Beautiful text: "French-Chinese Dictionary" translates it as "pure literature". The definition in "Larouse's Dictionary of Common Nouns" is: the general art of literature, rhetoric, and poetry.
Refers to works without practical purpose for intuitive appreciation. Writing with practical purpose, such as news, official documents, expositions, etc., can be collectively called essays. Beautiful essays emphasize sensibility and are good at expressing emotions; essays emphasize intellectuality and are good at conveying ideas. However, the two are not completely separable, because once essays are written, they can be appreciated as beautiful articles, and beautiful articles are often written for practical purposes.
Extended information:
Characteristics of beautiful writing:
Beautiful, lively and interesting. It is a model of modern language, art, and literary genres, and has relatively high aesthetic value. In the long-term network circulation process, it has irrigated the literary garden of various eras and irrigated literati of all ages, and it still benefits people today.
Literature expresses life and conveys thoughts and feelings. Generally speaking, novels, poems, and dramas have very strict requirements in terms of structure, rhythm, cutting, dialogue, etc. However, prose can be more free, and it seems that it is just expressing oneself inadvertently. The experiences and feelings expressed are mostly scattered fragments of life.
Example:
The ancient road is covered with green grass, and the mist and rain are confusing the long pavilion. Leaving in the beautiful scenery makes people feel like falling flowers and flowing water, beautiful and sad.
Let's go, quietly, hastily, on a morning with few people, facing the distance with tearful eyes, all the way forward.
Reference materials: Baidu Encyclopedia: Beautiful Articles