“土匪”这一文学概念可以上溯至战国时期,历史渊源悠久,文学含义和政治含义均十分丰富,“土匪”们的地位也始终随着政治的浮沉而变化着。“土匪”在中华文明前进的历史中从来就不曾远离过,如同文明社会的痼疾与之共生,直到现代民族国家和人民民主政权的建立与最终巩固,才逐渐退出了历史舞台,消失在并不久远的历史中。土匪虽在现实中消失了,却在另一个领域里浴火重生,那就是文学。在中国现当代文学中,土匪叙事丰富而驳杂,在从徐玉诺、艾芜到莫言、贾平凹等人近百年的土匪叙事谱系中,究竟隐藏了写作者怎样的文学想 The literary concept of “bandit” can be traced back to the Warring States Period. It has a long history and rich literary and political meanings. The position of “bandit” has also always changed with political ups and downs. The “bandits” never walked away in the history of the advance of Chinese civilization, just as the symbiosis between civilizations and the civilized society did not gradually withdraw from the stage of history until the establishment and ultimate consolidation of the democratic state in the modern nation-state and the people. Not long ago in history. Although the bandits disappeared in reality, they were born again in another area, that is literature. In Chinese modern and contemporary literature, the narrative of banditry is rich and miscellaneous. In the spectrum of bandit narration from Xu Yu Nuo, Ai Wu, Mo Yan and Jia Pingwa for nearly a hundred years, what kind of literary thoughts