What are the two meanings of the concept of literature? What is the prevailing meaning of literature?

Two meanings of literature: the broad cultural meaning & the narrow aesthetic meaning.

Literature refers to all verbal or written language acts and works, including today's literature as well as political, philosophical, historical, religious and other general cultural forms. This is the cultural meaning of literature.

Literature refers to literary language and its works with aesthetic attributes, including poems, essays, novels and plays. Aesthetic meaning. This is the aesthetic property of literature.

The prevailing cultural meaning is the aesthetic meaning of literature.

Cultural meaning is the aesthetic meaning of literature.