Is it useful to take a history lesson?

See some comments: Many people think that history classes are completely unnecessary. Thinking that textbooks are all fake history, thinking that learning history is tantamount to being brainwashed, and thinking that there is no need to learn things without standard answers.

Don't want to criticize others, don't have this interest, and don't have this time.

What is history? Yes, history textbooks are more about time, place, people, and events, which is to facilitate the study of history. Therefore, some people's cognition believes that history is time, place, people, and events. But this is not really "history" in the true sense of the word. The development of mankind is history, and the evolution of society is history, but how can the core and essence of these changes be grasped? History textbooks choose to tell you in the form of time, place, people, and events. In fact, that is to say, the purpose of these times, places, people, and events presented to you in the textbook is to let you use this as a bridge to recognize yourself, rather than just staying here and treating these as history.

If you think that you have been brainwashed, it is because your understanding of history has not yet reached a deep understanding of the essence, and it is only a superficial understanding. This really needs to be improved by yourself, there is no other way. In fact, the more ignorant people are, the more hostile they are to strange things and hostile to strangers. The cognition mentioned here has nothing to do with how much knowledge there is, but the lack of intellectual insight makes the whole person incomprehensible. This is particularly easy to be extremely subjective, as long as it is different from your own cognition, you will think it is wrong. In fact, is it possible that none of them are wrong, or are they all wrong? History is rich and complex, and knowing one point or not seeing its full picture is certainly the case for everyone. Keeping oneself, listening to others, constantly learning, and constantly discerning in the process of learning should be the attitude of learning history.

Why study history? History really has no standard answer. This is actually more difficult to learn, rather than some people think that the threshold of history is very low, and learning history is equivalent to having no major. Directly giving formulas, or having regularities to follow this kind of knowledge is of course easy to learn, everyone can learn, everyone can learn the same. But history is different. History needs to repeat the process of cognition and thinking. Therefore, a negative statement is not worth learning, and it can only be said that such a judgment is too rude and ignorant.

History is a reflection of human processes, a record of social evolution, and we today, our society today, have come from it. Do you say it's necessary to learn?

Yuanji, editor-in-chief of The Guide to the Yuanji Museum, is a historical writer

Major works: "Legend of the Dragon and Phoenix", "The Hegemony of the Three Kingdoms in the Chaotic World of the North and the South", "Gao Chengchuan", "Love Detective Tailing", "Twenty-seven Years of Yin Chan", "Lost in the Ancient Kingdom" series in ancient China, "Chinese Characters in the Museum", "Interpretation of Chinese Characters in Museum Bronze Names", "Interpretation of Chinese Characters", "History of the Western Zhou in Bronze Inscriptions", "Hegemony of the Jin Dynasty", "Dream Back to Spring and Autumn", "Spring and Autumn Character Stories", etc.