History, referred to as "history" for short, refers to the systematic recording, research and explanation of the past events and activities of the human society. History exists objectively. No matter how writers write history, history exists in its own way and cannot be changed.

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History refers to the development process of the objective world movement, which can be divided into natural history and human social history. For example, the history of the universe, the history of the earth, the history of mankind, the history of birds and so on. Corresponding to the concept of history, history can be divided into broad sense and narrow sense. "History" in a broad sense can refer to all the events that happened in the past, not necessarily related to human society.

Generally speaking, history usually refers to the history of human society. History refers to what happened in the past, and history is an objective thing.

Literature and history are inseparable. Literature participates in the construction and inheritance of history in its own way, which is not only applicable to the creation of historical themes, but also to all literary works and literary studies. History is not a little girl who can dress up, and literature can't "empty" history.

History is also independent of human will. However, history is written by people. Since it is written by people, it will be mixed with people's emotions. Therefore, the historical words we see are mixed with people's emotions.

History is produced at any time, and it is a true record of people's free activities in the past. The significance of its existence is to let people sum up the past, enrich their future lives, learn from history, learn from history and discuss the present.

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The meaning of "history" was first expressed by the word "history" in Chinese. In Oracle Bone Inscriptions, the word "history" is similar to "thing" and refers to an event. Xu Shen's Shuo Wen Jie Zi said: "History is also recorded; From the middle, middle and right. " It is pointed out that the original meaning of "history" is the recorder, that is, "historian".

By extension, it represents what historians have recorded, in other words, all the past things recorded in words. Broadly speaking, it refers to the development process of the objective world movement, which can be divided into natural history and human social history. History is an important humanities subject to study human changes and the rise and fall of society.