中国现代文学语言的形成大致经历了以下几个步骤：首先是西学东渐后在版章书刊中涌现的翻译语汇和新造字词，然后是开明思想家和政治家对白话文的积极尝试，接着是五四新文化运动对白话文的大规模提倡，最后是一代代作家的创作使白话文学作品成为二十世纪中国文学的主流。 The formation of Chinese modern literary language has gone through roughly the following steps: first is the translation of vocabulary and new words emerged in the books and magazines after the graduation of Western Learning, and then positive enlightenment thinkers and politicians on the vernacular language of the positive attempt, followed by five Four new cultural movement on the large-scale advocacy of vernacular language, and finally the creation of writers from generation to generation to make vernacular literature works of Chinese literature in the twentieth century mainstream.