Chapter 67 Preface to "Ji Shi Zhu"

The People's Literature Publishing House wanted to publish a series of books on creation by writers, and they also asked me for manuscripts.Over the past few decades, with the passage of time and the change of the environment, I have felt something in my heart, and I have written short essays, poems, letters and short stories intermittently and randomly, and handed them out as I wrote them. , I have never written a large article, and I have never had a writing plan, so I can't even talk about the creative path!Moreover, in the past few decades of moving east and west, even some books and manuscripts have been lost. It will take a lot of time and energy to trace these fragmentary traces and clues. Today, I cannot do it. that's it.

Here, I would like to thank Comrade Zhuo Ru - I like to admire this patient and serious young man - she has searched out many pieces of bamboo and sawdust scattered in every corner that I have piecemeal from different eras and different publications, And the collection is very complete!When she showed me this bibliography, I was delighted unexpectedly.For example, I also wrote the short essay "My Childhood" in 1942, and there is no trace of it in my mind! The title of the book is "Ji Shi Zhu", which I thought of on the spur of the moment.The euphemistic title of "beads" does not mean that these essays have any "bejeweled look".In fact, it means that each paragraph of text is like a bead in a string, which has nothing to do with each other. It is just a thin thread of "I" to tie them together.It is for sequence.Early morning of April 28, 1981 (This article was originally published in "New Literature Historical Materials", No. 3, 1981, "Ji Shi Zhu", first published by People's Literature Publishing House in January 1982.)