On September 17, 1935, at the opening ceremony of Nankai University in Tianjin, President Zhang Boling asked three questions to the students with his "big vernacular" with Tianjin township accent:
Are you Chinese?
Do you love China?
Would you like China to be good?
At that time, China was poor and weak, and the crisis was deep, and the Chinese nation was in a critical situation of survival. These three questions of President Zhang Boling are questions of history, but also questions of the times and the future.
Today's teenagers
Live in peace for a long time
I have not experienced the suffering of the life and death of a nation
But it is also necessary to answer these three questions well
Only by learning history
Only then can we figure out where the Chinese nation has come from and where it will go
Only in this way can we better strive for today's China
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The State promotes the unified compilation of historical textbooks
Fall 2017 Semester
Junior high school history textbooks, which were uniformly organized and compiled by the Ministry of Education, began to be used uniformly throughout the country.
This set of books is edited by Qi Shirong, former president of the Chinese Society for the Study of Modern and Contemporary World History and former president of Capital Normal University.
Fall 2019
The high school history textbook was the first to be put into use in 6 provinces and cities including Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin.
The editors-in-chief are Zhang Haipeng, member of the Faculty of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and former president of the Chinese Historical Society, and Xu Lan, professor of the School of History of Capital Normal University.
The content of the textbook is gradually unfolded according to the temporal and spatial order of historical development, so that students can not only understand specific historical events, but also understand the overall trend of historical development, so as to achieve the purpose of cultivating the core literacy of history disciplines.
Xu Lan
Chief Editor of General High School History Textbook
Professor of Capital Normal University
Five core qualities. Materialistic views of history, the concept of time and space, historical evidence, and historical interpretation. What the exam tests, the exam is the historical interpretation. Then the fifth is the feeling of home and country. The common goal of the five qualities is to cultivate students' correct values, essential character and key abilities.
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Only when you know the way, you can know the way
The history of five thousand years of civilization is the spiritual source of the backbone and confidence of the Chinese, and it is also the fountain of wisdom of the Chinese nation. Turning over the history unified compilation textbook, the Chinese civilization of pluralism, integration, long history and endless life is clearly displayed in front of the students.
As one of the most important achievements of the Chinese civilization source exploration project, the Liangzhu site, which empirically proves the history of Chinese civilization for 5,000 years, has been written into the history of the unified textbook.
Ye Xiaobing
Executive Editor of Junior High School History Unified Textbook
Liangzhu its time break is 5300 to 4300 years, and writing it into the textbook can provide students with many intuitive and vivid examples, and can also make students realize that the five-thousand-year history of Chinese civilization is not a fiction, but empirical evidence.
In the textbook compiled in history, the splendid achievements of Chinese archaeology in the past century are presented in a picture-and-text manner.
Crops from 10,000 years ago, bone flutes from more than 8,000 years ago, exquisite jade and bronzes, illustrations, related historical events, and a large number of cultural relics and relics vividly tell the past and profoundly affect the future.
Wang Wei
He is a member of the Faculty of chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Chairman of the Chinese Archaeological Society
Let our young people understand our ancestors, understand our Chinese civilization, understand how the Chinese nation has developed step by step to today, and feel the splendid splendor of Chinese culture and China's long history, which is of great significance for enhancing national self-confidence and cultural self-confidence.
As the main front for countering historical nihilism, the textbooks compiled in history are based on historical facts to tell the contributions of various nationalities in history to the development of the motherland and the effective jurisdiction over the territory, so that students can enhance their awareness of safeguarding national unity and national unity, strengthen the identity of the Chinese nation and the country, and form a correct view of history, country, nationality, and culture.
Ma Min
Member of the State Textbook Commission
Professor of Central China Normal University
At the beginning of the textbook, it is emphasized that it is necessary to implement the country's awareness of security, sovereignty, and territoriality, as well as border issues and ethnic issues, which are very important themes, which should be clearly sorted out in the textbook. By learning these, students are able to enhance their sense of sovereignty and the nation's sense of security.
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History is the best sobering agent
History is the best textbook and the best sobering agent.
The key to studying China's modern history is to understand the bitter experience and bitter lessons of the beating of modern China due to its backwardness, and to understand that in modern times, various political forces have tried to save the nation from danger in different ways, but in the end they all failed.
In the long night, the birth of the Communist Party of China was like a ray of dawn, which brought light and hope to the Chinese people who were deeply affected by disasters.
The Communist Party of China united and led the Chinese people to completely change China's destiny through arduous struggle.
Zhang Haipeng
History textbooks serve the long-term stability of the country and the cultivation of successors in all aspects of the country's cause with correct ideology for the future.
After studying history, especially the history of modern China, students will conclude that the Communist Party of China can change the face of China, Marxism can change the face of China, and the socialist road can change the face of China.
From ancient times to today, from China to foreign countries, the unified compilation of history textbooks records the trajectory of historical changes; studying history is not only to remember one time node and historical event after another, but also to form a correct view of history, have insight into historical laws, grasp the general trend of history, seize historical opportunities, and keep up with the trend of the times.
Zheng Fuzhi
Member of the Party Group of the Ministry of Education Vice Minister
We often say that history is a mirror, and history is a mirror. The key to studying history is to solve the problem of historical view, historical materialism and dialectical materialism. We must have a historical perspective on how we view some of these issues.
Learn history to be clear and reasonable, learn history to increase credibility, learn history to revere virtue, and learn history to practice.
Through studying history, the vast number of students closely link their ideals with the future of the motherland and their destiny with the destiny of the nation, enhance their patriotic consciousness and patriotic feelings, enhance their national pride and self-confidence, let the patriotic spirit firmly take root in their hearts, and never forget that they are Chinese.
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