【摘要】 将中国古代小说中的情欲描写置于社会历史、文化思想演进的链条中加以考察，可以发现，围绕着内容上情与欲的处理、形式上雅与俗的转化，其衍演经历了三个阶段：先秦至唐，基本反映了人的生物生理本能，情与欲大体和谐，情欲描写由俗到雅；宋元至明末，情与欲分裂，欲的张扬，情的屏弃，情欲描写由雅到俗；清初至近代，情与欲分裂，欲的压抑，理的强调，情欲描写由俗到雅。更多还原

【Abstract】 The description of the emotion and desire in ancient Chinese novels, if it is to be examined against the backgroud of evolutionary chains of social history and cultural ideology, can be found undergoing a transformation of treating the emotion and desire from vulgar to graceful or vice versa, that is, a transformation going through three stages.The first stage is from the Pre-Qin Days to the Tang Dynasty, in which the description basically reflects man’s biophysical instinct and harmony of emotional appetites as a whole, thus a decription from vulgar to graceful; the second stage from the Song and Yuan Dymastoes to the end of the Ming Dynasty, in which the emotion and desire are split up, the appetite hong publicized while the emotion given up, thus the description going from graceful to vulgar; and the third stage from the Qing Dynasty to Modern Times, in which the emotion and desire are split up too, but with the desire being constrained while the reasoning stressed, so the description going from vulgar to graceful.更多还原