在谭其骧先生离开我们九个月后,汇集了他一九八二年以后主要论文和他在编绘、修订《中国历史地图集》过程中所写大部分考释文字的《长水集续编》终于可以发往人民出版社了。遗憾的是,这个集子没有一篇他自己写的序言或后记,而他为《长水集》所写的自序曾经以其谨严求实的作风、恳切直率的态度为学术界所传颂。如今,我只能用这篇文章叙述先师的最后岁月和我受命编《续编》的缘由,寄托那道不完、写不尽的哀思和怀念。 Nine months after Mr. Tan Qixian left us, he compiled his major essays after 1982 and his series entitled “Long Shui Progresses”, which he wrote in the course of compiling and revising “China’s historical atlas” Can finally be sent to People’s Publishing House. Regrettably, this collection does not contain a preface or postscript written by himself. His autobiography written by Chang Shui Ji has been praised academically for his rigorous and realistic style. Now I can only use this article to describe the last years of the ancestors and the reason why I was ordered to make a “sequel,” laying down the endless, endless grief and misgivings.