China's modern literary criticism can be roughly divided into three categories.

1. On the Three Forms of China's Modern Literary Criticism;

(1) First of all, it is criticism involving creation. Critics embrace their works with experience, wisdom and enthusiasm, and activate the spirituality of creation through poetic communication of their criticism; It advances with creation, cultivates the growth of new scholars, promotes the development of literary schools, and embodies the "artistic concern" of criticism. Lu Xun, Li Jianwu, Hu Feng and others can be regarded as their representatives.

(2) The second criticism pursues independent spiritual and cultural values, focusing on explaining the philosophical, sociological, ethical, psychological and linguistic significance that may exist in the works. In order to expand the knowledge field of critics and meet the needs of self-criticism, it introduced and applied various western criticism methods, promoted the modern transformation of China's literary criticism, and embodied the "academic concern" of criticism, represented by Wang Guowei, Pan Guangdan, wu shichang and others.

(3) The third is criticism that serves social politics. In the era of rapid improvement of social contradictions and revolution, it has played an ideological critical role in literature, reflecting the "social care" of criticism, which is difficult to be criticized on the aesthetic level because it focuses on the extension of the social and political significance of the works.