1, the difference of definition:
Essays are literary papers that directly and quickly reflect social events or trends.
Its characteristics are "miscellaneous and literary", short, sharp and eternal, full of the color of literary and art workers and the language of poetry, with unique artistic appeal.
Prose is a flexible and concise literary genre, in which the author writes down his true feelings and experiences.
The word "prose" probably appeared in the period of Taiping and Xingguo in the Northern Song Dynasty (976 1 February1Japan -9841month).
2. Differences in characteristics:
Essays are combative, giving immediate response or resistance to "harmful things" and are "sensitive nerves" and "hands and feet of attack and defense"; Essays are pleasant, which makes readers say goodbye to the past happily in laughter and get the spiritual enjoyment of beauty.
Fighting brings happiness.
Although it says "one nose, one mouthful and one hair", its "image" is palpable; Reading them together, not only a certain image is more vivid, but also the "eyebrows of the times" can be seen from it.
"God will not leave"? Mainly from the conception of prose, that is, the theme to be expressed in prose must be clear and concentrated, no matter how extensive the content of prose is and how flexible the expression is, it serves to better express the theme.
3, the difference between the format content:
Prose has no fixed format, but it is written casually.
But most writers can't write at will, because this article is difficult to control, that is, it is difficult to take back at will.
Therefore, contemporary magazine prose gradually has the structural form of the article, which is clever and has changed a lot, especially in language, without formatting.
Composition needs a lot of information, and you can't write a good composition without information.
Essay writers should dabble in politics, economy, society, history, ethics and morality, and be familiar with all kinds of news.
Interested in writing prose, especially sensitive to news, paying special attention to extending thinking ability and reverse thinking ability.
Extended data:
The origin of prose and essays;
1, the origin of Essays;
Liu Xie, a literary theorist in the Southern Dynasties (Liang Dynasty), was the first person in the history of China literature to put forward the concept of "essays" as an independent style.
He wrote a chapter "Essays" in Wen Xin Diao Long.
On the one hand, he summed up the creation of previous essays and named it "Essays". On the other hand, he listed three types of prose since Qin and Han Dynasties, among which Song Yu's Answer to the King of Chu, Mei Cheng's Seven Hair and Yang Xiong's Julian are the earliest representative works.
But in fact, as early as the rise of pre-Qin prose, essays have also appeared.
Qin Baijia's articles are actually essays.
Later, the essay had a new development.
Han Yu's essays in the Tang Dynasty, Liu Zongyuan's essays on tung leaves, Pi Rixiu's essays in the late Tang Dynasty, Lu Guimeng's essays in Luo Yin's essays, and Liu Ji's Poems on Orange Juice in the Ming Dynasty are all famous masterpieces.
Essays not only have the earliest origin, but also have a high status from the beginning.
As Ban Gu said: "The sage flows, and it is built from the official.
Both Confucianism and Mohism have the same name and the same law. I know that the country has this. I think Wang is not inconsistent and has advantages over him. "Visible, essays for the role of society at that time.
After the May 4th Movement, many revolutionaries, thinkers and writers have written excellent essays.
One of the most outstanding is Lu Xun, who is a master of creating a new style of essays.
He said: "When the wind and sand blow, wolves and tigers flock", and the sketch is "Daggers and spears should be sharp and practical", which is "something that fights our way out for survival with readers"; It is also "to react or confront harmful things immediately, to be the nerve of induction, and to be the hand and foot of attack and defense." This will accurately explain the role of modern prose.
On one kind of prose: prose.
It is a literary newspaper that directly and quickly reflects social events or social tendencies.
Characterized by short, lively and sharp.
It has a wide range of contents and various forms.
Miscellaneous feelings, rambling, essays and essays about social life, cultural thoughts and political events can all be classified into this category.
2. The origin of "prose":
Since the Six Dynasties in China, in order to distinguish verse from parallel prose, all prose articles (including historical classics) that do not rhyme or rearrange even order are collectively called "prose".
Then it refers to all literary genres except poetry.
With the development of the times, the concept of prose has changed from broad to narrow, and it has been influenced by western culture.