“大西南”这个概念首次被提出大约是在1939年,是一个与抗日战争相关的军事地理意义上的概念,之后在“解放大西南”时期被固定下来。再之后,大西南主要是一个经济圈意义上的概念。作为一个文化概念,出现在20世纪80年代之后。中国古代以“西南夷”称呼这个区域,中原文化对其文化特征的想象与概括是“虫文化”。“虫文化”的主要特征是内敛、无争、悠闲,是中华文化的一个重要组成部分。随着文化交融的不断加深,大西南文学的独特文化特征已经很不明显,但是其精神内核还是相对清楚的,如何提炼这一精神内核,已经成为一个紧迫的任务。 The concept of “Great Southwest” was first proposed about 1939, a concept of military geography related to the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and was later fixed during the “Liberation of the Southwest”. Later, the Southwest was mainly a concept in the economic circle. As a cultural concept, appeared after the 1980s. In ancient China, this area was called “Southwest Yi”. The culture of the Central Plains is imagined and summarized by its “culture of insects”. “Insect culture ” is characterized by restraint, no contempt, leisure, is an important part of Chinese culture. With the continuous deepening of cultural blending, the unique cultural features of the Southwest Literature have been very insignificant, but its spiritual core is still relatively clear. How to refine this spiritual core has become an urgent task.