报告文学这一名称在中国的出现虽然在 30年代 ,但这一文体在此之前就已产生。从文体传承的关系和历史的发展来看 ,这种文体因素最后成为一种具有真实性、新闻性、文学政论性特性的新的独立的文体形式 ,有一个很长的过程。我国古代纪实文学可以说是今日报告文学的历史渊源。古代的许多作品虽不能冠以报告文学的名称 ,但已具备了报告文学的某种形态 ,我们称之为报告形态。从报告形态到报告文学 ,经过了一个漫长的发展、演化过程 Although the emergence of the reportage in China was in the 1930s, this style has been produced before that. From the perspective of the relationship between literary and artistic inheritance and the development of history, this stylistic factor has finally become a new and independent style of literary form with authenticity, newsability and literary theory. It takes a very long time. Ancient Chinese factual literature can be regarded as the historical origin of today’s reportage. Although many of the ancient works can not be labeled with the title of reportage, they have acquired some form of reportage, which we call the report form. From the report form to reportage, after a long period of development and evolution