What style of Chinese classical literature has achieved the most?

Xie asked. The so-called "poetry after Tang poetry, ci poetry after Song decline" is obviously one-sided, which is based on the stereotype of "Tang poetry" and "Song ci poetry". "A Dream of Red Mansions" is also not a good saying, high literary achievement and the same thing. In terms of achievement, "literature is not the first", it is difficult to tell whether ancient Chinese poetry or literature is the highest achievement (but certainly not fiction). In ancient times, the style of novels was ignored, and the development was slow. Specifically, can you see the tradition that Chinese literature has poems as authentic and light novels? If so, how did it form and change? . Poetry has ancient, text has pian SAN; Poetry since the beginning of three hundred, there are "Shang Shu" and hundreds of; Du Fu wrote poems and Han Yu wrote essays. Poetry has Li Bai, text has Zhang Dai, all need not enumerate. But in terms of its status and influence on modern Chinese culture, I think it should be poetry. Nowadays, people regard "poetry" as a whole and confuse it, which is not desirable when discussing classical literature. The poem is called "poetry yu", which indicates both its origin and its status. Even Su Shi said ci filling is a "small skill" (" Drunk Weng Qin Qu Outside editor · Preface "), more people when the prime minister of their own youth to burn the ci so as not to affect the future (see "North Dream Suoyan" volume six), the song dynasty literator edited his collection also do not choose ci (but status and achievement can not be equal. And in addition to the song Dynasty, there are qing Ci xing). Such treatment is a far cry from poetry. Poetry from the earliest collection has been highly appraised, "The Analects of Confucius" said: xing in poetry, stand in ceremony, become in music. If you don't learn poetry, you can't speak. (Ji shi) Poetry can be raised, observed, grouped or complained. You of the father, far matter jun. He knows more about plants, trees, birds and animals. (Yang Goods) After the Confucian school, poetry became the best educational tool, that is, the "gentle and honest" "poetry teaching", which almost spanned the entire history of autocratic monarchy, such as the Tang dynasty of poetry to scholars, not to mention. Ordinary readers have the illusion that song poetry is not popular, because they have less contact and lack of education. In terms of quantity alone, the whole Song Poems compiled by Peking University at the end of last century collected more than 270,000 poems, more than five times as many as the whole Tang Poems. What is more important is that song poetry has formed a unique aesthetic style outside the peak of Tang poetry. As Miao Yue said: Tang poetry to rhyme, so hun ya, and your yun by ethereal; Song poems win by meaning, so fine energy, and your deep fold penetrating. Tang poetry in the beauty of the words, so rich; Song poetry beauty in qi Bone, so thin jin. (Poems And Prose Prose, Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House, 1982, p. 36) Tang and Song poetry are two paradigms of Chinese poetry (see Qian Zhongshu's Talk about Art Record · Poems in Tang and Song Dynasties for details). It is nonsense to talk about their decline. In Ming and Qing dynasties, there were many debates on the status of song poetry, but few people completely rejected the status of Song poetry. Although the Poetry of the Qing dynasty is not as successful as the poetry of the Song Dynasty, there are some poets who have a style of their own, such as Wu Weiye's Meicun style, and other outstanding poets such as Huang Jingren and Wang Shizhen. The prosperity of poetry runs through Chinese classical literature, but the development of the integration of text is not so smooth. Poetry is pure literature. Although it was used for other purposes in ancient times, it soon had its own context and had different feelings. However, wen is often labeled as "carrying tao", which often confuses the boundary between practical wen and literary wen. The poems used to select scholars are still poems, but whether the eight-part essay of the imperial examination can be classified as literature is still debatable. As far as personal preference is concerned, I love Zhang Dai much more than the eight tang and Song dynasties. Therefore, the achievement of the text itself cannot be equated with the status and theoretical consciousness. After the New culture Movement, the influence of ancient prose on us gradually decreased, and even tended to disappear. The rise of vernacular Chinese borrowed the grammatical framework of the Western language, so there is a European Chinese; Not to mention the influence of the grand discourse system 49 years later. Throughout the books, magazines, newspapers and periodicals around, there are many pure classical Chinese shadow? Poetry, thanks to basic education, still lives in our veins. Nowadays people cannot write much, but quote a few or ok. It is not difficult to find that poetry has a much greater influence on the cultivation of modern people's aesthetic appreciation and daily writing than prose. Among the many influences, the most important is the direct influence of poetry on new literature. Ancient poetry is the treasure being mined in the development of new poetry. Modern poets, such as Bian Zhilin, advocated "turning ancient" in their new poems. Contemporary poets such as Zhang Zao, who achieved great success, are more adept at drawing on classical poetry, such as He Rensi. To be, personally think the achievement of high regardless of poetry, but the status and influence, about to put poetry as the first.