本论的问题意识为争辩一个世纪之久的“汉语史诗问题”①所引发,笔者所欲证明的最终论点是史诗从上古时代起之未在汉语区流传,根本原因是汉语区域缺乏让史诗流传发育的“口述传统”;汉语史诗不是失传、消散,而是根本不曾存在过。这与欧洲乃至中国非汉语区的情形有很大差 The question consciousness of this thesis argues for a century-long history of “epic Chinese issues”. The ultimate argument I want to prove is that epic poetry has not been circulating in Chinese since the ancient times. The fundamental reason is that the lack of Epic spread developed “oral tradition”; Chinese epic is not lost, dissipated, but simply never existed. This is not the case with Europe and even non-Chinese in China is very different