Literary novel scripts of ancient china , depicting vividly its life and culture , capturing the real conditions of its society , were widely read by the general and simple folks of its time 摘要中国古典小说中的话本小说，逼真描绘人们生活与文化，通俗而?实，接近当时社会文化的实况；其中入话扮演引导大众进入正话的关键角色，充分显现大众艺术的特徵。
Based on ancient chinese thought , artistic conception exerts a complete and profound influence on ancient chinese liferary theory and practice , and the infuence has extended to the critics on chinese classic novels 摘要以中国古代“天人合一”思想作为文化之源的意境范畴全面而深刻地影响了中国古代的文学实践和理论，其影响力也及于中国古典小说批评领域。
The origin is as follows : from tang dynasty to qing dynasty , classical chinese novels became mature and critic novel science of ming and qing dynasty arises at the historic moment ; at the beginning of the 20th century , the popularity of chinese novels was established , which helped novel science keep up with the times and approach the populace ; wide exchange between eastern and western cultures offered modern chinese novel science the opportunity of modernization 它的成因是：由唐至清，中国古典小说成熟了，明清评点派小说学应运而生，这是先期准备； 20世纪之初，中国小说的“俗”性已经确立，有助于小说学融入时代、靠向民众；大时代，大话题，大手笔，催生了小说学大学问；中西文化大交汇，为中国小说学走向现代化提供了机缘。
The most distinguished achievement of the lamp over the branch road is its creation of a number of vivid images who are of the following three features : number one , its uniqueness : the creating of the image of the black sheep of a family arid playboys filled up the blank page of the classical chinese novels ; number two , its diversity of images , there was never that many images of the same kind appearing in the classical chinese novels before ; number three , its vividness : its vivid images of the characters playing a part role in a novel 摘要《歧路灯》最突出的艺术成就是塑造了众多栩栩如生的人物形象，此小说的人物形象塑造呈现出三个显著特点：一是独特性，败子及浮浪子弟群像，填补了中国古典小说人物类型的某些空白；二是丰富性，同类群像如此之多，在中国古典小说中是没有过的；三是鲜明性，一些反面人物、小人物个性鲜明。
