几千年来,中国文人对长城的考察充满了畏惧感和距离感,长城地带在中国文人的笔下总是与生命的消逝和自然的萧条相联系。而周涛通过对甘肃、陕西、山西长城沿线景、人、事、情的考察,摆脱了长期以来中国文人对长城的畏惧,还原了一段充满生机与活力延续千年直至现代的不朽文明。这一考察,也体现出20世纪90年代知识分子从宏大叙事的大传统到富含生命活力的小传统的一类话语转型。 For thousands of years, the investigation of the Great Wall by Chinese scholars has been full of fear and sense of distance. In the writings of the Chinese literati, the Great Wall is always linked to the disappearance of life and the natural depression. Through the investigation of King, Gansu, Shanxi and Great Wall along the Great Wall of China, Zhou Tao got rid of the fear of the Chinese literati for the Great Wall over a long period of time and restored an immortal civilization full of vigor and vitality for thousands of years up to the present. This investigation also reflects a kind of discourse transformation of intellectuals from the grand tradition of grand narrative to the small tradition full of vitality in the 1990s.