1, document (English: document), pronounced wén xiàn, Chinese words refer to books and materials with historical value or reference value; Listen to people who are familiar with their stories. Because of the persistence of these researchers, the Institute of Mathematics continues to order documents from all over the world.
2. The word "literature" first appeared in Eight Books of the Analects of Confucius, and Zhu's Notes on Four Books in the Southern Song Dynasty thought that "literature, ancient books and records are also; Dedicated, virtuous. " Therefore, the literature at this time refers to ancient books and articles, refers to the knowledge and remarks of ancient sages, as well as their familiar etiquette and their own experiences. There are also relevant quotations in Yu Xia and Yi Shu Collection, which shows that the original meaning of the word "Wen" refers to ancient books and sages.
3. In Song Dynasty, Ma Duanlin took literature and dedication as the basis of narration and discussion: "Literature" is a book of classics and history, with hundreds of biographies; "Dedication" is a record of courtiers' comments, Confucian comments, celebrity comments and officials' resignation. Under his influence, the understanding of documents is limited to general written records, and what cannot be expressed as written records cannot be called documents.
The application of literature
1. Literature is an important medium for people to acquire knowledge. Literature is the product of the development of human culture to a certain stage (when it has recordable content and recording tools and means), and it continues to develop with the progress of human civilization. The accumulation, summary, storage and improvement of society and knowledge of nature by human beings are mainly realized through the recording, sorting, dissemination and research of documents. Literature can make human knowledge break through the limitation of time and space and spread for a long time.
2. The content of the literature reflects the knowledge level of people in a certain social and historical stage; The existing forms of documents (such as recording means, writing materials, composition and communication methods, etc.). ) were influenced and restricted by the development level of social science, technology and culture at that time. For example, before the invention of paper, the ancients in China could only make records on Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bamboo slips and silk books; Before the invention of block printing, the ancients could only record documents by hand.