本文以口传叙事与书写叙事的关系入手,对中国古代小说发展史上的几个重要阶段加以考察,力图寻找古代小说在故事累积及语体变化方面的某些规律。本文认为,口传与书写是两种不同的传播方式,二者之间存在着相互转化的关系,而且可能不止一次。每一次转化,都会对小说的故事内容及语体造成影响。一般而言,口传是造成白话的主要原因,而与书写相随的则是文言。但随着白话书面语的发展,至宋元时期这一规律被打破,宣告了白话小说的诞生。 This article starts with the relationship between oral narrative and narrative writing, examines several important stages in the development history of Chinese ancient novels, and tries to find some regularities in ancient novels about the accumulation of stories and the change of style. This article argues that oral communication and writing are two different ways of communication, and there is a mutual transformation between the two, and may be more than once. Each conversion, will have an impact on the story content and style of the novel. In general, oral communication is the main cause of vernacular, but writing is accompanied by the classical Chinese. However, with the development of vernacular written language, this law was broken up during the Song and Yuan Dynasties, proclaiming the birth of vernacular novels.