What is the longest poem in history?

For a long time, western academic circles have always regarded Mahabharata as the "longest" epic in the world. The authoritative New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (version 1993) points out: "Mahabharata is the longest poem in the world. Its elite school is about 654.38+ million ode, which is nearly 7 times of the sum of Hiriart and Odyssey. According to the statistics of western scholars, just singing the core part of this grand narrative (the dialogue part of the two main characters), according to the calculation of singing an "ode" every minute (a group of dialogues is an ode), it needs to be sung for 25 days and nights! Its narrative structure is like a group of huge buildings, connected by halls and overlapping courtyards, surrounded by corridors and interconnected paths. Numerous "exclamations" are independent and interrelated, and often have their own narrators, interlocutors and even their own audiences; There are 300 to 400 storytellers in it alone. In this way, not only the story is covered by the story, but also the dialogue, which makes the story clues intertwined and the plot development fascinating. Of course, the so-called "longest" statement is not accurate today. The epic Gesar, which has been circulated among Tibetan people in China for a long time, is much bigger than Mahabharata. Take the singing books of Sangzhu, a famous Tibetan singer, which are being published one after another as an example: there are 45 Tibetan singing books with an average of 400 pages, which is only about two-thirds of his total singing stock. The ability of these folk singers to remember and sing such super stories is both awe-inspiring and amazing.