在编写文学史时,文学史的分期具有重要意义。一方面,它能为人们明确指出某一文学现象、文学作品所处的特定社会环境;另一方面,它又能揭示出整个民族文学发展中的必然规律。面对以口传文学为主的少数民族来说,文学史的分期不如依据文字考证的那么容易。那么,应该如何划分各自不同的文学时期呢?我觉得,文学史的分期不宜过细,应从各个民族自身历史发展的实际特点出发,提倡大跨度的分期(或称粗略分期)。提倡文学时期的粗略划分,首先是考虑到云南许多少数民族历史发展状况的实际特点。许多民族由于它们独自的社会条件所限,在其发展过程中, In the preparation of literary history, the staging of literary history is of great significance. On the one hand, it can clearly point out a certain literary phenomenon and the particular social environment in which literature works; on the other hand, it can reveal the inevitable laws in the development of national literature. In the face of ethnic minorities, which are mainly oral literature, the staging of literary history is not as easy as textual research. So, how should we separate the different literary periods? In my opinion, the staging of literary history should not be too fine. The starting point should be the actual characteristics of each nation’s own historical development, and promote long-term staging (or rough staging). To promote the rough division of the literature period, the first is to take into consideration the actual characteristics of the historical development of many ethnic minorities in Yunnan. Many ethnic groups, limited by their own social conditions, have, in the course of their development,