What are the four major literary genres?

The four major genres refer to four literary genres, including drama, fiction, essay, and poetry. They are the most common in literary creation.

Poetry is the ancestor of literature and the root of art. Poetry is a literary genre that expounds the mind, and poets need to master mature artistic skills and follow certain syllables, tones, and rhymes to express social life and the world of the human spirit in a highly concentrated way with condensed language, abundant emotions, and rich imagery.

Prose is a genre of literature and art in which words are the objects of creation and aesthetics.

Short, beautiful and vivid. Its history can be traced back to the oracle bones, and is a literary genre alongside poetry, drama, and fiction;

It includes political treatises, historical treatises, biographies, travelogues, epistles, diaries, sonnets, sketches, tables, prefaces, and other bodies of discourses and miscellaneous essays,? is a model of language and art literary genre, and has a high aesthetic value, in the process of long-term circulation, it watered the literary garden of all times, but also irrigated the generations of literati, and still make people benefit.

The novel is a literary genre in which the author artistically summarizes social life, depicts life events through the language of the narrator, shapes characters, develops the theme of the work, and expresses the author's thoughts and feelings, so as to artistically reflect and express social life.

Chinese drama is an important part of Chinese culture, and is called the national treasure. Because of China's vast territory, many nationalities, and different cultures, in addition to the Beijing Opera, a rich and colorful variety of local operas have been formed.

The most influential ones are Kunqu Opera, Pingju Opera, Cantonese Opera, Xiangju Opera, Yueju Opera, Yu Opera and Huangmei Opera. A more comprehensive understanding of Chinese drama from the origin, characteristics, art, development status and other aspects is conducive to the better inheritance and development of Chinese drama.

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The Four Major Literary Genres

①Poetry

Traditional poetry is a literary work with a rhythm. It expresses some strong emotion through imagination and lyricism. Poetry is the oldest form of literature. China is one of the most developed countries in the world in terms of poetry.

②Prose

It is a form of literature without strict rhyme and length limitations, as opposed to rhyme. Chinese prose has developed from the prose of the pre-Qin masters, and there have been masterpieces of prose for generations.

Historical prose and fugue, as well as the application of the style of the zhengliangwenxue, have had a profound impact on future generations. Since ancient times, China has been the most advanced country in the world in terms of prose.

③Drama

This is another ancient form of literature, which expresses the author's thoughts and feelings mainly through dialogues between different characters. Drama can be used for performances on the stage as well as reading.

4Novels

"Novels in the modern sense of the word in China started from the fables in the prose of the pre-Qin Dynasty, and matured through the notebooks of the late Han Dynasty and the Six Dynasties, and the Tang Legends and the Song Dialogues and the proposed Dialogues, and were then passed on to the long novels represented in the Four Great Wonders of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (after which the Golden Lotus Plums were replaced by Dream of the Red Mansions, which became the "Four Great Masterpieces"). ") represented by long stories and short stories represented by Liaozhai Zhiyi.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia - The Four Great Literary Genres