士绅是明清社会的重要阶层,在近代政治发展过程中起着重要作用,并且开始急剧分化,最终走向末路。清末新小说到民初的小说参与了这一进程,通过士绅形象的建构密切介入到当时政治的想象与实践,并且奉献了志士、劣绅等一系列典型的文学形象,以此构成了不同时期文学变迁的重要标识。 Gentry, an important social class in Ming and Qing dynasties, played an important role in the political development in modern times. It began to differentiate sharply and finally reached the end. The novel in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China took part in this process. Through the construction of the image of the gentry, it intervened closely in the imagination and practice of politics at that time, and presented a series of typical literary images such as clerics and inferior gentry, thus constituting the literature of different periods An important symbol of change.