若要从文化的角度来谈文学，似乎应该先说明什么是“文化”。有些人类学家好在定义上做文章，竟然理出160多种有关文化的定义。在这里自然不容许我把这160多种定义一一阐明，即使说明了也没有意义，我只能简单地说，从人类学的立场上看，文化是人类因营生所需而创造出来的所有 To talk about literature from a cultural point of view, it seems appropriate to state what is meant by “culture.” Some anthropologists are good at defining the definition, even out of more than 160 kinds of cultural definitions. Naturally, I can not allow myself to clarify these 160 definitions one by one. Even if it does not make any sense, I can only say simply that from an anthropological standpoint, culture is all that mankind has to create for his job