Prose can be divided into three types: 1. Narrative prose is mainly narrative, the narrative plot is incomplete, but it is very concentrated, and the emotion in narrative permeates between the lines. It focuses on reflecting the essence of things from the development and changes of narrative characters and events, and selects themes from one angle to express the author's thoughts and feelings with factors such as time, place, characters and events. 2. Lyric prose describes the scenery and expresses the author's feelings about real life, * * * and will. Pay attention to express the author's thoughts and feelings, express the author's thoughts and feelings. This kind of prose narrates and describes specific things, but usually it doesn't run through the whole story. Its outstanding feature is strong lyricism. 3. Philosophy Prose Philosophy is the infiltration of feelings, the spark of thoughts, the condensation of thoughts and the crystallization of wisdom. It runs through ancient and modern times, across China and foreign countries, embraces the world, penetrates the society of life, and resides in thousands of landscapes in the short and flashing field of thinking. Smart authors are good at grasping the flash of philosophy and writing rich and thought-provoking beautiful articles in the form of pen and ink. Sogou Encyclopedia-Prose Prose is a wonderful flower in literature. China's literature has traces of prose for a long time, such as Ouyang Xiu's Zuiweng Pavilion, Fan Zhongyan's Yueyang Tower and so on. But the most successful is Xu Xiake's travel notes. Although this article belongs to the category of travel notes, in content and thought, it broke away from the simple lyrical article of borrowing scenery and created a new genre of prose. Since modern times, a large number of essayists have emerged in China. Such as Zhu Ziqing, Yang Shuo and Ai Qing. Some of their works are fresh and beautiful, and some are profound and dignified. But they all recorded and admired the establishment, growth and development of the new China. This has a profound influence on the later prose style. To sum up, there are two main aspects worthy of attention in prose, namely genre and style. Let's talk about genre first. There are several prose genres now. There are essays, modal particles, travel notes, narrative lyricism and so on. With the author's different feelings, the definition of each essay is different. In a few words, speak your mind, such prose is very essence, and complement modern poetry; Delicate and meticulous artistic conception, such prose is very concise, the author must have profound meaning, and must be understood in combination with the topic. Talk about style. There are fresh, dignified, joyful, sad, positive, lonely and countless. But there is a purpose, that is, the writing must be beautiful and the article must be smooth. The shape is scattered but the spirit is not scattered. There must be a finishing touch at the end, highlighting the theme and reflecting the idea of this article. In fact, life is like wine, and articles are like tea. A successful good article is a good article as long as it can attract readers' attention. Although prose has its own unique laws and categories, who is not moved by it as long as it is written from the heart? The same is true of awkward sentences in ancient poetry. What is prose? Prose is the soul writing on paper! As one of the literary genres, famous prose, with the development of literature, its meaning and scope are constantly evolving. In ancient China, prose was called "prose" compared with verse and parallel prose, that is, all works, whether literary or non-literary, were called "prose". Modern prose refers to literary works other than poetry, drama and novel, including prose, essays, travel notes, biographies, memoirs and reportage. In recent years, biography, reportage and prose have developed into unique styles, so people tend to narrow the scope of prose. Prose refers to a literary genre that does not pay attention to rhythm, including essays, essays and travel notes. Prose is an overview of a literary genre. With the development of literature, its meaning and scope are constantly evolving. In ancient China, prose was called "prose" compared with verse and parallel prose, that is, all works, whether literary or non-literary, were called "prose". Modern prose refers to literary works other than poetry, drama and novel, including prose, essays, travel notes, biographies, memoirs and reportage. In recent years, biography, reportage and prose have developed into unique styles, so people tend to narrow the scope of prose. An overview of ancient and modern prose 1. Ancient prose: In ancient China, all prose articles, including classics, biographies and history books, were called prose in order to distinguish them from rhymes and parallel prose. The development of China's ancient prose: (1) Pre-Qin prose: including hundred schools of thought's prose and historical prose. Hundred schools of thought's essays are mainly expositions, such as The Analects of Confucius, Mencius and Zhuangzi. Historical prose mainly focuses on historical themes, and all articles and books describing historical events and historical figures are historical prose, such as Zuo Zhuan. (2) Prose in the Han Dynasty: Sima Qian's Historical Records in the Western Han Dynasty pushed biographical prose to an unprecedented peak. After the Eastern Han Dynasty, individual prose forms such as books, notes, inscriptions, essays and prefaces began to appear. Prose in Tang and Song Dynasties: Under the impetus of the ancient prose movement, prose writing became increasingly complex, and literary prose appeared, resulting in many excellent works such as landscape travel notes, fables, biographies and essays. And the famous "Eight Masters of Tang and Song Dynasties" also emerged at this time. (3) Prose in the Ming Dynasty: First, there were "Seven Scholars", mainly imitating ancient times. Later, in the Tang and Song Dynasties, all works were advocated to flow from the chest, the most famous of which was Gui Youguang. Qing dynasty prose: represented by Tongcheng school, Qing dynasty prose pays attention to the embodiment of "righteousness" Yao Nai, a representative writer of Tongcheng School, summed up the style of ancient Chinese prose and classified it into 13 categories, including argumentative essays, prefaces and postscripts, recitation, calligraphy, preface, imperial edict, biography, epitaph, miscellaneous words, ode, ci fu and mourning.