This study demonstrates the importance of the content markup by executing the content markup on the literature articles in the newspaper. By exploring the definitions of metadata and the related regulations of several other markups, such as XML, NewsML, and TEI-Lite, this study aims to develop a tag set that is capable to mark the literature articles. The tag set will be based on the various features of the markup languages, the compositional structure of Chinese literature, and western rhetoric and story-telling techniques. The articles marked up with the tag set of the present study will be used in the Content Management System (CMS) developed by Dr. Chang Dong Meau of the Department of Library and Information Science at Hsuan Chuang University to demonstrate the effectiveness of the content markup. To verify the validity of the developed tag set to the other types of literature articles, the study applies the content mark up to the Fan Zhongyan's <Voyage of Yueyang Tower>, which is an literature article written in Sung Dynasty. Finally the study points out several potential deficiency of the tag set when applied to other types literature articles and outlines several directions for future research.