作为《山居笔记》的话语核心,《一个王朝的背影》被放在了全书之首。这是作者在有意暗示它的引领作用。这篇“散文”试图向读者表达这样一种观点：尽管满族的康熙皇帝曾经以大兴“文字狱”而“臭名昭著”,但他“竟然比明代历朝皇帝更热爱和精通汉族文化”。由于这个缘故,作者惊喜地发现,就连中国当时“最有抵触的汉族知识分子也开始与康熙和解了”。这一戏剧性的“和解”,以与清廷“不共戴天”的黄宗羲的“软 As the core of the discourse of “Mountain House Notes”, “The Back of a Dynasty” was placed at the head of the book. This is the author’s intention to imply its leading role. This “prose” attempts to express to readers the view that even though the Manchu Emperor Kangxi was “famous” with Daxing “Writing Prison”, he “actually loved and mastered Han culture better than the emperors of the Ming Dynasty”. For this reason, the author was pleasantly surprised to find that even the most resistant Chinese intellectuals in China at that time also began to reconcile with Kangxi. This dramatic “reconciliation” is with the “softness of the Qing court” of Huang Zongxi’s “softness”