Literature and art, which use language, performance, modeling and other means to create typical images to reflect the consciousness of social life, belong 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.
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.