1. Literature is a way and means to express the objective world and subjective knowledge by oral or written language. When writing is not only used for recording (history books, news reports, scientific papers, etc.). ), but it can only be called literary art if it is endowed with other thoughts and feelings and artistic beauty, and it belongs to language art. Poetry, prose, novels, dramatic novels, scripts, fables, fairy tales and other different genres are all important forms of literature. Literature expresses inner feelings in different forms, that is, genres, and reproduces social life in a certain period and region. As a discipline, it includes China language and literature, foreign language and literature and journalism and communication. Literature belongs to one of the humanities, and keeps pace with philosophy, religion, law and politics at the top of the social structure.

2. 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 documents are China's The Book of Songs, Indian Ramayana and ancient Greek Ilion Ji. 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. 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, novels, essays and plays.