The first kind: myth
It is a literary style that reflects ancient people's original understanding of natural phenomena, the origin of the world and social life. There are many ancient myths in China, such as Jingwei filling the sea, a snail filling the sky and killing in nine days. Many myths have been preserved in Shan Hai Jing, Huai Nan Zi and other works.
The second kind: fable
It is a genre of literary works and a short story with irony. The structure is simple, the main role can be human, and it can also be personification of living or inanimate objects, which implies a truth in a simple story. China has many famous fables, such as Waiting for the Rabbit, Contradiction, Encouraging the Seedlings and so on. And there are Aesop's fables and Korilov's fables abroad.
The third kind: folk stories
It refers to a kind of language art that is created orally by the masses, passed down from mouth to mouth and loved by the masses. In the process of circulation, it has been revised and processed by the masses. Such as legends, folk songs and proverbs. , all belong to folk literature.
The fourth kind: prose
It is a kind of prose and a kind of literary paper that directly and quickly reflects social events or social ideological tendencies. Mainly based on discussion, with narrative or lyric, with a wide range of content. All kinds of mixed feelings and ramblings about social life, political events and cultural trends can be classified as essays.
The fifth kind: folk songs
It is a kind of folk literature, a kind of poetry created orally by working people, and has a strong flavor of life. Lively in form, vivid in image and fresh in language, it generally expresses the wishes and ideals of working people, and has strong reality and militancy.
The sixth kind: poetry
It is the earliest literary form, which was first integrated with music and dance, and then gradually separated. Poetry can be divided into lyric poetry and narrative poetry according to its content and nature. According to the different language formats, it can be divided into metrical poems, free poems and ballad poems.
The seventh kind: prose poetry
It is a poetic style that appeared after the May 4th Movement, and it has the characteristics of both prose and poetry. It expresses the content of poetry in the form of prose, without verse or rhyme, and does not require a distinct rhythm. Ordinary people do not describe events, but express their unique feelings about a certain segment of social life, such as Lu Xun's Wild Grass and Gorky's Haiyan.
The eighth kind: novels
It is a major category of literature, which reflects life extensively, meticulously and in many ways by describing characters, stories and specific environments. No literary form can compare with novels in adapting to a wide and complicated social life.