I started writing this book this spring at the instigation of a friend. After about four months, I accumulated these thirty articles and compiled them into a book.In fact, my life is not idle, but I always have some free time near Taihu Lake, where I see idle clouds, wild gulls, sails and waves from time to time.My thoughts are always teased and brewed in those leisure time.And what I think is really useless in the world.I'm not saying that I'm indifferent to these practical aspects of life and don't want to help.But I always feel that I don't have the wisdom and the energy to grasp the crux of the current real life and try to provide a kind of guidance or mediation.Therefore, I can only hide on the side like this, like a person with nothing to do, and think about those idle thoughts that don't matter.I don't talk about my idle thoughts, so I will come to an end in these twenty articles.It is only because of my leisurely thoughts that I finally produced them leisurely during these three or four months of leisure time, but in reality I only recorded and wrote them out leisurely.And I think that people who read my book may just want to finish it in three or four days or three or four hours.If I can't hide these manuscripts for a long time, there will be a lot of backlogs, and I am afraid that the readers will be even more anxious, and they will have to read my too many "" Idle Thoughts Record".If you are busy reading, you will not be able to appreciate the taste of idle thinking.Therefore, these 30 articles are published first, so as to relieve the oppression of readers who are busy reading.In the future, if I have more opportunities to think about it, I can write it continuously, and then compile it into three sequels, so that readers can read it at their leisure.

In my "Xiansilu", I never imagined that Confucianism, Mohism, Taoism, and Dharma, like our ancient pre-Qin philosophers, formed their own schools of thought to lure the world and guide the customs.I never imagined that our Neo Confucianists in the Song and Ming Dynasties, King Cheng Zhulu, each wanted to inherit or invent a lineage, and those who would continue to learn and create.I never imagined that the philosophers in Western Europe, systematically, organized, rigorously, and precisely condensed their thoughts on one line, and followed logical deduction, hoping to discover an objective truth that would enlighten the universe and life. mysterious.I'm really just idle thinking, but it's just idle thinking. When I wrote the first article, I didn't plan in advance how to write the second article.When I wrote the second article, I didn't try to take care of or return to the first article.Now that I just have some free time, I think and write intermittently. This is a kind of doing nothing, letting it go naturally, regardless of the front and the future, and the future regardless of the front.And before I started writing "Xiansilu", the friend who encouraged me had already given me a limit, and he didn't want me to write long articles. In terms of the number of words, he hoped that I would not exceed two to three thousand words.I began to write like this, and I will write like this later.And I think that the length is limited, so I can save myself from being rushed.I made a reservation in my heart to only write these words, so that I would not lose the leisure time when I started writing.After writing two to three thousand words, I stopped abruptly, and I never thought that I must turn my idle thoughts at that time into a decent theory.Sometimes more is written above, and less will be said below, and sometimes less said above, and more will be written below.Moreover, when I was writing each article, I didn't have a predetermined topic, and sometimes I thought of more complex and profound ones, and I only handed in the paper within three or four thousand words.Sometimes I think of simpler and shallower ones, and I also submit papers in this three or four thousand words.After finishing writing, just pick up one or two words from the article as the title and put it on a sign.Some are unfinished in the previous article, and will be added in the next article.Some of them have already been mentioned in the previous article, and will be repeated in the next article.Some of them are just an example of a certain article, some seem to be conflicting and inconsistent between the two articles, and some have too many meanings, and I don’t bother to elaborate.The titles before and after are all in accordance with the order of writing, and have not been re-arranged.One or two articles in the middle are old manuscripts, which were slightly rewritten because of the genre relationship of classical Chinese and vernacular.However, these are still my own observations, and it was written in the middle of four months, so there should still be a system.These can only be recognized by readers themselves.I only ask readers to relax their minds when they are about to read, then everything will be easy to forgive, and everything will be easy to forgive.

The friend who encouraged me, and the person who inspired me to start writing this "Xiansilu" was Mr. Xie Youwei.He was discussing manuscripts for Xuejin, the supplement of Shenbao, and my manuscript was started, but Xuejin of Shenbao was discontinued.I got excited and finally got this little book.Let me take this opportunity to thank Mr. Xie for his encouragement. In the summer of 1948, Qian Mu met in Rong Lane, Wuxi