公案小说起源于中国,源于宋代的一种民间说唱艺术。从先秦两汉一些文献中的案例与史书中的“清官”传记中,可看出一些公案小说的端倪,可以说是公案小说的先导。到了宋代,民间说唱艺术盛极一时,刑事、民事案件激增,公案作品便大量产生,且种类繁多。可以说,宋代的公案作品是公案小说的早期。从明中叶到明末清初,出现了记载“清官”断案的长篇小说《包公案》、《海公案》、《三言两拍》等 Kung-fu’s novels originated in China and originated from a kind of folk rap art in the Song Dynasty. From some cases in the pre-Qin and Han Dynasties and the biographies of the Qing official in the history books, we can see that some of the novels of the court case can be taken as the forerunner of the novels of the court case. By the Song Dynasty, the art of folk rap once flourished. Criminal cases and civil cases surged. A large number of court cases were produced and a great variety of them were produced. It can be said that the court cases in the Song Dynasty were the early days of the court case novels. From the middle of the Ming Dynasty to the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, novels such as “Bao Gong Gong”, “Haigong Case”, “San Yan Bu Pai”