在平常的写作和谈话中,每当涉及对不特定多数人的称谓时,我习惯用“公民”或者“民众”的概念,除非是引用或者遇到某些特定的情形,我不会使用“老百姓”或者“人民群众”之类的词汇。有细心的朋友对此不解,我向他们解释:公民是法律概念,人民是政治概念,在一个崇尚法治的国家,我 In normal writing and conversation, I use the concept of “citizen” or “populace” whenever it comes to the designation of an indefinite majority, unless I quote or encounter certain circumstances, and I do not use the term “ People ”or“ people ”and the like. A careful friend of this puzzled, I explained to them: Citizen is the concept of law, the people are political concepts, in a country advocating the rule of law, I