春光明媚,百花吐艳,在一年中最好的这个季节,我们开始创办文学杂志《当代》。粉碎“四人帮”后的文苑,犹如严冬过后的春天,一派勃勃生机。但愿从今以后,在文艺的百花园中,永远不再重现北风凛冽的寒冬。两年半以来,全国的文艺刊物有如雨后春笋,复刊和新创者已达百余种。我们现在创办这个刊物,如果能做到锦上添花,那就如愿以偿了。我们是文学书籍出版社,收到的稿件越来越多,其中够水平的好作品可谓不少。但由于印装条件差,周期长,出书慢,远不能满足读者要求。哪个作家不愿自己的辛勤劳作早日问 The spring is bright and the flowers bloom. In the best season of the year, we started the literary magazine Contemporary. Crushed “gang of four ” after the court, like a winter after the harsh winter, one booming vitality. I hope from now on, in the hundred arts and cultural garden, will never reproduce the breezy winter. In the past two and a half years, literary and art journals in the country have mushroomed, with more than 100 kinds of magazines and new creators. We now set up this publication, if we can icing on the cake, it got it. We are literary book publishers, receiving more and more manuscripts, of which a good level of good works can be described as many. However, due to poor printing conditions, long cycle, slow book, far from meeting the reader’s requirements. Which writer is unwilling to ask his hard work earlier?