我把解放以来的蒙古族小说分为两部分:前草原小说和后草原小说。这样划分有两个标准,一个是历时态标准:前草原小说开始于解放初期,以玛拉沁夫、扎拉嘎胡、敖德斯尔等为代表;后草原小说由1984年白雪林《兰幽幽峡谷》开始,随时间向后延展。但这个标准不是唯一的绝对的,因为属于前草原小说的一些作家在1984年以后也有作品问世,却不能将其归于后草原小说。另一个标准是共时态标准:所谓“前”“后”,各指一种精神,一套价值模式。按美国著名社会学家和政治哲学家丹尼尔·贝尔的说法,在社会发展中, I divided the Mongolian novels since the liberation into two parts: the former grassland novels and the later grasslands novels. This division has two criteria, one is the diachronic criterion: the former grassland novels started in the early liberation, to Maraqinfu, Zalagahu, Odess, etc. as the representative; after the grassland novel by 1984 “ Faint Canyon ”began, extending backwards with time. However, this criterion is not the only absolute, because some writers who belong to the former grassland novels also have their works published after 1984, but they can not be classified as post-prairie novels. Another standard is a common-time standard: the so-called “before” and “after”, each refers to a spirit, a set of value models. According to Daniel Bell, a famous American sociologist and political philosopher, in social development,