休閑對話：中國文學的藝術形式

Tom: What do you know is the earliest artistic form?

你知道中國文學中產生最早的藝術形式是什么嗎?

Jerry: What is it?

是什么?

Tom: Should it be the poem?

應該是詩歌吧?

Jerry: Oh, I see, something like the The Book of Songs?

哦，我知道了，像《詩經》那種吧?

Tom: Absolutely, The Book of Songs is one of the earliest anthologies of verse in china.

沒錯，《詩經》是最早的一部詩歌總集。

Jerry: While tangsong poetics count as the later ones.

唐詩，宋詞，算是比較靠后的了吧?

Tom: Yes, till modern history, modern vernacular Chinese is popular.

是啊，到了近現代就是白話文了。

Jerry: I remember that it began from the May fourth new culture movement.

這個我記得，是從五四新文化運動開始的。