在中国这样一个农业文明历史悠久、农村人口占绝大多数的国度里,“乡土”自然成为作家驰骋想象的舞台。但乡土和小说产生纠缠关系却是从现代文学开始的。中国农村的前现代化特征和“五四”知识分子的文化启蒙立场将文学审美与特定空间场域结合起来,形成“乡土小说”这种叙事类 In a country like China with a long history of agricultural civilization and the vast majority of rural population, “native land” naturally becomes a stage where writers can ride their imagination. However, the relationship between local culture and novels started from modern literature. The pre-modernization features of China’s rural areas and the cultural enlightenment position of the May Fourth intellectuals combined literary aesthetics with specific spatial fields to form the narrative category of “native novels”