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。


