A Nightmare Shadow is a book written by Zhang Chao in his later years with quotations. It has 216 articles, covering social life, making friends, landscapes, flowers and birds, romantic rain and snow, literary appreciation, reading and writing, and so on. It is miscellaneous and colorful. Zhang Chao has a high talent, many books and extensive experience. In "The Shadow of a Dream", he philosophized what he saw, heard and felt, and his feelings were sincere. Its words try to be concise and smooth, but not superficial; Painstakingly casting words and refining sentences, but not losing nature. In particular, the author wrote rich, vivid and philosophical contents with such a small space as aphorisms and quotations, which made people feel meaningful after reading them. For example, "self-discipline should bring autumn spirit, and life should bring spring spirit"; "To be rich is not to be poor, to be worried about life is not to be happy to die"; "Young people must have mature knowledge, and old adults must have a young mind" and so on. All these reflect the profound insights formed by the author after observing the society, life and nature and analyzing them in depth. Because of this, when people read The Shadow of a Sleepy Dream, they often experience that there is a purpose in the heart, and there is often nothing in the mouth. The profound philosophy is always found in the words. Once it is revealed, it has a sense of "hitting the nail on the head". At that time, the book "The Shadow of a Dream" was re-valued by many scholars, and three people wrote "preface" and "postscript" for it. In the preface, Yu Huai praised the book, "There are many wonderful sayings, which say what people can't say, and what people do without Tao is low in taste, like eating the emperor's pulp;" Listening to Jun Tian Guang Le, I don't know that this body is below the earth. " In the preface, Shi Pang praised Zhang Chao for "writing for his ease of temperament, and writing for his experience, which is as clear as the clock of the Brahma room, making people save;" If you sound like the priest of Mount Nishan, don't think deeply. " Zhang Youhu commented in the "Postscript": "Every line and sentence in this book, either famous words or rhymes, comes from the experience of the chest, so it can send people to the police and save money, and everything can be precious." In particular, it should be pointed out that more than 13 scholars, including Zhang Zhupo, Mao Bijiang and other literary critics, have commented on the book "Nightmare Shadow" almost one by one. Most of these relaxed and relaxed comments reflect each other with the original text, which can be said that green leaves help flowers and complement each other. This comment occupies a large space in the wrong book. It is not uncommon for ancient writings to be accompanied by comments, but the wrong comments in the whole book are the original creation of A Dream in a Lonely Shadow. The book "The Shadow of a Dream" has a great influence on later generations, and works with the title of "The Dream of a Dream" appear constantly. There are more collections with similar contents, but none of them can compare with it. Mr. Lin Yutang highly praised The Sleeping Shadow. He wrote in The Enjoyment of Nature that human beings, with the qualification of feeling artists, choose the appropriate tastes of nature and make them coordinate with themselves. This is the attitude of all the writers of China's poems or essays. "But I think the best performance in this respect is the epigram of Zhang Chao (in the middle of the seventeenth century) in The Sleeping Shadow. This is a collection of literary aphorisms. There are many such collections in China, but none of them can be compared with those written by Zhang Chao himself. " In Enjoyment of Nature, he also selected the following works with the topics: what is appropriate, flowers and beauty, mountains and rivers, spring and autumn, sound, rain, wind and moon, leisure and friends, books and reading and general life. Among them, "Delicious food is chewed up, wonderland is roughed up, deep feelings are conveyed in shallow words, good times are treated with wine and food, and wealth is treated with arrogance, all of which are lost in nature" and "The crane makes people escape, the horse makes people handsome, the orchid makes people secluded, and the pine makes people ancient" are two collections of "Dark Dreams". Mr. Zheng Yimei, a great writer of literature and history, said that he likes to write short essays, and it is also because he was influenced and inspired by The Shadow of a Dream. He believes that "this kind of famous works, although few words, are very meaningful, very refined narrative, with fewer wins more, resistant to people's play, which is not a word for those who have advanced studies." His new shadow of a dream is not inferior to the shadow of a dream. While affirming the positive role of the book, we should also see that it, like all cultural heritages, cannot be without the imprint and limitations of the times. The book "Nightmare Shadow" is mixed with some unhealthy thoughts. For example, some show the vulgar taste and decadent life of feudal literati, while others preach the negative thoughts of karma and emptiness, which should be criticized and discarded. In a word, Sleeping Shadows is a collection of aphorisms that integrates self-cultivation, treating people in the world, enjoying nature and appreciating literature and art. Its insights and experiences on society, life, nature and literature and art are of certain reference, enlightenment and aesthetic significance for us to know history, objective reality, the relationship between people and society, people and nature, and people and art, and to cultivate our thoughts and sentiments. For this reason, with the strong support of Jiangxi Education Publishing House, we copied Sleepy Shadows from Zhao Dynasty Series and published them with punctuation notes for readers. Mr. Lu Xun once pointed out: we should have the courage to "bring" our cultural heritage and foreign cultural achievements; But "take" what, but "use your brain and let out your eyes. For fear of pollution, refusing to accept cultural heritage is a "concubine"; Accept everything gladly, "suck the remaining opium, which is of course more waste." As long as we take Marxism as the guide, critically absorb, eliminate the dross, absorb the essence, and correctly guide and explain this kind of cultural heritage, we can make it serve for enriching people's spiritual life, building socialist culture with China characteristics and building socialist spiritual civilization. Huang Qinglai was appointed as Xin Chen Dinghua on December 25th, 1991.