自古以来,我们中国人就有幽默的传统,而笑话作为一种流传最广的幽默形式,一直为人们喜爱。除了民间口头流传的笑话外,成书的笑话集也是读书人经史子集之外不可或缺的闲趣。在三国两晋时期,就有邯郸淳和陆云两人分别所著的《笑林》,相当于我们今天的《笑话百则》。在西方,人们同样对笑话情有独衷,许多学者、教士或贵族搜集了民间的幽默故事,整理成笑话选集,有些甚至流传至今。 Since ancient times, we in China have a humorous tradition, and jokes, as one of the most widely circulated forms of humor, have always been loved by the people. In addition to folk verbal jokes, the book joke set is also an indispensable hobby outside the scribe. In the period of Three Kingdoms and Jin dynasties, there were “Humorous Forests” by Chun-Chun and Lu Yun, respectively, equivalent to the “jokes we have today.” In the West, people also have the same self-interest in jokes. Many scholars, priests or aristocrats collected folk-folk stories and compiled them into jokes, some of which have even spread so far.