What's the difference between prose and other articles?

There are two concepts: broad sense and narrow sense. Prose in a broad sense refers to all articles that do not rhyme in ancient times. However, there was no such name as "prose" in ancient times; The name "Prose" came into being during the May 4th Movement. In modern times, prose in a broad sense includes all narrative, argumentative and lyrical styles except poetry, novel, drama and film and television literature. For example, Qin Mu said in "Generalized Prose Field" that "all short essays that do not belong to other literary genres but have literary flavor belong to the category of prose". In this way, there is a classification of lyric prose, narrative prose and argumentative prose. Prose in a narrow sense refers to lyric prose. This is because with the development of style, the communication characteristics, biographical literature and reportage in narrative prose have all developed into independent styles, each of which has become a category; Argumentative essay has a special name-prose, which is also separated from prose, leaving only lyric prose, that is, narrow 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!