在春秋战国时代,就已经出现“俗语”这个词。《礼记·大学》中有:“谚,俗语也”。汉代《汉书·五行志》中说:“谚,俗所传言也”。这说明,汉代以前,“谚”和“俗语”已经存在,并认为二者是一个语类。唐宋以后,特别是明清白话小说中,俗语被更广泛地应用于文学作品中,但这时俗语的 In the Spring and Autumn Period, there has been the word “proverb”. “Book of Rites University” in: “proverb, proverb also.” In the Han Dynasty, “Han Five Elements” said: “Proverbs, vulgar rumors also.” This shows that before the Han Dynasty, “proverbs” and “proverbs” already existed and regarded both as a category. After the Tang and Song Dynasties, especially in the vernacular novels of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the saying was widely used in literary works, but at this time,