Literary and artistic forms are divided into two categories:
1. Literary forms: novels, essays, poetry, reportage, scripts, folklore, fables, and notebook novels , fairy tales, couplets, philosophical words, poems, parallel prose, essays, literary criticism, and film scripts (mainly four categories: novels, poetry, prose, and scripts).
2. Art forms: writing, painting, sculpture, architecture, music, dance, drama, and film (main four categories: painting, sculpture, music, drama).
According to expression methods:
1. Language arts: drama, poetry, novels, prose.
2. Performing arts: music, dance.
3. Plastic arts: painting, sculpture.
4. Comprehensive arts: drama, opera, folk art, film, etc.
Literature and art (literature and art), which uses language, performance, modeling and other means to create typical images to reflect the consciousness of social life, belongs to social ideology. It includes language arts (poetry, prose, novels, drama literature), performing arts (music, dance), plastic arts (painting, calligraphy, sculpture) and comprehensive arts (drama, opera, folk art, film), etc. Literature is language art, and the broad concept of art includes literature.
Literature and art originated from human productive labor in ancient times. Labor promotes the development of human thinking and language, leads to the perfection of hands, and makes the production of literature and art possible. The labor chants produced by primitive people in concert with the rhythm of labor formed the original music and poetry. Cave wall paintings from the Upper Paleolithic depict running wild boars, mammoths and herds of deer, while Mesolithic rock paintings show crowds hunting goats with bows and arrows. All show that primitive art comes directly from productive labor and is the artistic reproduction of these activities.
Literary and artistic works as conceptual forms are the product of a certain social life reflected in the human mind. The rich mineral deposits of literary and artistic raw materials existing in human life are the only inexhaustible source of all literature and art. The need for literature and art in social life is the driving force for the development of literature and art. Literature and art originate from social life, and in turn affect social life, becoming the form of social consciousness that is most easily accepted by people and has the widest influence. Progressive literature and art play an important role in educating people, transforming people, and promoting the progress of history. The development of literature and art in a certain social and historical stage is one of the symbols of the development level of spiritual civilization in that era.