中国古代文学历来有“雅”“俗”之分,这一点虽与西方文学有着相通之处,但二者在各自的文学传统中所占的比重却是大不同的,李福清先生曾准确地指出了它们的区别,他说:“西方俗文学在文学史地位并不高,时间亦不长,大约产生于17世纪,到18世纪末便停止了。中国则不然,从宋代发展到清末,很流行,不断地出版。它的地位介乎民间文 Ancient Chinese literature has always been “elegant” and “vulgar” points, although this point has the similarities with the Western literature, but both in their respective literary traditions share is quite different, Mr. Li Fuqing has accurately Pointed out their differences, he said: "Western popular literature in the literary history status is not high, time is not long, produced in about the 17th century, to the end of the 18th century stopped .China is not the case, from the development of the Song Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty, very Popular and constantly published, its status is in civilian style