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There are more than twenty essays in the book, all of which are compiled into books for the first time. The writer uses simple and affectionate writing to describe the people and things he met at various stages of his life, including his parents and brothers, teachers and classmates, and fellow travelers... All of them left their mark on his life. There are years that we can look back on, and there are also realities that we are deeply moved by. Most of them are the nostalgia of friendship, the sigh of experience, and the true knowledge of what I saw and heard. The author's feelings and gratitude are filled with words. At the same time, the self-anatomy is sincere and magnanimous, which makes people admire...

This is a passage Hu Shi wrote in his diary on March 8, 1917. It is marked as line 125 of chapter 18 of "The Iliad". He did not take it directly from the book. The diary states that before the religious reform movement in Britain in the 19th century began, its future leaders, Newman, Froude, and Keble, had long hoped to reform religion. The three of them combined their religious poems into a volume, and Newman used this line from Homer's poem as the topic. The meaning is as follows: "Now that we are back, please wait and see what happens." The diary also said that this can also be a pioneer flag for our generation of overseas students. Many years later, when Hu Shi retranslated this sentence again, he made slight changes.

Since the late 1980s, when I discovered that I did not have much talent for writing novels, I turned to the research of modern literary figures and the writing of biographies of such figures. I soon discovered that writing requires sufficient talent, and academic research is not enough. After struggling to write "The Biography of Li Jianwu" and "The Biography of Xu Zhimo", my meager talent became even more tenuous. Fortunately, I love buying and reading books by nature, and from time to time, I make some small discoveries, which can nourish my almost exhausted spirituality.

This book is part of the "Rise of the Jin Army Literary Archives" series of books, divided into five series: the first series "Thoughts and Lamentations", the second series "Hometown Chronicles", the third series "Teaching Career", the fourth series "Impressions of Taiyuan", the fifth series "Literati Portraits", the sixth series "Literary Essays", and the seventh series "Three Novels". It contains nearly 80 prose essays published and published by the famous Shanxi writer Han Shishan in the 1980s, as well as three short stories: "The Man Who Painted Tigers", "Moonlight Night in the Cotton Field" and "Continuous Rain". As a representative writer of "The Rise of the Jin Army", Han Shishan's essays are kind and wise, especially narrative and lyrical prose, which are exquisite in length, natural and fresh, and reveal a strong sense of human true feelings and compassion. It is completely different from the style of joking, cursing, and sharp-edged essays.