鸳鸯蝴蝶派虽以言情小说著称于世,但这派作者写得最多的还是社会小说。在承袭晚清谴责小说、狭邪小说传统的基础上,民初的社会小说取材范围更为扩大。张恨水在为《广陵潮》改版写序言时说:“我们若肯研究三十年前的社会,在这里一定可以获得许多材料。”茅盾在晚年也曾经提到,要了解清末民初的社会历史,可以去看看《广陵潮》。《广陵潮》便是民初最著名的“社会小说”。《广陵 Although the Mandarin Duck butterfly fiction is known for romance novels, but this is the most written by the author of social novels. On the basis of inheriting the censure novels of late Qing dynasty and the tradition of narrow evil novels, the scope of drawing the social fiction of the early Republic of China expanded more. When he wrote a preface to the revision of “Guangling Tide”, Zhang Henshui said: “If we were to study the society thirty years ago, we would certainly have access to many materials here.” Mao Tun also mentioned in his later years that we should understand the Social history, you can go and see “Guang Ling Chao.” “Guang Ling Chao” is the most famous early “social novel ”. "Guangling