Huang Renyu's routine is a bit wild and not recognized by orthodoxy, but some historical materials are solid and he has his own view of history. Mr Huang Renyu writes history with literary pen and ink, but he still talks about history seriously.

As some people have commented, today's literary and entertainment works are based on the history of "joking" and are the grafting of literati's historical view and consumption era.

Let's go back to the historical fever.

It's hot and always cold. The current historical craze is a variant of citizen culture and consumption, which may have little to do with historical research itself, but with the publishing market. It has many similarities with "Zhang Ailing fever", "residual heat" and "little woman prose fever" which began in the 1990s.

From the emergence of literary fever to historical fever, it seems that the rational thinking ability of the whole society is improving day by day. Actually, it is not. From "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" to "Taste the Three Kingdoms" and "Sixteen Years after the Ming Dynasty", we can't get rid of gags, saying that the palace has changed, deciphering secrets, cooking mala Tang, talking about war, talking about women, talking about emperors and talking about treasures. In fact, it is no different from things sold by roadside stalls in the past. It's just that there are more publishing organizations now, and the consumer demand of the public is strong. So put them in regular bookstores and TV stations, and then euphemistically say: this is a good thing for all people to learn!

This is actually a good thing. At least it shows that the scale of public opinion in our time is constantly liberalizing.

I am more concerned that if a large number of unscientific history enters the field of mass consumption, although it can broaden our horizons and entertain people, it will also easily lead to the emptiness of historical cognition and the distortion of cultural memory.

At that time, Huang Renyu was called "Qiong Yao in the field of history", thinking that he came from a non-professional background, his writings were not rigorous, and his handling of history was too simplistic. However, his writing style is still very serious. Although he was depressed, he was not driven by booksellers and deliberately catered to readers. Today, we actually don't even have such a "Qiong Yao". Many things that look lively are actually just a slap in the face, which has lost our character and is "fake".