Reflections on reading history books

My thoughts on The Outline of China People's History

Before, I always proudly told people that if my family was rich, I would definitely apply for the history major. The reason for saying this was that on the one hand, I showed that I was actually idealistic, on the other hand, I showed that I was actually cool.

History is cool, but I am shallow. History is not all colorful, but it is a fact. War and tyranny have smeared it with blood. This blood has confused the eyes of all beings, but after passing through the fog of history, it shows a look of worship to the ferocious mob. It turns out that it is not only the beautiful women who have turned all beings upside down.

I have never understood why the plaque on the ming tomb aisle will describe Zhu Yuanzhang, a murderer, as the Lord of the world. Just like I have never understood why people gave Xiang Yu, a brave man with force, a hero status and worshipped him for thousands of years. Xiang Yu burned Xianyang with a fire, which not only set a bad precedent for later thugs to show their martial arts by burning their old capital, but also burned the precious books and records kept in Xianyang that recorded brilliant academic thoughts since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Nile, which is also famous for burning Rome, However, it has a long history. By contrast, I don't know how to express the difference and sadness.

Don't say that the chief culprit of the loss of academic classics in the golden age should be the first emperor who burned books and buried Confucianism, which was another confused look. The reason for burning books was that Confucian scholars suggested winning politics and worshiping the ancient times to enfeoffment children and heroes. This was a means of flattery by Confucianism, but unfortunately he met the first emperor, a political tough guy who looked forward to everything. Legalist school. Poetry > 、< Book > , a hundred languages, noted that Yi Shou, Wei miscellaneous burn it. ..... Those who don't go, the book of planting trees by medical divination ... "is for burning books. It can be seen that most of the books burned are folk non-scientific books, and there are still a large number of hundred schools of thought classics set by the Qin Dynasty. In fact, according to the conditions at that time, can the people really have a lot of books? To a large extent, the collection of books is just a government act.

The reason for cheating Confucianism is that two Taoist priests tried to find immortal medicine for winning the government, and they were afraid of being blamed by the above, so they slandered and fled after winning the government. The first emperor flew into a rage and robbed 46 people. Most of them were alchemists, but because winning the government also mentioned that Confucian scholars were confusing people in Xianyang, there were probably some Confucians who were involved in the cheating. < p The Confucians exhausted all the vicious words they could think of and added them to the first emperor's victory in politics. The ancients said that three people made a tiger. The Confucians tirelessly slandered the first emperor from generation to generation, ruining it for two thousand years, and finally lost the eyes of future generations, turning victory in politics into a monster with all the evil in the world.

Tyranny exists, but it exists in every dynasty. However, the pioneering cause of Yingzheng only lies in the Qin Dynasty. It is unnecessary to elaborate the unified words of unified measurement's unified currency introduced from primary school textbooks. Only the political system established by Yingzheng was counted, and the emperors of China in the next two thousand years never surpassed it, and all of them followed suit. The title of "the first emperor" is really worthy of the name.

I think that Yingzheng is a better hero than Xiang Yu. It deserves the respect of the Chinese people. The overlord in the drama and Guan Yu and Zhao Yun in the romance can only be appreciated as literary images, and they should never be confused with real historical figures. Unfortunately, the world in most people's eyes is only based on other people's imagination. How can we expect to see a real world with confused eyes?

Like science, reading history brings us closer to the world as it is.

As for me, I like things as they are, whether they are good or ugly.

Because I always believe that true perfection always includes imperfections.

PS: <; Outline of China history > , by Bai Yang. I have read the book for more than a month, and I feel a lot. I've always wanted to write a book review, but in the face of a vast history of 5, years, even with Mr. Bai Yang's wonderful interpretation, I still don't know where to start. Without Gu Xiang's literary talent and leisure time, thousands of feelings are trapped in the chest, which is really uncomfortable. If you can't finish the book review, you always bite your teeth and squeeze out a review, which is a comfort to yourself and a proof for reading this book. I don't know what I'm talking about, which makes me laugh before my predecessors.