1922年2月15日张资平的《冲积期化石》由上海泰东书局出版(创造社丛书第四种)。这是中国现代文学史上第一部白话长篇小说。篇末附《篇后致读者诸君》,告知这是著者的长篇处女作,无论好坏,希望读者不吝批评。朱自清在1922年3月26日致俞平伯的信中说:“《冲积期化石》结构散漫,叙次亦无深强的印象,似不足称佳作。”(见《朱自清全集》第11卷,江苏教育出版社1998年3月版,第120页) February 15, 1922 Zhang Zhiping’s “alluvial fossils” published by the Shanghai Taidong Bookstore (Creation Society Series No. 4). This is the first vernacular novel in the history of modern Chinese literature. At the end of the article attached to the “reader after all,” tell the author is a long debut, good or bad, hope readers criticism. Zhu Ziqing wrote to Yu Pingbo in a letter dated March 26, 1922: “The alluvial fossils are scattered in structure and there is no deep impression in the narration, which seems to be less than a masterpiece.” “(See” The Complete Works of Zhu Ziqing "Volume 11 , Jiangsu Education Press, March 1998 edition, p. 120)