上世纪80年代以来,我国大陆地区文论家逐步形成以下共识:在与韵文相对的文学性散文家族中有必要确立学者散文这一新门类。同时文论家们普遍认为,虽然我国文学性散文源远流长,但学者散文的真正形成是在五四以后,梁实秋的《雅舍小品》、钱钟书的《写在人生边上》、王了一的《龙虫并雕斋琐语》,为早期优秀代表。五四以前我国并非没有学者,也并非没有出自学者之手的文学性散文,但在文论家眼里,他们这类作品不属学者散文。这无疑因为五四以前我国尚未形成以学术研究为职业的学者群,同时 Since the 1980s, literary theorists in mainland China gradually formed the following consensus: It is necessary to establish a new category of scholarly prose in the literary essayist family as opposed to verse. At the same time, literary theorists generally believe that although the literary essay in our country has a long history, the real formation of scholarly essays was written by Liang Shih-ch’iu’s “Jasper Pieces” and Qian’s “On the edge of life” after the May Fourth Movement Of the “dragon worms and trivial language” for the early outstanding representatives. Before the May Fourth Movement, there was no literary essay in China without scholars, but in the eyes of the literary theorists, these works are not scholars’ essays. This is undoubtedly because before the May Fourth Movement there was not yet a scholar group occupying academic research in our country, meanwhile