随笔,是散文的一种。这类散文有异于正统散文,由于它形式不拘一格,篇幅较为短小,因此作者写作时不受拘束,遇有可写时就随笔写去,朴质无华,情调亲切,易使读者感动,深受人们的喜爱和欢迎。这类散文肇始魏、晋,于两宋盛行,当时多称为“笔记散文”。例如,北宋沈括述史事、天文、乐律、象数、艺文、技艺、器用、药议等的《梦溪笔谈》,苏东坡记自己身边的琐事、读书心得,以及出游、怀古的《东坡志林》,都是我国早期的随笔。但也有在当时就明确地将它命名为“随笔”的,如南宋的洪迈。他在自己写作的《容斋随笔》的“自序”中说:予习懒,读书不多,意之所之,随即纪录;因其先后,无复诠次,故目 Essay, is a kind of prose. This kind of prose differs from orthodox essay. Because of its eclectic style and shorter length, the author is not restricted when writing. By people’s love and welcome. Origins of such prose Wei, Jin, prevailed in the two Songs, was called “notes prose ”. For example, the Northern Song Shen Shen recounting history, astronomy, music law, elephant number, arts, art, equipment, medicine and other “Meng Xi Bi Tan”, Su Dongpo remember his trivia, reading experience, and travel, Zhilin “are all early essays in our country. However, it was also explicitly named as ”essay“ at the time, such as Hong Mai of the Southern Song Dynasty. He said in his authored essay ”Preface": pretend to be lazy, not to read much, the meaning of the place, then record; because of its successive, no repeat interpretation, so head