作为我国现代文学史上的一位散文大家,林语堂30年代的“幽默文学”曾引起强烈的反响。但随着左翼文人对他的批判,“幽默文学”很快销声匿迹了。林语堂本人也去了海外。本文即在30年代的社会环境中,梳理“幽默文学”的提出到发扬及讨论林语堂提倡“幽默”的原因,并看待当时文坛对他的争论。 As an essayist in the history of modern Chinese literature, Lin Yu-tang’s “humorous literature” in the 1930s has aroused strong repercussions. However, as the left-wing literary critics criticized him, “humorous literature” quickly disappeared. Lin Yutang himself went overseas. This article refers to the reason why the proposition of “humorous literature” combed forward in the social environment of the 1930s to promote and discuss Lin Yutang’s advocacy of “humor” and looked at the controversy over him in the literary world at that time.