文類的演進是在各個時代的中心文類和邊緣文類的對話中完成的。在復古觀念守護下，詩、文作爲中國政教文學的中心文類久盛不衰，而賦、詞、小說、戲曲等新興文類因不符合宗法倫理意識形態所要求的審美標準而屢遭排斥，長期處於邊緣文類的地位。復古觀念大大延緩了古典文學向新的審美形態開拓的進程，遲滯了邊緣文類的成熟和發展。

The evolution of literary genres is a historical dialogue between mainstream genres and marginal genres. Influenced by the revival of ancient classics, the composition of the mainstream genres of traditional Chinese literature-poetry and prose-experienced a long-time prosperity, while the subsequently rising genres such as Fu, Ci, novel and ancient Chinese drama were criticized continuously for having not met the paradigm standard of mainstream genres and were kept to the status of marginal genres. The revival of ancient classics prolonged the process of the advance of traditional Chinese literature to new paradigms by cumbering the maturity of marginal genres.