我年轻时对明史颇感兴趣,拉杂地翻阅一些书。记得较早读的是吴晗所著的《读史记》,那是一本札记式的论文集,论述了明代的军兵、币制、教育、宗教等诸方面的情形,文体生动活泼,引人入胜。这本书仍在手头,至今已不知翻多少遍了。以后,我又读了一些明代的野史杂记,虽然野史资料异 When I was young, I was quite interested in the Ming Dynasty. I remember earlier reading is Wu Han’s “Reading History”, which is a collection of essay-style essay on the Ming Dynasty military, currency, education, religion and other aspects of the situation, style vivid and lively, fascinating. This book is still at hand, so far I do not know how many times. Later, I read some Miscellany notes of the Ming Dynasty, although the history of the data is different