周作人的时代早已过去了。那个时代的文人,吸烟、饮酒、品茶,都远别于衣食男女,刻意追求某种超凡脱俗的境界,仿佛不是在满足肉体浅显的欲望,而是为了实现心灵对闲适的渴念。这就是人生了。所以,周作人路过西四牌楼以南的异馥斋,这义和团之前的老店独木招牌上模糊阴暗的字迹,会使一种焚香静坐的安闲而丰腴的生活的幻想油然而生;然过其门而不入,生怕那古典的香盒上已放着花露水与日光皂了。他甚至对北京区 The era of Zhou Zuoren has long passed. Literati of that time, smoking, drinking, tea, are far from the men and women of clothing and food, deliberately pursuing a certain level of vulgarity, as if not to satisfy the simple appetites of the flesh, but in order to achieve the soul’s desire for leisure. This is life. Therefore, Zhou Zuo-ren passes the south of the Xisi archway Hebeibai, before the boxer’s old wooden sign on the dark and dim handwriting, will make a peaceful and serene incense sit in the fantasy of life abundant life; however The door does not enter, for fear that the classical incense box has been placed toilet water and sunshine soap. He even on Beijing area