What does "literature" mean? What are the classifications of literary works?

Literature is an art that uses language and words to intuitively reflect the objective reality and express the writer's inner world, including poetry, prose, novels, scripts, fables, fairy tales and other genres. It is an important literary form, which expresses inner feelings in different forms and reproduces social life in a certain period and region. As a discipline, literature includes China language and literature, foreign language and literature and journalism and communication.

According to the carrier, it can be divided into three categories: oral literature, written literature and online literature.

Divided into: foreign literature, China literature, etc.

According to the age of readers, it is divided into children's literature and adult literature.

According to readers' groups and contents, it can be divided into: serious literature and popular literature or popular literature, folk literature, minority literature and religious literature.

It is divided into historical biographical literature, documentary literature, fantasy literature and reportage.

According to the genre of expression, it can be divided into novels, essays, poems, reportage, new poems, dramas, operas, scripts, folklore, fables, note novels, unofficial history, fairy tales, couplets and jokes. Others, such as historical biography, philosophy, poetry, parallel prose, prose, literary criticism, computer games with text plot structure and animation.

Generalized information literature 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, novel, prose and drama.

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