edicts, biographies, epigraphs, miscellanies, inscriptions, praises, Ci Fu, mourning.
2. Modern prose: refers to a literary style that is also known as poetry, novels, and dramas. It is characterized by expressing the author's views and feelings and revealing its social significance through the description of certain fragments or life events in real life. It can be processed and created based on real people and true events; it does not necessarily have a complete storyline and characters. Instead, it focuses on expressing the author's feelings about life, with flexibility in material selection, conception, and strong lyricism. The "I" in prose is usually the author himself; the language is not limited by rhythm, and the expression methods are diverse. Integrate narration, discussion, lyricism, and description into one, and you can also focus on it; according to the needs of the content and theme, you can use typical details and life fragments to create image descriptions, psychological portrayals, environmental renderings, etc. Atmosphere enhancement, etc., you can also use symbols and other artistic techniques like poetry to create a certain artistic conception. Prose can be expressed in various forms, including essays, short reviews, sketches, essays, sketches, features, travel notes, communications, letters, diaries, memoirs, etc., all belong to prose. In short, prose is short in length, free in form, widely based on materials, flexible in writing, and beautiful in language. It can reflect life relatively quickly and is deeply loved by people.