The inherent stipulation of the value orientation of literature is aesthetics. Literature has aesthetic ideology and grasps social life from the aesthetic relationship. With its pursuit, construction, revelation and expression of beauty, literature meets human aesthetic needs, enriches people's spiritual world and cultural life, and thus establishes the meaning and value of its own existence.
1． The aesthetic relationship between people and reality
What literature seeks, discovers and reveals from social life is the life situation and its connotative meaning and value stipulated by the aesthetic relationship. Both beauty and ugliness can become objects of literary expression, because it is in the struggle and confrontation between truth and falsehood, good and evil, beauty and ugliness that human value and the meaning of life are often more likely to be clearly and richly revealed. Artistic images that fully demonstrate the essence of ugliness, or that express ugliness to a level of spiritual resemblance, may also gain extremely high aesthetic value. Tragedy shows that ugliness temporarily overwhelms beauty, and it can also gain aesthetic significance by arousing people's pursuit and yearning for beauty. Therefore, judging the aesthetic value of a work does not depend on whether it is ugly, but depends on whether the writer can understand and grasp the aesthetic relationship.
2. Literature is the study of humanities
Firstly, literature takes human beings as its object, showing people's lives, expressing people's thoughts and feelings, and studying the human soul. Secondly, in terms of the aesthetics of literature, literature’s reflection of life has the characteristics of transcending life phenomena, expressing human values, and pursuing the meaning of life. This reflects the characteristic of literature grasping life in an aesthetic way.
3. Literary activities must be carried out in an object-oriented manner, which is a reflection of the aesthetic nature of the literary activity process. While the aesthetic attributes of literature require that literary activities must be personalized, they also stipulate that individual feelings and discoveries can only be based on social practice and human creation.
(Objectification helps writers shape artistic images, select themes, and grasp life as a whole)