First of all, the difference

1, different definitions

Literature refers to the art of using language to vividly reflect the objective reality, including drama, poetry, novels, essays and so on. It is an important manifestation of culture, which expresses inner feelings in different forms (called genres) and reproduces social life in a certain period and region.

History is an objective fact and there is only one truth. History, or simply history, refers to the systematic recording, interpretation and study of past events and behaviors of human society. History can provide modern people with an understanding of the past and serve as a reference for future actions. Together with ethics, philosophy and art, it is an important achievement of human spiritual civilization.

2. Different expressions

Literature originated from human productive labor, and the earliest literature is oral literature, which is usually combined with music to form lyric poems that can be sung. The earliest written documents are China's The Book of Songs, Indian Ramayana and ancient Greek Ilion Ji.

The classification of European traditional literature theory divides literature into three categories: poetry, prose and drama. China's works written in words in the pre-Qin period were collectively referred to as literature, and literary works were listed separately only after Wei and Jin Dynasties. Modern literature is usually divided into four categories: poetry, novel, prose and drama. ?

Literature is a subject that expresses social life and psychological activities by words and characters. It belongs to the artistic category of social ideology. Literature is the art of language and an important expression of social culture. ?

History is the record and study of past events, also known as "historiography" or "historiography" for short. Subjects belonging to or closely related to history include chronology, compilation, genealogy, ancient philology, econometric history, archaeology, sociology and journalism. Look at history.

People who record and study history are called historians, or simply "historians". In ancient China, they were called historians. Books that record history are called historical books, such as Historical Records and Hanshu, which can be roughly divided into two categories: official revision and folk publication.

"History" in a broad sense can refer to all the events that happened in the past, not necessarily related to human society. In philosophy, history in this sense is called historical ontology, such as the history of the universe, the history of the earth, the history of birds and so on.

The narrow sense of history must be based on written records, that is, the history after the appearance of words is considered history, and the history before that is called prehistory. History related to human society can also be called human history or social history, while past events divorced from human society are called natural history.

Second, contact

History is a real historical event, and literature is different from history. Literature originates from history and is also a fictional part. At the same time, the influence of the author's own emotional factors and the author's values will change history to varying degrees and make literature more emotional. Through the processing of literature, history has been spread more widely, and at the same time, history has given more sources of inspiration to literary creation.

Extended data

History itself is very literary, because there are many literary mysteries hidden in history. History is a gobbledygook, which contains the mystery of cause and effect and philosophy, and will never change because of the writer's personal emotions and values. People often say, "Life is more exciting than novels." Life is the history that is happening.

Literature has two functions: the first function is dreaming, that is, the writer creates a dream through fiction. Another function is just the opposite, not dreaming, but expressing these facts more deeply and vividly in literature after careful observation and understanding.

Balzac said: "Fiction is the secret history of a nation." It's about the relationship between literature and history. This happens to be the relationship between Romance of the Three Kingdoms and History of the Three Kingdoms. In fact, the romance of the Three Kingdoms and the annals of the Three Kingdoms are in the same strain, and values and historical facts are not contradictory.

The biggest difference between them is that The Romance of the Three Kingdoms uses many interesting literary techniques to express the historical facts recorded in The History of the Three Kingdoms. In this sense, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is actually a historical book, and its historical value can complement the History of the Three Kingdoms.

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