More detailed literary genres can be found, for example, in the classification of the Wenxuan collection and that of the literature critique Wenxin diaolong. baihua 白話 "plain language", 1) a movement during late Qing/Republic (baihua yundong 白話運動) to use everyday language instead of classical language wen yan, 2) modern everyday language beiming 碑銘 inscriptions into stone tablets or stelae biji 筆記 "brush record" essays, a literary prose style popular from Song time on chuanqi 傳奇 "transmission of strange things", stories of supernatural events and ghosts ci 詞, a musical poetry style, contrafactury to an already existing melody, very popular during Song dynasty (see Song ci poems) biannianti 編年體, chronological or annalistic type of historiography bianwen 變文 cihua 詞話 "talks about poems", a type of loose commentary to authors and their poems congshu 叢書 "thicket books", collections of a books (collectanea) often from a particular thematical sphere, as a comprehensive or an anthological composition difangzhi 地方誌/志, so-called gazetteers, geographical histories of particular areas which were recompiled in irregular intervals. Precursor of newspapers. fanglüe 方略, military annals of the Qing period fu 賦, rhapsody or prose-poetry, a lengthy type of throne offering poetry popular during Han (see fu rhapsody) guwen 古文 "old literature", 1) Confucian classics claimed to be older than the early Han time jin wen texts, 2) a simple prose style revived during the Tang period in order to end the manieristic parallelism of the pian wen "paired-word" texts guaiji 怪記, also called zhiguai 志怪 "reports of strange events", a kind of story or proto-novel very popular in each type of literature and through the ages huaben 話本 "narrative version", an early form of novels, based on a lengthy story that was told to the auditory in day-to-day sequences. Some of the huaben stories are direct precursors of the great novels. jizhuanti 紀傳體, the biographic-thematic type of historiography jinwen 今文 "modern texts", Confucian Classics that had survived the alleged literary inquisition during the Qin dynasty and were in use during early Han period jinwen 金文 "inscriptions in metal", inscriptions in Shang and Zhou period ritual bronze vessels and on various metal objects of the Warring States, Qin and Han periods juan 卷 "scroll", a chapter-like unit traditional books pianwen 駢文 "couplet texts", rhythmic prose-poetry in a very subtle and even manieristic style popular during period of the Southern and Northern dynasties (see Yutai xinyong) pinghua 平話 qijuzhu 起居注 "imperial diaries", daily inofficial court protocols qu 曲 "airs" a musical poetry style, often also translated as "aria", as part of Yuan dramas, but also written separately as san qu 散曲 "concert arias" (see Yuan qu poetry) quanji 全集 "collected works" of one person, in contrast to xuanji 選集 "selected works" sanwen 散文 "loose literature", is prose literature shi 詩, a very popular poetry style with equally long verses and with rhymes, in use from oldest times (Shijing) and the Han period (as gushi 古詩 "old-style poems": see Gushi shijiu shou 古詩十九首), and revived during the Tang period as lüshi 律詩 "regular poems" (see Tang shi poems), and the shorter style jieju 絕句 "abridged sentences" shilu 實錄 "veritable records", official imperial chronicles wenyan 文言, classical language basing on pre-Han and Han time Chinese, official language for documents until early Republican period, and to a certain extant also for modern written Chinese xiaoshuo 小說 "novel" or "romance". Chinese scholars discern the two types of short novels (duanpian xiaoshuo 短篇小説) and the classical long novel books (changpian xiaoshuo 長篇小説) yuefu 樂府, allegedly poems from among the people, colleted by the Han period Bureau of Music, written in an elegic style and popular into the Tang period zhiguai 志怪 "reports of strange events", a kind of story or proto-novel very popular in each type of literature and through the ages