一外国文学作品最早出现在由洪北平、何仲英编纂，商务印书馆１９２０年出版的第一套中学白话文教材《白话文范》（四册）中，共有四篇：胡适译法国作家都德的小说《最后一课》，刘半农译英国诗人虎特的诗《缝衣曲》，耿济之译屠格涅夫的小说《航海》，托尔斯泰的小说《三问题? A foreign literary work first appeared in the first set of middle school vernacular textbooks in Mandarin Chinese (published in 1920) published by Hung Pei-ping and He Chung-ying, and published in four volumes: Hu Shi translated the French writer Dude’s novel " In the last lesson, Liu Bannong translated the English poet Hurt’s poem “The Song of the Seam”, the translation of Ruan Ji’s novel “Navigation” by Turgenev, Tolstoy’s novel “Three Questions?”