晚清民国文学史家运用新史学的时间观,以一个时间段去考察文学动态过程,发现某个时间段文学现象的同质性,同时又确立了另一时间段文学现象的异质性,借鉴当时史学对历史分期的“三分法”和“四分法”对文学史进行分期,而不再采用“国王即位及其驾崩的时间所决定的那种僵死的编年顺序分期法”。 In the late Qing Dynasty, the literary historians of the Republic of China used the time view of New History to examine the dynamic process of literature in a period of time and found the homogeneity of the literary phenomenon in a certain period of time. At the same time, it established the heterogeneity of the literary phenomenon in another period of time. At that time, historiography divided the history of literature into “thirds” and “fourths” of historical staging instead of the rigid chronology of “the ascent of the king and the time of his death” Sequence staging ".