What are the characteristics of Chinese literature?

I. The Chinese language and script play a great role in the formation and construction of Chinese literature:

1. It is easy to arouse specific intentional images.

2. Hanzi is generally a single text with a single meaning and a single word, which makes the syllabic changes in Chinese poetry have a unique set of strict meter and constitute a neat and symmetrical formal beauty in appearance.

3. The Chinese language has four tones, and poets take advantage of this feature of the Chinese language to pay attention to the arrangement of the sound of the words when they write poems, and thus poems in close proximity to the body of poetry (pentameter poems, stanzas, seven-line stanzas, and stanzas), words, and prose compositions came into being.

4. As a special written language, the literary language could be separated from the daily language for a long time and maintain the status of the official language, which led to the phenomenon that literature operated on two different tracks, the literary language and the vernacular, and there was a great phenomenal difference in the content and the form of literature.

Second, a unique literary conceptual system.

This conceptual system is dominated by the traditional Chinese system of thought, which originated in the Confucian school founded by Confucius.

One of them is "Cultivate one's own body, align one's family, rule the country, and pacify the world" (Li Ji. University") as the core of the world;

Secondly, the moral concept of "benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and trust" as the standard;

Thirdly, the ethical concept of "heaven, earth, ruler, relatives and teachers" as the order;

Fourthly. Thirdly, the ethical concept of the order of "heaven, earth, ruler, parent and teacher"; and fourthly, the middle-of-the-road philosophy, which is governed by the principle of "allowing the center of the world to be the center of the world" (Analects).

Thirdly, in the history of Chinese thought, the ideological systems of Confucianism and Taoism complemented each other, and the three schools of thought, Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism, often merged. Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism have different and opposing sides and give different aspects of Chinese literature respectively.

In the Chinese literati, the ideas of being positive and avoiding the world are intertwined, and they are mutually reinforcing. This phenomenon is clearly manifested in literary works.