叶圣陶曾说:“如果有人问起我的职业,我就告诉他,第一是编辑,第二是教员。”“作家不是我的职业。”的确,他是用业余的时间从事写作的。但他的一生和文学结下了不解之缘。如果把他“五四”前写的文言小说除外,那么他是在1918年2月发表《春燕琐谭》,1919年2月发表《这也是一个人?》(即《一生》),开始了长达六、七十年的新文学创作生涯。 Ye Shengtao once said: “If anyone asks me about my job, I tell him that the first is editing and the second is the teacher.” “The writer is not my job.” Indeed, he spent his spare time writing. But his life and literature have brought a bond of indissoluble bond. If he excluded the classical novels written by him before the May 4th Movement, he published “Chun Yan Suo Tan” in February 1918 and “Is this a man?” (Ie, “Life”) in February 1919, Up to six or seventy years of new literary career.