Chapter 43 10. About "A Collection of Talking About Everything" ①

①This is the preface of "A Collection of Talking About Everything", with some deletions. In the winter of 1946, Mr. Ma Xingye came to the United States and asked me to be one of the columnists for the Central News Agency.Since 1936, I resigned from the editorial responsibility of the semi-monthly magazines, "Human World", and "Cosmic Wind", and went to the United States to monograph English books. I have not played this tune for 30 years since I wrote in Chinese.Mr. Ma gave me this good opportunity to return to my old job, and I couldn't help seeing Lie Xinxie, so I readily agreed.From the spring of 1965 to 1967, he successively wrote articles and published them.Later, because of the contract with the Chinese University of Hong Kong to compile the "Contemporary Chinese-English Dictionary", it was difficult to take care of it, so it dropped out again.In total, no less than 180 articles have been written in three years, and the previous one or two episodes have been sold out, and readers are desperate.It was discussed with the Kaiming Bookstore, together with the writings written in 1968 (should have been three volumes), compiled into a collection, re-categorized and compared, or slightly supplemented with chapter titles for detailed preparation.Mr. Fuqin resolutely agrees, and intends to use the old No. 5 typeface to typesetting again, so as to re-edit the final version, which is refreshing.Mr. Fuqin's kindness and kindness as a confidant for half a lifetime will never be forgotten.

The book miscellaneous talks about ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, landscapes and figures, and many short works, which have opinions. It is written in a simple and simple style, with simple ideas, not emphasizing theory, and not involving mystery. There are a few argumentative essays in it, which are the focus of my thoughts. send.For example, "Dai Dongyuan and Us", "Speaking of Honesty and Falsehood", and "On the National Nature of China and Foreign Countries" vigorously denounced hypocritical Neo-Confucianism, suppressed Cheng Zhu, respected Confucius and Mencius, and believed that Song Confucianism used Buddhism to enter Confucianism, talked about nature, and dismissed it. The philosophy of Confucius and Mencius is very far away. Those who believe in Confucianism are not in meditation, but they are already half in meditation. Yan Xizhai and Gu Tinglin have already said it before me.This is the transition of Confucianism from movement to tranquility, and the people of the country must deeply understand the reason. "On the Differences between Eastern and Western Thinking Methods" is my consistent central idea, especially when I elaborate on this discussion, I feel so dangerous that I dare not not tell.