巴尔扎克说过,家庭是“各种社会的永恒基础”,易卜生说,“家庭是社会的核心”,人们还常说,家庭是社会的细胞,是人生的摇篮和舞台。不过,在东方和西方,家庭的概念是有较大区别的。东方的家庭小说描写的大都是大家庭的解体和衰落,西方的家庭小说则反映小家庭中夫妻子女关系的分裂和离异。近百年来,东方式的大家庭已基本瓦解,所以 Balzac said that the family is the “eternal foundation of all societies,” Ibsen said. “Families are the core of society.” People often say that families are the cells of society and the cradle and arena of life. However, in the East and West, the concept of a family is quite different. Most of the oriental family novels depict the dissolution and decline of the extended family, whereas the western family novels reflect the divorce and divorce of the husband-wife relationship in the small family. In the past century, the big family in the East has basically collapsed, so