对于“80后”一代人来讲,读懂焦祖尧也许很难,因为岁月的风刀血剑何其锋利,已经使得天地之间沧桑巨变。然而读懂焦祖尧又是走进一个领域、体味一种温度、触摸一个时代。我信服一位在岁月中沉浮的老作家写下这样一段文字:“我逐渐看到了现实生活和逝去岁月中许多喜剧、悲剧、正剧、闹剧得以反复演出的社会根源和历史原因。”1从“牛棚”到田野,从农村到矿山,从“十七年”到“文革”再到改革开放,从《总工 For generations after 80s, it may be hard to read Jiao Zuyao, because of the sharpness of the sword of the ages and the vicissitudes of heaven and earth. However, Jiao Zuyao read into another area, appreciate a temperature, touch an era. I am convinced that an old writer who was up and down in the years wrote a passage like this: “I gradually saw the social roots and historical causes of many comedies, tragedies, drama, and farce recurring in real life and past years.” 1 From the “bullpen” to the fields, from the countryside to the mines, from “Seventeen Years” to “Cultural Revolution” to reform and opening up,