Basic characteristics of oriental literature

Has a long history and brilliant achievements. Ancient oriental literature is the earliest birthplace of world literature, and has made great achievements in ancient Egyptian literature, Babylonian literature, ancient Indian literature and ancient China literature. The Book of Death in Egypt is the oldest written literary work in the world. The Forgotten is an outstanding representative of ancient Babylonian literature and the earliest epic in known world literature. India's Mahabharata is considered to be the longest epic in the world. Ancient oriental literature is developed on the basis of folk oral creation, which has precious historical document value. For example, the story of ancient Egypt, five books of India, Arabian nights. The writer's creation is influenced by the people's oral creation to varying degrees. The origin is multi-source, and the main cultural origins are Egyptian, Indian, Babylonian, Hebrew and China. The diversity of oriental culture determines the diversity of oriental literature. Literary exchanges are very close. Japanese literary works, for example, are deeply influenced by Confucianism and Zen Buddhism in China, revealing moral meanings such as loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, kindness and sadness in a subtle and euphemistic way. North Korea's novels of "exhorting the good and punishing the evil" with the theme of moral exhortation generally take the three cardinal principles and the five permanents as ethical principles. Closely related to religion. The ideology, belief worship and moral norms of the eastern religious value system have great infiltration and dominance on the eastern literature and art. The Vedas is a collection of ancient Indian literary works and religious poems, and is regarded as the fundamental classic of Vedas, Brahmanism and Hinduism.