1. Describe real life objectively and truly: Realistic literature emphasizes the true reflection of real life, and requires literature to choose typical events from real life and write the true face of life according to the actual face of life.
2. Pay attention to reflecting real life: Realistic literature is different from romanticism in expressing the ideal of life in grasping the integrity of life. Realistic literature usually does not make a high artistic summary of life, but reproduces life according to its true colors.
3. Criticism, exposure and improvement: Realistic literature inherits the spirit of criticism, exposure and improvement of Enlightenment literature.