1. Literature is an art that uses language and words to reflect the objective reality and express the writer's inner world, including poems, essays, novels, plays, fables, fairy tales and other genres. It is an important literary form, which expresses inner feelings in different forms and reproduces social life in a certain period and region. As a discipline, literature includes language and literature, foreign language and literature and journalism and communication.
2. Literature is one of the disciplines belonging to the humanities, which keeps pace with philosophy, religion, law and politics on the upper floor of social buildings. It originated from human thinking activities. Oral literature first appeared, usually combined with music to form lyric poems that can be sung. The earliest written literature is The Book of Songs, Ramayana in India and Ilion Ji in ancient Greece.
3. All works written in words in the pre-Qin period were collectively referred to as literature, and literary works were gradually listed separately after Wei and Jin Dynasties. The classification of European traditional literature theory divides literature into three categories: poetry, prose and drama. Modern literature is usually divided into four categories: poetry, novel, prose and drama.
All books and documents written in words are collectively called literature. Modernity refers to the art of using language to shape images, reflect social life and express thoughts and feelings, so it is also a language art. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, literature was divided into two categories: verse and prose. Modern literature is usually divided into poetry, prose, novel, drama, film and television literature and other genres. Various schools have various styles.