二十多年前的1990年《中国乞丐史》出版,著名出版家江曾培先生在题为《开拓补缺,亦庄亦谐——读〈中国乞丐史〉》的评论中认为:“这是一本补缺的书,一本别致的书,一本颇富价值的书……有益于对整个社会文化作全面而深入的把握,表明我国社会文化专史的研究,明显地拓展到江湖下层社会了。”紧跟着引出了《中国社会民俗史丛书》的出版,一时受到相关学术领域和媒体的热烈反响和关注。何至于此?当有两点。一是自上个世纪 The 1990 publication of “The History of China’s Beggar” was published more than 20 years ago. The famous publisher Jiang Zengpei concluded in his commentary entitled “Opening up and Supplement, Also Praying and Harmony - Reading the History of China’s Beggar”: “This is a vacancy Book, a chic book, a book of great value ... which is good for a comprehensive and in-depth grasp of the entire social culture and shows that the study of the history of social culture in our country clearly extends to the lower-class society. Followed by the publication of ”Chinese Social Folklore Series" published, for some time by the relevant academic fields and the media’s warm response and attention. As for this? There are two points. First, since the last century