陈一舟在《文学遗产》1991年第3期上发表同题文章认为,文学史乃是文学的历史,既然文学处在“有始无终”的历时性运动之中,它就必然有所演变有所发展,并且与生物进化史,社会发展史一样,在艺术的历程中呈现出进化的总趋势。正因此,发现演变的形式环节,追寻进化的轨迹脉络,也就成为文学史研究的任务之一。中国古代文学演变的基本方式是渐进式积累,表现为连续性的量 Chen Yizhou published the same article in the third issue of “Literary Heritage” in 1991. According to Chen, the history of literature is the history of literature. Since literature is under the “end-of-endless” diachronic movement, it inevitably has some evolution and Like the history of biological evolution and social development, it presents the general trend of evolution in the course of art. Therefore, finding the formal link of evolution and pursuing the trajectory of evolution has also become one of the tasks of studying the history of literature. The basic way of evolution of ancient Chinese literature is gradual accumulation, showing the amount of continuity