吴敬梓长期流寓南京,创作了许多富有地域特色的诗词作品,《儒林外史》也以较大的篇幅描写了金陵的风物,但有清一代,各种南京地方志均未将他收入《流寓志》。可能的原因包括作家本人功名不显,文坛声望又不够高,加之在时人眼中,他对南京政事与文化的贡献非常“有限”。同时代的袁枚则在各方面符合所谓“寓贤”的标准,从而成为《流寓志》记载的重要人物。作为著名的白话小说作家,吴敬梓未入南京《流寓志》,折射出晚清以前,白话小说自身的文体地位和作家的社会地位,均没有获得根本性的提升。 Wu Jingzi lived in Nanjing for a long time and created many poems and works full of regional characteristics. The Scholars also described the landscape of Jinling with a larger space, but none of the local chronicles in Nanjing recorded him as “ Chi. ” Possible reasons include the lack of fame of the writer himself, the low prestige of the literary world, and the limited “contribution” his contribution to the political affairs and culture in Nanjing. At the same time, Yuan Mei conformed to the so-called “virtuous” standard in all aspects, and thus became the important person recorded in the “Legend of the Stream.” As a famous vernacular novelist, Wu Jingzi did not go to Nanjing to explain the style and style of his hometown, which reflected that his literary status and the writer’s social status before the late Qing dynasty were not fundamentally improved.