Literature is the art of language, an important form of social culture and the embodiment of beauty. Literary works are works in which writers express their unique spiritual world with their unique language and art. Without such two unique characteristics, there will be no real literary works. An outstanding writer is the hero of a nation's spiritual world. Literature represents the art and wisdom of a nation.
Literature is a means of evaluating and recording advanced ideas on a time scale. It relies on personal feelings and experience to show a combination of time and space, and cognition, thinking, judgment and description of human state and destiny, and seeks the perfection of a kind of beauty within its scope. And the literature itself, should be responsible for the masses involved in its and the future readers. It is the author's duty to show the reader a meaningful framework by means of his/her inner perception and imagination.
It originated from human thinking activities. The first one is oral literature, which is generally connected with music to sing lyric poetry. The earliest written literature was composed of the book of songs in China, Ramayana in India, and eliony in ancient Greece. In the pre-Qin period of China, all works written in words were collectively referred to as literature. Only after the Wei and Jin Dynasties did literary works gradually be listed separately. According to the theoretical classification of European traditional literature, literature can be divided into three categories: poetry, prose and drama. Modern literature is usually divided into four categories: poetry, novel, prose and Drama (script).
Literature is a means of evaluating and recording advanced ideas on a time scale. It relies on personal feelings and experience to show a combination of time and space, and cognition, thinking, judgment and description of human state and destiny, and seeks the perfection of a kind of beauty within its scope.
We use the word lierature in a broad sense ,to mean compositions that tell stories,dramatize situations,express emotions,and analyze and advocate ideas and in a narrow sense,tomean compositions that well written that some aesthetic value is acquired.Still other critics add the test-of-time criterion to their essential components of literature.
It is a combination of time and space in which personal feelings and experiences show, so that the state, destiny of the person can be recognized, thought, judged and described, and seek the ultimate beauty in its scope.