金圣叹通过对《水浒传》的分析评点 ,阐释了小说的四大功能和价值 :反映社会现实 ,批判时弊的功能 ;发抒创作主体情感的功能 ;感叹人心 ,激励向善 ,惩戒丑恶 ,警醒世人的惩劝教化功能和自娱娱人的审美愉悦功能 ,因而证明了小说生存和发展的合理性和必要性。金圣叹对小说功能的认识 ,达到了他那个时代所可能达到的高度 Jin Shengtan through the analysis of “Outlaws of the Marsh”, comments on the four major functions and values ​​of the novel: to reflect the social reality, to criticize the current disadvantages; to express the creative subject’s emotional function; to sigh the heart, inspire the good, punish the ugly and alert the world The function of persuasion and enlightenment, and the pleasure of entertaining and entertaining, thus proved the rationality and necessity of the survival and development of the novel. Jin Shengtan’s understanding of the function of the novel reached the height that his era may reach