1998年,黄河断流,长江大水,使我想起了一部书:《水经注》。1940年秋天,我在贵州遵义闲住。那正是抗日战争的艰苦年代,夜间无电。我用废罐头,翻过来在底上加工,放一些桐油,摆两根灯心草,点上火,就成了我小时候用过的油灯。战时食用油贵重,只好拿桐油代替。不很亮,但足够在灯下读书。我在书店买来一本 In 1998, the Yellow River cut off the flood of the Yangtze River, reminds me of a book: “Water by the note.” In the autumn of 1940, I was living in Zunyi, Guizhou. That was the hard time of the war of resistance against Japan and there was no electricity at night. I use canned food, turn over the bottom of the processing, put some tung oil, put two rush grass, lit, it became the oil lamp I used when I was young. Wartier cooking oil expensive, had to take tung oil instead. Not very bright, but enough to study under the lamp. I bought a bookstore