Author: Lin Feng
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: It is this group of people who, with their pens, through their warm, concise, witty, and humorous words, have written one heart-stirring history after another, allowing us to see another vivid landscape and lively face of human history amidst the confines of classic culture. Reading these words becomes a delightful journey for us, a warm visit, and brings history and the present together. From ancient Greece to today, almost all the joys and sorrows of human history are included in our textbooks. However, it must be noted that these historical facts preserved in textbooks are all devoid of warmth, solemnity, and grandeur in their narration, bringing readers a tedious torment, making people's desire to read far less firm than their desire to forget. As Braudel said, they form a particularly failed landscape in our pursuit of distant pasts. Fortunately, apart from those who compile textbooks sitting among old papers, there are still eyewitnesses, targets, and later followers who love history—among whom are scholars, authors, ordinary people; journalists, generals, and soldiers.