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。