The aim of this article is to study the problem of precedent text and to classify the main types of precedent phenomena in Uzbek literary texts. One of the main purposes of the article is to demonstrate how a precedent text functions in literary texts using an example of an artistic example. In various illustrations from different sources, it is stated that literary texts, folklore genres give different types of precedent phenomena to express the perception of a social group. An attempt is made to show how a precedent phenomenon in a literary text can reflect the social worldview of people of different cultures in order to comprehend a certain situation.