One,
When I was in junior high school, I didn't like studying history, but only listening to gobbledygook. I feel sleepy in every class. I have never understood why we study history. Why do we have to know what happened before birth?
Time, place, time, process, leader, result and influence, evaluation-this is history. I don't know whether history happened by accident or was arranged by people, but I know that when we study it, it is arranged. Even the evaluation is lying there quietly, waiting for you to recite it.
When I was in junior high school, our history was an open-book exam. I can't finish it every time, and I'm still struggling to find the answer to the multiple-choice question in the middle of time. Hatefully, I always can't find the answer in my clean notebook.
I watch TV with my dad and see some historical figures on TV. I always ask my dad who this is. Dad always says, "How do you study history?"
Yes, I am depressed, too! How did I study history?
Second,
There was a debate in the class two days ago. The topic was "Is Li Hongzhang a diplomat or a traitor in the late Qing Dynasty?" . This topic was chosen by our class. At that time, there were stories about Empress Dowager Cixi and Zeng Guofan, but Empress Dowager Cixi refused and Zeng Guofan was not interested.
In fact, I enjoyed studying history at that time, thanks to our history teacher. Although I studied the Opium War for the first time in high school, I don't know why history came alive in the story of the history teacher. Although I still can't remember the basic things, I began to be interested in history. I think all kinds of people in history vividly described the society at that time, which is not only a reflection of the phenomenon, but also the development of China culture.
But I didn't take part in the debate, because, in my mind, Li Hongzhang went down in history not as an individual, but as a society as a whole. And whether Li Hongzhang is a traitor or a diplomat in your eyes, that was a hundred years ago. We should not pursue who is right and who is wrong. History will not be rewritten because of the ideas of most people. No matter what Li Hongzhang did, it was understandable at that time. What we have to do is to understand, perceive and improve ourselves by learning from him.
Third,
History is not just Li Hongzhang's.
What I want to say is that in the process of evolution, history is shaped according to the development laws of human beings, society and nature. We should constantly improve ourselves in the process of learning history.
In everyone's mind, the understanding of each period of history is different. Don't take your own as right, and then argue with people with different opinions. Don't stick to the evaluation of history in textbooks. You know, people in textbooks also have their understanding of history.