1980年初秋某日,当王仰晨同志在他的办公室里找我谈话,要我接替周振甫先生担任《古籍序跋集》的责编时,绝对是在“赶鸭子上架”,因为我既不是专攻古代文学,也不是专攻文献学的。只得采用笨办法:第一步,寻找手稿,核校有关篇目正文(限于客观条件,这步工作当时做得不够细);第二步, In the early autumn of 1980, when Comrade Wang Yang-chen talked to me in his office and asked me to take over from Mr. Zhou Zhenfu as the editor of the “Prefaces and Tribes of Ancient Books,” it was absolutely “to rush the ducks to the shelves” because I neither specialized in ancient literature , Nor is it specializing in philology. Only by stupid means: the first step, looking for manuscripts, nuclear school related articles (subject to objective conditions, this step was not done enough fine work); the second step,