No nation will deny the significance of history to future generations. Except for special periods, such as the New Culture Movement and the Cultural Revolution, the mainstream people seem to have a profound hatred for history.

Besides, countries with a long history are always proud of it. History, like philosophy, is the soul of a nation. Those who aim high do not forget to cultivate their mind from these two aspects. And learning history is the starting point.

Studying history can enlighten people's wisdom. History records the rise and fall of mankind in the past. Every recorded historical event is not a simple blossom and fall, but contains complex cause and effect. Therefore, looking at the long river of history, we can sum up rich and heavy experiences and lessons from the aspects of regime change, family rise and fall, personal honor and disgrace, so as to warn and enlighten ourselves.

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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. The word "history" appeared relatively late. The History of the Three Kingdoms, and Wu Yin and Wu Zhusun Quan "read and pass on history and adopt strangeness". The word "calendar" before "history" refers to experience and calendar, that is, a period of time experienced by human beings.

By adding the concept of time to the event, the word "history" has the meaning of today. In order to translate English "history", modern Japanese scholars attached the word "history" to it to make it a corresponding word.

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