休闲对话：中国文学的艺术形式

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

你知道中国文学中产生最早的艺术形式是什么吗?

Jerry: What is it?

是什么?

Tom: Should it be the poem?

应该是诗歌吧?

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

哦，我知道了，像《诗经》那种吧?

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

没错，《诗经》是最早的一部诗歌总集。

Jerry: While tangsong poetics count as the later ones.

唐诗，宋词，算是比较靠后的了吧?

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

是啊，到了近现代就是白话文了。

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

这个我记得，是从五四新文化运动开始的。