林纾是中国近代史上比较复杂的历史人物,他兼文学家、翻译家和理学家于一身。在文学创作中他自觉地将理学思维渗透于文学作品中,使之打上了深深的理学烙印,所以以理为本是林纾文学的价值内核,《巢香》等传记小说就是这方面的典型之作。林纾引领的近代理学化文学既有它积极的一面,也有它消极的一面。积极之处是它弘扬了传统的理学文化;消极之处是它阻滞了学术性文学的自由发展空间。 Lin Shu is a rather complicated historical figure in modern Chinese history. He is a writer, translator and a scientist. In literary creation, he consciously infiltrates his thinking in science into literary works, marking it with a deep Neolithic imprint. Therefore, reason-based theory is the value core of Lin Shu’s literature, and biographical novels such as “Chao Xiang” Typical. The modern science literature led by Lin Shu has both positive and negative aspects. The positive is that it promotes the traditional Neo-Confucian culture; the negative is that it blocks the free space for the development of academic literature.