The Other Half of Chinese History
About This Novel
Toynbee, a British historian, once said: "If a person can be in the midst of historical insights, he must be a person who has gained true knowledge, because historical experience is the richest storehouse of wisdom." History contains experience and true knowledge. It records the success and failure, prosperity and decline, glory and sorrow, alternation and renewal of human society, and it also foreshadows the future of mankind. "Learning from the rise and fall of the past and examining the gains and losses of the present", the greatest role of history is as the ancient Greek historian Polybius said, "The special function of history is to enable people to understand the reasons for the success or failure of a certain policy or political opinion" and "make us face reality more cautiously and boldly". The role of history determines that the greatest value of history lies in truth. However, history is often the easiest to be rewritten, because "history is the propaganda of the winner." The history of China begins with the legendary Yellow Emperor. The fertile Yellow River Basin became the source of the Chinese people. The Yellow Emperor and Yan Emperor who lived here became the common ancestors of the Chinese people and created the Chinese civilization.
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