《增订刘子校注》前言

A Preface to the Revised and Enlarged Edition of Liu Zi Jiao Zhu

《刘子》是北朝子书之最优秀者，书中引用成文和征事数典之处，比比皆是。所以对其进行校勘和注释大有必要。刘子的作者是北齐的刘昼，而非刘勰。刘子与文心雕龙，在思想倾向、艺术风格、语言结构、习用字句等方面均有明显不同。

Liu Zi is the best among the genre of Zi books in the Northern Dynasty.t is full of allusions, hence proofreading and annotation are quite necessary.It is not Liu Xie but Liu Zhou who has written it.There are vast differences in terms of ideological tendency,artistic style,language structure and idiom-usage between Liu Zi and Wen Xin Diao Long.