Zhou Zuoren’s essays and“doggerels”,constantly tell about the“life stories”of the Jiang-han small towns in memory.Those “life stories”are a type of individual memory under the background of society and culture.Those works are a kind of “media”in “collective memory”,which has the three functions of the “cultural memory”media:storage function,communication function and hinting func-tion.Zhou Zuoren’s various texts store the cultural memory of the Jiangnan small towns in the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Chinese Republic,and what they propagate is the social col-lective memorization of the Jiangnan small towns.Zhou Zuoren advocated ambitious prose essays and the technique for ambition is metaphor and hinting.%周作人的小品散文和“打油诗”，不断讲述记忆中的江南小城镇上的“生活故事”。这些“生活故事”是一种社会文化背景下的个人记忆。这些作品是一种“集体记忆”的“媒介”，具有“文化记忆”媒介的三个功能：存储功能、传播功能和暗示功能。周作人的众多文本储存了关于清末民初江南小城镇的文化记忆，传播的又是江南小城镇社会群体的记忆。周作人主张言志的小品散文，而言志方式则为隐喻和暗示。
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