我国古代的通俗小说,在人物描写上,往往存在着不同程度的类型化倾向。其实,这种现象,在中外文学史上均曾发生。如公元前1世纪的罗马诗人贺拉斯,他在写给罗马贵族皮索父子的诗体书信———《诗艺》中,就认为不同年龄、身份的人,具有固定不变的特征,如长者的“老态龙钟”,纨绔的 The ancient popular novels in our country often have different types of typological tendencies in portrayals of characters. In fact, this phenomenon has occurred both in the history of Chinese and foreign literature. Such as the first century BC Roman poet Horace, he wrote to the Roman aristocratic Piso father and son poetic letters - “Poetry”, that people of different ages and identities, with a fixed character, Such as the elderly, “senile”, fickle