季节在中国文学中一直扮演着重要角色,耳熟能详的名篇佳作,往往离不开对季节的描写。著名作家白先勇自幼受传统文化熏陶,深谙小说中季节描写的重要性,代表作《台北人》通过对季节的精心设置,为读者展现了一个日渐没落的台北人世界。在《台北人》诸篇中,季节设置通常有两种情况:一种是整篇小说大致统一于一个季节,以《岁除》、《思旧赋》、《梁父吟》、《秋思》、《满天里亮晶晶的星星》、《游园惊梦》、《冬夜》、《国葬》为代表;另一种则是一篇小说中出现多个季节,以 The seasons have always played an important role in Chinese literature. The well-known masterpieces are often inseparable from the seasons. Bai Xianyong, a famous writer, was influenced by traditional culture since he was young and well versed in the importance of the season description in the novel. The masterpiece “Taipei Man” shows the world of Taipei people, which is gradually declining, through careful setting of the season. There are usually two kinds of seasonal settings in the “Taiwanese” articles: one is that the whole novel is generally unified in one season, and the “New Year”, “Old Fa”, “Liang Yin” and “Autumn Thoughts” , “Sparkling stars in the sky”, “Garden Dream”, “Winter Night”, “state funeral” as the representative; the other is a novel appeared in more than one season to