Why is ancient Chinese literature an important part of traditional Chinese culture?

Traditional Chinese culture includes many aspects. For example, folklore, festivals, rituals, food, etc. Literature is an important vehicle for recording and enriching these. Literature is an important carrier to record and enrich these contents, and at the same time, it is also constantly enriched and developed, because of all kinds of literature, we can get a glimpse of the life of the ancients after thousands of years, the ancients of the mind, so, without the ancient Chinese literature, the traditional Chinese culture is crippled.