The definition of literary sketchbook is a novel style which recorded real life, described person, ghost and animal in brief words, is one kind of Chinese ancient novels in classical style. According to the topic and content of literary sketchbook, it has two categories: write about weird and biography. Literary sketchbook appeared earlier than many kinds of Chinese classical novel and it ran through the Chinese classical novel development, is a oldest and most basic novel style. This article is to base on combing a lot of historical sketchbook's order, notes and relevant remarks. It explains the style of literary sketchbook deeply and comprehensively, concluding and summarizing the theory criticism about the literary sketchbook. Especially, this article digs some theory categories: thought research in theory criticism of ancient Chinese literary sketchbook, research of category and title and research of writing skills. |