Huang Cang commented on Wu Han: "Wu Han is essentially a scholar, who studies the history of the Ming Dynasty, and still loses interest in his later years."
This sentence can also show Teacher Wu Han's obsession with Ming history. It is known as "Tai Shi Gong". It can be seen that his attainments in the history of the Ming Dynasty are very high.
The book "The Mirror of History" is a slightly serious history book from the title. This mirror of history can distinguish good from evil, distinguish right from wrong, and illuminate people's hearts.
"The Mirror of History" is one of Mr. Wu Han's representative works, and its content includes many aspects such as politics, military, characters, and culture. The author extracts a large number of historical details, cuts into observations from multiple angles and levels, discusses the gains and losses of rise and fall, and many of his views are extremely unique.
This book also profoundly expresses Mr. Wu Han's thinking on history and his observation of reality. For example, the discussion and reflection on many issues such as improving social atmosphere, limiting power, eradicating corruption, democratic politics, being a person and reading books are very enlightening for both national construction and personal growth.
Teacher Wu Han wrote in the chapter "On Social Customs": Whether the social atmosphere is normal or sound determines the historical fate of this social group, which was true in ancient times, even today.
I don't know if you pay attention to campus news. The tragic news of "a 14-year-old boy hacked to death by a classmate in a classroom" that happened on June 12, 2023. In addition to the news itself, the reasons for the tragedy behind it and the red signals released are more worthy of social attention and attention.
Why did the campus temper grow rapidly and erupt wantonly? There were multiple incidents on campus in one week. On June 10, bullying at Beijing University of Political Science and Law; On June 14, the roast duck rice buckle incident of Tianjin University; Sichuan University, Zheng Da, and Hebei Normal University dressed as women and sneaked into the girls' bathroom to secretly take pictures. Every pile is torturing. What happened to our students? What happened to our society?
The individual is a sketch of the group, and anger has the original sin of the times.
Measuring the changes in the past three decades from the positive and negative sides of the historical social atmosphere may give us an opportunity to reflect.
Teacher Wu Han wrote in "It is not easy for the ancients to read" that due to the limitations of material conditions, it was very difficult for ancient people to read, especially many books. It is precisely because of this that there are also class restrictions on reading, and it is easy for the children of aristocratic bureaucrats to read, but difficult for the children of commoners to read, and knowledge is monopolized.
After the invention of printing, books became commodities and could be bought in bookstores, but the poor could not afford books, so they could only copy, which was very hard.
The current learning conditions are not known to be many times better than those learning times of the ancients. Everyone can receive nine years of compulsory education, in fact, reading is the most convenient way to change their destiny.
Compared with the hardships of learning from the ancients, and compared with us who have nothing to do at this time, "The Mirror of History" can inspire us.
With the ancient as a mirror, you can know the Xingtuo; With a human mirror, you can see the gains and losses. We are also finding a more ideal path in serious historical thinking.
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