在目前的高等学校和文学研究机构里,对古典文学进行分段研究和教学,是我们最熟悉的一种方式。有的分成先秦两汉、魏晋南北朝、唐宋、元明清四段,有的分成先秦、两汉魏晋南北朝、隋唐五代、宋元、明清五段,等等。分段研究和教学的最大好处,是推动断代的古典文学研究越来越细,越来越深入,一本本大部头的断代文学史愈出愈多,一册册关于某一作家作品的专题论著也越写越厚,近百年来的古典文学研究,没有比目前更繁荣的局面了,这无疑是令我们欢欣鼓舞的。但分段过细也给古典文学研究带来一些重大弊端。其中最主要的,就是使当前的大多数古典文学研究者或者缺少某些连贯的 In the present institutions of higher learning and literary research institutions, it is one of the most familiar ways for us to study and teach classical literature in different stages. Some were divided into Pre-Qin and Han Dynasties, Wei, Jin, Northern and Southern Dynasties, Tang and Song Dynasties, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, and some were divided into Pre-Qin, Han, Wei, Jin, Northern and Southern Dynasties, Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties, Song and Yuan Dynasties, Ming and Qing Dynasties, and so on. The greatest benefit of sub-research and teaching is to promote the study of classical literature of the dynasties getting smaller and deeper and deeper and deeper. A large part of the history of the dynastic literature has grown more and more. A book on the subject of a writer’s work The more writing and thicker the treatise, the more classical literature research in the past century has not been more prosperous than it is now. This undoubtedly makes us rejoice. However, the subdivision of the classical literature also brought some major drawbacks. The most important of these is to make most of the current classical literature researchers lack some coherence