People used to think that history and literature were separated by 108,000 miles. History is a true record that can be handed down from generation to generation. Promoting national development is the most important thing, and literature is illusory. Based on artistic rendering, it is dispensable for national progress.
In the words of my good friend, history is written by a few elites, and the progress of the times and the evolution of mankind can only be completed by these people, while most others follow the crowd and have nothing to do with the development of history. This minority is like "history", and this silent majority is like "literature". They can't be mentioned in the same breath. One is the minister of the humerus, and the other is a dispensable decoration.
I once argued with him about it, and it ended in discord. I have always believed that everyone is indispensable to the progress history of a country and has made contributions, and this contribution is only large and small. Why should we ignore small? This is unfair.
After reading this passage by Shi Tiesheng, I suddenly realized. In fact, none of us are wrong, but everyone is wrong, because we all stand from different angles, as Shi Tiesheng said, "Follow different emotions, and history is uncertain." Different emotions have different perspectives. He stood from the perspective of a few people who promoted the historical process, while I stood from the perspective of "silence" in Xichuan's poems and silently helped to polish history.
"History only records the great achievements of a few people", but those who look back at history ignore the silent majority who participated silently but were not included in the history books.
The elite promoted the creation of history, and the ordinary people made history more mellow. Just like a literary work, only a dry main frame is not perfect, and it needs the injection of various plots and emotions to make it round and complete, and it is complete with both "soul" and "flesh and blood".
So history and literature do not conflict. History is the main vein of the formation of literature, and literature is a "unique stream" hidden behind history.
Just like a beautiful leaf, history is the main vein of the leaf, solemn and serious, guiding the general direction of the leaf extension. Literature is a small vein attached to the side and extending from the main vein. It embellishes and shapes, injects emotion and vitality into the leaves, and makes the dull and serious history with time as the main axis lively.
A few people promote the process of history, and most people polish it silently. In fact, history is not only an "imperial classic", but also a literary history of life and sentient beings, a history in which a few people coexist with the majority.
"I opened a book/a soul woke up/..................................................../I read the prophecy of a family/I saw no more pain than pain/history only recorded the great achievements of a few people/others said it was silent together.