What does epic mean?

Epic refers to a long narrative poem that narrates heroic legends or major historical events.

Epic is a solemn literary genre, and its content is folklore or a long narrative poem praising heroic achievements. The topics it involves can include historical events, ethnic and religious legends. Epic refers to a long narrative poem that narrates heroic legends or major historical events. Based on ancient heroic songs, they are collectively composed and created, reflecting historical events or myths and legends of great significance in human childhood.

Epic is the earliest spiritual product of mankind, which is of great significance to our understanding of early human society. Epic has a natural connection with ancient myths and legends. Epic is produced on the basis of mythical world outlook, and its development is ultimately a denial of mythical thought.

The development of epic

As a genre, epic is the result of long-term development and evolution, and the development process of various epic traditions is very different. In the process of its formation and development, epic absorbed the nutrition of myths, legends, stories and other folk narrative literature, and even borrowed the achievements of lyric folk songs and other genres, forging its own unique theme content, artistic thinking mode and poetic system.

Although epic has the characteristics of organic synthesis to a certain extent, it can not be measured by the standards of any school, nor can it be measured by the standards of all these schools. It should be said that epic has digested various folk oral expressions, and the application of these forms is epic-oriented. In other words, from the perspective of literary types, epics represent language and artistic achievements that have been fully developed in a specific oral tradition and reached a higher stage.

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia -Epic for the above contents.