丧家狗
Reading of "The Analects", I feel, one word: loneliness. Confucius is very lonely. Now, when someone asked him to a psychiatrist, in fact, nobody of his own heart health. In this book, I want to tell you, not the sage Confucius. Letters of praise emperors of Confucius, Confucius is not true, but "artificial Confucius." Real Confucius, Confucius alive, neither holy, nor is the king, not to mention what the "saint outside the King." "If the holy and the kernel, then I dare," which is plainly written in the "Analects" inside. Zi Gong said, Confucius is the "vertical of the holy days," Confucius was immediately denied. Confucius did not accept this honor, and he must give his students to wear the hat. I prefer to respect the ideas of Confucius himself.
本书李零12年前由辽宁教育出版社出版的第一本杂文随笔集，此次由山西人民出版社出版的增订版共收入了28篇文章，分为七辑。其中删掉了旧版中的六篇序跋和《吃苍蝇》，并增加了近年来的十篇新作。原版的《放虎归山》可以说是《花间一壶酒》的“前传”，增订版的《放虎归山》在某些方面则又成了《花间一壶酒》的“后传”。
本书收入的文章是作者近年写作的杂文和随感，全部属于“凡人小史”，即作为一个普通百姓冷眼旁观，对身边的历史、书本上的历史，讲点个人的看法。这些看法，虽然也利用了一点自己的专业知识和杂览偶得的读书感想，但作者关心的事在有如工业流水线的专业学术中没有位置，只能用业余的方式，另外找个地方说话。