明清时期,小说逐渐摆脱实录的观念,明确了自己作为散文体叙事文学的文类特点,虚构的性质得到明确的肯定。与此同时,实录观念逐渐衰退,并在近代完全为虚构观念所取代。不过,明清叙事思想虽然肯定虚构,但并不认为文学可以脱离生活而存在。无论是写实派还是幻奇派,强调的仍是文学与生活的联系,以及文学的生活基础,要求文学表现出生活的真实。 During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the novel gradually escaped the concept of tales and clarified its genre characteristics as the narrative literature of prose style. The fictional nature was clearly affirmed. At the same time, the concept of recorded realities has gradually declined, and in modern times it has been completely replaced by fictional concepts. However, although the narrative thought in the Ming and Qing Dynasties certainly affinities, but does not think literature can exist without life. Whether it is a realistic or a fanciful school, the emphasis is still on the connection between literature and life and on the basis of life of literature, which requires that literature should show the truth of life.