《私法》的主编易继明博士请我为他的出版物作序,我感到非常高兴。公法、私法之分肇始于罗马法时代。此后,在欧洲漫长的历史长河中,私法不仅吸收了教会法、各地习惯法等营养,而且借助于资本主义经济和思想文化的蓬勃发展,逐渐形成了一种内涵丰富、影响深远的私法传统以及私法文化。这种私法传统和私法文化,一方面为西方文明的产生、发展和繁荣提供了思想动力和制度保障,而另一方面,西方文明的兴盛也为私法制度和私法精神的完善、深化与发展提 I am very happy that Dr. Yi Jimeng, editor-in-chief of Private Law, asked me to preface his publication. Public law, private law of the points began in the Roman law era. Since then, in the long history of Europe, private law has not only absorbed the nutrition of the ecclesiastical law and customary law in other places, but also gradually formed a tradition of private law with profound connotation and profound influence through the vigorous development of the capitalist economy and ideology and culture as well as Private law culture. On the one hand, this private law tradition and private law culture provide ideological impetus and system guarantee for the emergence, development and prosperity of western civilization. On the other hand, the rise of western civilization also improves, deepens and develops the private law system and the private law spirit