Novel, poetry, prose and drama are also called "four major literary genres".
Methods of portraying characters in novels: psychological description, action description, language description, appearance description, expression description and profile description. At the same time, novel is a way of writing.
According to the performance content, it can be divided into myth, xian Xia, martial arts, science fiction, suspense, ancient biography, contemporary novels and so on. According to the system, it can be divided into chapter novels, diary novels, epistolary novels and autobiographical novels. According to language forms, it can be divided into classical Chinese novels and vernacular novels.