1. Poetry is the earliest literary genre in China, which originated from the labor voice of primitive people and is a literary form with rhyme and singing. 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.
2. Novel is also a major literary style. By describing the complete story and the specific environment, we can create all kinds of characters and reflect social life in many ways. China's novels originated from ancient myths and legends, and experienced the development process of Six Dynasties, Tang legends, Song and Yuan scripts, Ming Hui novels and May 4th modern novels.
According to the length of the article, it can be divided into long stories, medium stories and short stories; According to different contents, it can be divided into social novels, fairy tales, historical novels, scientific novels and detective novels.
In ancient times, prose, including historical classics, was generally called prose. Modern prose refers to a literary genre on an equal footing with poetry, novels and plays.
4. Dramatic novels, also known as novel dramas, combine the elements of scripts and novels to make them like scripts and novels. It combines the free narration of the novel and the rigorous arrangement of the script, which complement each other, making the content of this literary genre not only highly free, but also rigorous, simple and clear, with a huge world outlook.
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Literature and art originated from the productive labor of ancient humans. Labor promotes the development of people's thinking and language, leads to the perfection of hands, and makes it possible to produce literature and art. The labor horn issued by primitive people with the rhythm of labor in cooperative labor formed the original music and poetry.
Cave paintings in the late Paleolithic period depict wild boar, mammoth and deer, while rock paintings in the Middle Stone Age show people chasing goats with bows and arrows. It shows that primitive art comes directly from productive labor, and these activities can be reproduced in art. Literary works, as an ideological form, are the products reflected by certain social life in people's minds.
The rich mineral deposits of literary and artistic raw materials in human life are the only inexhaustible source of all literature and art, and the demand for literature and art in social life is the driving force for the development of literature and art.
Literature and art come from social life, and in turn act on social life, becoming the most easily accepted and influential form of social consciousness. Progressive literature and art play an important role in educating, transforming and promoting historical progress. The development of literature and art in a certain social and historical stage is one of the signs of the development level of spiritual civilization in that era.
Literature and art interact and penetrate with other forms of social consciousness. Politics, law, morality, religion, philosophy and science influence literature and art and are included in literary and artistic works as ideological contents. Because literature and art can infect people with vivid images, it is often used as a tool to spread other forms of social consciousness.
In a class society, the author always understands, reflects and evaluates life from a certain class standpoint, and literary and artistic works also reflect the interests and aspirations of a certain class, which is bound to be class-colored. Members of different social classes will also have some aesthetic feelings and artistic hobbies because of their similar living conditions and national psychology.
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