《型世言》是20世纪90年代发现的一部湮没数百年的明代短篇小说集。其发现,对于中国古代话本小说的研究意义重大。但与“三言二拍”相比,《型世言》具有明显的回归伦理的内容转型特点,这与社会转型期的晚明时代中,中国知识分子的社会关切意向不无密切关系。 “Type Saints” is a collection of short stories in the Ming Dynasty discovered in the 1990s and obliterated for centuries. Its discovery is of great significance to the study of ancient Chinese storytelling novels. However, compared with “San Yan Er Pai ”, “Xing Shi Yan” has obvious characteristics of content transformation of returning to ethics. This is closely related to the social concern of Chinese intellectuals during the late Ming period in the period of social transition .