Novel is a literary genre that focuses on portraying characters and reflects social life through complete stories and environmental descriptions. The word "novel" comes from Zhuangzi Foreign Things.

Brief introduction to novels

Character, plot and environment are the three elements of a novel. The plot generally includes four parts: beginning, development, climax and ending, and some also include prologue and ending. Environment includes natural environment and social environment. Novels can be divided into novels, novellas, short stories and mini-novels (short stories) according to their length and capacity.

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.

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 writing method. Novel, poetry, prose and drama are also called "four major literary genres".