Originated from human thinking activities.
Literature originated from human thinking activities. Oral literature first appeared, usually combined with music to form lyric poems that can be sung. The earliest written documents are China's The Book of Songs, Indian Ramayana and ancient Greek Ilion Ji.
Classification method
The classification of European traditional literature theory divides literature into three categories: poetry, prose and drama. China's works written in words in the pre-Qin period were collectively referred to as literature, and literary works were listed separately only after Wei and Jin Dynasties. Modern literature is usually divided into four categories: poetry, novel, prose and drama.
artistic expression
Literature is the art of language and writing (literature is composed of language and writing, which opens up the realm of silence) and is an important manifestation of social culture.
Representing national art and wisdom
Literature represents the art and wisdom of a nation. Literature representing a nation can be divided into pure literature and lying literature according to its types. Among them, literary works that exclude the lies of ignorant people, such as political lies, moral lies, business lies, and lies that safeguard class power, are called pure literature, and vice versa.
Heroes in the national spiritual world
Literature refers to the works of language art in which writers express their unique spiritual world with unique language art. Without these two unique characteristics, there would be no real literary works. Therefore, an excellent writer is a hero of a national spiritual world. The more such heroes there are, the more colorful the literature and art of this nation will be, and the greater its influence on world literature will be.