自从“一代有一代之文学”的说法成为我们的常识后,所谓唐诗、宋词、元曲、明清小说成了我们对中国古典文学“进化”序列的不二认知和对各个时代文学风貌的习惯性归类。如果拿这样的认识去和历史打打交道,就能觉察出它的局限来了。比如宋词,我们今天将它视作宋人的代表文体未必有错,但拿它作为主角来代表对宋代文学 Since the saying “generation has a generation of literature” became our common sense, so-called Tang poems, Song poems, Yuan songs and novels of Ming and Qing dynasties have become our only cognition of the “evolution” of Chinese classical literature and of all Habitual Classification of the Times Literature. If you take such a recognition to deal with history, you will be able to detect its limitations. Such as the Song Ci, we today as the representative of the Song style is not necessarily wrong, but take it as the protagonist to represent the literature of the Song Dynasty