宋代由于社会政治经济等原因,使得市民阶层不断发展壮大,城市人口逐渐增多,先秦以来实行的坊市制度被打破,商品经济也随着繁荣起来,歌楼酒馆等娱乐产业随即遍布城市之中。为了满足市民阶层的审美需求,宋词和宋话本在宋代萌芽并且迅速发展。宋词和宋话本服务的对象是宋代不断壮大的市民阶层,其内容和语言上必然采用更容易被市民阶层所接受的市井生活和民间口语,以娱乐功能为主。由于中央集权的加强,上层士大夫有很多闲暇时间流连于市井场所,受到俗文学的影响,也开始倾向创作俗文学,俗文学获得前所未有的发展。宋代世俗文学思潮就此拉开帷幕并随之而崛起。 Due to the social, political and economic reasons, the Song dynasty made the public class continue to grow and develop. The population of the city increased gradually. The system of the Ban Fashi system practiced since the Qin dynasty was broken and the commodity economy also prospered. The entertainment industry such as the Song dynasty tavern immediately spread throughout the city. In order to meet the aesthetic needs of the public class, Song Ci and Song dialect budding in the Song Dynasty and rapid development. The object of Song and Song dynasties service is the ever-growing public class in Song Dynasty. Its content and language are bound to adopt the well-to-do life style and the popular oral style that are more easily accepted by the public class, with the entertainment function as the mainstay. Due to the strengthening of centralization, the scholar-officials in the upper strata have a lot of free time hanging around the marketplace and are influenced by the popular literature. They also tend to create popular literature and popularize the unprecedented development. So did the secular literature thought in the Song Dynasty.