2002年2月8日上午11时45分,敬爱的钱老和我们永别了,享年91岁,根据钱老的遗愿,遗体捐献用于医学研究,丧事从简,不开追悼会。2001年10月底,《钱钟韩九十年代文集》出版。钱老夫人沈慧贤教授打电话给我,说钱老出了一本书,送我一本,并送给九三的一些领导,让我去她家取。当时,钱老住在医院里,沈老说起了钱老的病情日愈严重。自2001年5月起,我先后撰写了《高觉敷传略》、《李庆逵传略》,但二老均已过世,有些问题无法请教。何不乘钱老头脑清醒时,请教他一些问题呢?沈老原先想让钱老口述,我录音,后又说钟韩的身体已不许可了。最后决定,我提问,他方便时作答。这样,这便得到了钱老对一些问题的书面回答。其中有一次,第一页第一条就是:钟书是我终生的竞赛对手。今天,我以此为题作篇短文,奉献在钱老的灵前。 At 8:45 am on February 8, 2002, beloved money and old farewell to us, at the age of 91, according to the old wishes of Qian, remains donated for medical research, funeral, not to memorial service. By the end of October 2001, “Qian Zhonghan’s Collected Works of the 1990s” was published. Professor Qian Huixian, the old lady of the money, called me and said that Qian Lao had a book, sent me a copy, and gave some leadership to the 9 March for letting me go to her home. At that time, Qian old living in the hospital, Shen old talk about the growing old money more serious. Since May 2001, I have authored Confessions of High Comings and Biography of Li Qingtao, but both of them have passed away and some problems can not be consulted. Why not take the money when the old man sober, ask him some questions? Shen old originally wanted to make the money old oral, I recorded, and then said Chung Han’s body has been disallowed. The final decision, I asked, he answered at his convenience. In this way, Qian received his written reply to some questions. One time, the first page of the first page is: Zhongshu is my lifelong competition. Today, I use this essay as an essay devoted to the old soul of money.