Several of the articles in this collection have been published before, and have been related to publications edited or prepared by Mr. Sun Dayu, Dai Wangshu, Shen Congwen, and Sun Yutang. Mr. Chen Linrui and Mr. Li Jianwu once reviewed the whole book, and offered help in publishing and printing. The author traveled far to the mainland, and Ms. Yang Jiang sorted out, selected, and edited these essays in Shanghai to form a collection. May all of them accept the author's thanks without hesitation. sequence Life is said to be a big book. If life is really like this, then most of us authors can only be regarded as book critics, with the ability of book critics, we don’t need to read a few pages of books, a lot of discussions have already been published, and a book review is completed and handed in.

However, there is another kind of person in the world.They feel that the purpose of reading books is not to write book reviews or introductions.They have the casualness and ease of an amateur, and they browse without haste.Whenever they have any comments, they write a few words on the margins of the book, and write a question mark or an exclamation point, like the eyebrows in old Chinese books and the magazines in foreign books.This sporadic reflection is not their conclusion for the whole book.Because they criticize each other at any time, they may contradict each other successively and speak too much.They don't bother to bother, it's just for entertainment anyway, unlike book reviewers who have the important mission of guiding readers and teaching authors.Who has the ability and patience to do those things?

If life is a big book, then the following essays can only be regarded as writing on the sidelines of life.This book is so big!It's not easy to finish reading, even if it's written, there are still a lot of blank spaces. February 18, 1939