This paper explores the beginning of the literariness and its background, connotation and value through the concentration of the literariness in the classical texts of Confucianism, Taoism and Mohism.

• 本文力图从先秦儒道墨三家经典文本中对文学性的或正或反两方面的关注入手来发掘这种文学性的初始肇端及其背景、内涵和价值意义。