What is the earliest literary genre? It uses concise language according to certain syllables, tones and requirements. ...

Poetry is the earliest literary genre, which originated from the labor sound of primitive people and is a kind of literature with rhyme and singing. It expresses social life and people's spiritual world with concise language, rich feelings and rich imagination according to certain syllables, tones and rhythms. Most of the ancient poems are four words, such as The Book of Songs, and most of them are five or seven words after the Eastern Han Dynasty and Wei Dynasty. There were ancient and modern poems in the Tang Dynasty, and new poems in the May 4th Movement. In ancient China, happy poems were called songs and unhappy poems were called poems. Whether it is harmonious or not, it has a strong musical beauty. Poetry is divided into ancient poetry, modern poetry and new poetry according to the times; Divided into narrative poems and lyric poems according to their forms of expression; According to the content, it can be divided into four categories: pastoral poetry, landscape poetry, science poetry and object-chanting poetry. 1. Classical poetry, also known as "ancient poetry" and "ancient style", refers to the poems before the Tang Dynasty (mainly during the Han and Wei Dynasties) and works that imitate the poems created 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 is a kind of poetic style as opposed to ancient poetry, also known as "modern poetry" and "metrical poetry". There are strict rules on the number, number of words, level and rhyme of sentences. There are two kinds: metrical poems and quatrains. 3. Rhyme is a style of modern poetry, which is divided into five laws and seven laws. 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. Quatrains are a style of modern poetry, divided into five quatrains and seven quatrains, which are generally considered as "semi-poetic style". 5. A style of Chu Ci, named after its appearance in Southern Chu during the Warring States Period, is represented by Qu Yuan's Lisao, also known as "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. 6. New poetry, also known as "modern poetry", refers to the new style poetry produced by China since the May 4th Movement. Formally, it broke the limitation of old-style poetry and adopted a relatively free form and colloquial vernacular, which was convenient for reflecting social life and expressing thoughts and feelings. New poetry requires conciseness, rhyme and general neatness. 7. A style of Yuefu folk songs. Song is a general term, boasting about skills and acting skills, which is not strictly different from "singing", "song", "quotation", "sigh" and "tune".