在清末民初的一段时期里，一个现在看来不无奇特的文学现象是，小说突然取代诗文而成为最重要的文类———这多半归因于一九○二年梁启超在日本首倡“小说界革命”并创办《新小说》杂志，而“小说”这一概念在当时几乎是一座空中楼阁。正如梁启超在他那篇著名的文章《论小说与? During the period from the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic to the present, a literary phenomenon that now appears to be no strange is that the novel suddenly replaced poetry and became the most important genre - most of which was attributed to Liang’s first advocacy in Japan in 1902 “Revolutionary Novel” and founded “New Fiction” magazine, while the concept of “novel” was almost an atrium at that time. As Liang Qichao wrote in his famous essay “On Novel?”