The article discusses why Liu Xie's "Wen Xin Diao Long" does not talk about novels. It explains that in ancient China, novels were seen more as academic than literary works. Liu Xie's literary theory book focused on traditional ideas about novels as academic writing, not as a literary style. He didn't consider novels as a type of literature in his discussions. Only some of his writing skills matched the characteristics of novels at the time. This shows a gap between the theory of novels and their actual creation during that period.