What are the types of literature?

There are three categories: oral literature, written literature and online literature.

Oral literature is a literary work passed down from mouth to mouth, and it is the main way of folk literature dissemination. Its contents can include poems, stories, etc. In folk oral literature, doggerel, folk songs and folk stories are the three categories with the largest number. For example, China's four folklores were slowly shaped by oral literature. There are also a lot of erotic stories and ghost stories in oral literature.

Written literature: written literature refers to literature written on paper with elegant language.

Network literature, that is, literary works published on the internet, has no clear boundaries. The characteristics of online literature are not limited to a medium, but more importantly, a writing feature and writing style formed by such a literary carrier in online communication, which is in line with the commercial value of today's online literary works.

If it belongs to the writing category contained in online literature, it is not spread on the Internet, but sold through physical channels, then it also has the essential characteristics of online literature. If we adhere to the objective bottom line of online literature, that is, the works written by people who don't know or touch the Internet and the works not published on the Internet by official people (or the written materials circulated by netizens) are generally not online literature in the form of communication, that's all.