One of Wu Han's important historical achievements in his youth was the study of "national history". Jianzhou is the ancestral home of the Jurchen nationality. After Nurhachi entered Shanhaiguan to establish the Qing Dynasty, he strongly denied that Jianzhou was under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty, and falsified, forged and distorted the past history in the Qing Dynasty. As Lu Xun pointed out: "If nothing else is said now, it is shocking enough to look at the methods used by Yongzheng and Qianlong Dynasties to China people's works. Complete destruction, destruction, deletion, etc., the most insidious thing is to tamper with the contents of ancient books. The compilation of Siku Quanshu during the Qianlong period was hailed as a great event by many people, but they not only messed up the format of ancient books, but also tampered with the articles of the ancients, which were not only hidden in the palace, but also awarded to places with rich style of writing, so that scholars all over the world would never think that there were many people with great backbone among China's authors. " In this way, the history of China was torn page by page.
The final research results show that as early as the Ming dynasty, there was a "Jianzhou Wei", and the Jurchen nationality was a member of the Chinese nation under the rule of the Ming government for a long time. Through this research, Wu Han's historical concept has changed, just as he expressed it when editing the special issue of Art History Newspaper. First, discuss right and wrong, regardless of similarities and differences; Second, seeking truth; Third, pay attention to "some records that have been ignored by people outside the official history"; Fourth, "historiography belongs to the people of society." This shows that Wu Han has seriously questioned the official history. In his speech on the first anniversary of history, he wrote: "We believe that the biographical era of imperial heroes has passed, and the ideal new history belongs to society and people." Wu Han started his marriage when he was in Beijing. He met Yuan Zhen, a female senior in Tsinghua. If Hu Shi's influence on Wu Han is mainly academic, then Yuan Zhen is not only academic, but also ideological, and her influence is more profound and powerful than Hu Shi's. Hu Shi's many years of teaching career was beaten out of the water by a vigorous love.
Yuan Zhen was Dong's student in Hubei Women's Normal University. He was in party member in the early middle period, but he lost contact with the organization because of the war. After being admitted to the History Department of Tsinghua, he was bedridden for a long time due to tuberculosis. Yuan Zhen's teacher Wu Zhichun and classmate Liang took care of her successively. Later, because of the change of occupation, they entrusted Wu Han, who was already a teacher of Tsinghua, to take care of her. One to two, two people become lovers.
Yuan Zhen had many exchanges of ideas with Wu Han before his death. She accepted the Marxist concept and was not satisfied with Wu Han's "Hu Shi's View of History". She smiled and said, "Why are you always three feet shorter than Hu Shi?" Haing Wu Han replied, "I am ten feet shorter than Yuan Zhen." It shows my love for Yuan Zhen. Later, Wu Han also admitted: "Yuan Zhen played a great role in leaning to the party, leaning to the revolution and converting to Marxism-Leninism." Yuan Zhen was seriously ill in bed, three years older than Wu Han. Such a relationship would be opposed by the Wu Han family. But Wu Han resisted the pressure from all sides, and Yuan Zhen gradually recovered. They finally got married in Yunnan in June 1939+00.