Children like to read history books. I have read a lot of them. I told him that even if they are reading the same history, they should read more works by different authors.
History books are written by people. People have emotions, prejudices, and preferences. When writing history, it is inevitable that there will be deviations. The so-called “Confucius wrote the “Spring and Autumn”, chaotic ministers and thieves fear.” These so-called chaotic ministers and thieves may be from the standpoint of Confucius , but did Confucius write without any prejudice and write everything impartially? Probably not necessarily. So if you only read a single history book and believe what the book says, you are just obeying a person’s view of history. Not comprehensive for understanding history.
Therefore, it is better to read several kinds, compare different contents, and comprehensively understand the viewpoints of different authors to be more reliable. Therefore, in addition to the official history, you may also wish to refer to the unofficial history. The things in the unofficial history are not necessarily unreliable, and are often historical facts that the official history omitted or deliberately did not write.
In addition, in addition to reading the history books of a certain country written by a certain country, if there are historical books written by foreigners, you can also read them as an aid. For example, to understand Chinese history, in addition to reading Chinese history written by Chinese people, you can also read Chinese history written by foreigners. For example, the Chinese history written by the Japanese, and the Chinese history written by the British and Americans, people from different countries have different views and perspectives, different observations, and fewer taboos. You can speak freely and comprehensively, and you can understand more thoroughly. .
Reading history books in this way can compare with each other, be less deceived, and have the greatest chance of approaching the truth of history. There is a saying that “every generation of historians must rewrite the history written by the previous generation of historians.” Rewriting not only brings new research findings, but more importantly, corrects fallacies and reduces the use of history for political services. resulting deviations.
Lee Chun Eun