古人说:“盖棺论定”。但是,从历史上看,有些人物在“盖棺”以后却长期不能“论定”,明清之际的文学理论家、批评家金圣叹就是其中之一。近十余年来,对金圣叹的研究有了很大的进展。他在我国古代文学理论和文学批评史上的巨大贡献,基本上已为我国古代文化的研究者所公认,但对金氏思想的评价却仍有很大的分歧。这个分歧主要是由金批《水浒》、《西厢》,特别是由金批《水浒》中所表露的一些互相矛盾的评语引起的,论 The ancients said: “Coffin set.” However, historically, some people have not been able to “argue” for a long time after “covering the coffin,” and Jin Shengtan, a literary theorist and critic at the time of the Ming and Qing dynasties, was one of them. In the recent ten years, great progress has been made in the study of Jin Shengtan. His great contributions to the history of ancient Chinese literary theory and literary criticism have generally been recognized by the researchers of ancient Chinese culture, but there is still a great deal of disagreement on the evaluation of Jin’s ideas. This disagreement is mainly caused by some contradictory comments in the Gold Medal, “Water Margin”, “The West Wing”, especially from the Gold Medal, “Water Margin”