当（故事新编）这部历史小说集编印出版时，鲁迅写了篇自序，在序言中，鲁迅对这八篇作品多有不满之处，认为：“其中也还是速写居多，不足称为‘文学概论’之所谓小说。叙事有时也有一点旧书上的根据，有时却不过信口开河。而且因为自己的对于古人，不及对于今人的诚敬，所以 When this series of historical novels was compiled and published, Lu Xun wrote a series of prefaces. In the preface, Lu Xun expressed dissatisfaction with these eight works, saying: "Of these, most of them are still sketches, The so-called novels of ’introduction to literature’, narratives sometimes have a little bit of old books, but they sometimes do not speak the word, and because they are less sincere to the ancients than to the present,