《世说新语》记录魏晋清谈之书也。其书上及汉代者,不过追溯原起,以期完备之意。惟其下迄东晋之末刘宋之初迄於谢灵运,固由其书作者只能述至其所生时代之大名士而止,然在吾国中古思想史,则殊有重大意义。盖起自汉末之清谈适至此时代而消灭,是临川康王不自觉中却於此建立一划分时代之界石及编完一部清谈之全集也。前已言清谈在东汉晚年曹魏季世及西晋初期皆与当日士大夫政治态度实际生活有密 “Shi Shuo Xin Yu” record of the book of talks also. The book and the Han Dynasty, but retroactive, with a view to complete meaning. However, until the end of the Eastern Jin Dynasty until the beginning of the Liu-Song Xie Yunyun, solid by its book author can only describe to the age of its generation of celebrities, but in my country, the history of medieval thought, is of great significance. Cover up from the end of the Han Dynasty to appropriate era of this era and eliminate, is Linchuan Kang Wang unconsciously, but here to establish a division of the era of the boundary stone and compiled a complete set of talk. Talked about before in the Eastern Han Dynasty Cao Wei Ji Shi and the early Western Jin Dynasty with the doctor’s political attitude when the actual life is dense