Novel is a literary genre that focuses on portraying characters and reflects social life through complete story and environmental description.

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, ancient biography, contemporary 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.