Ebook: 王士珍传Biography (of Wang Shizhen)

历史犹如一条长河，虽时有弯转跌宕但终向前行。回馈历史，还原史实，借以经验，鉴以教训，总是推动社会发展的不懈动力。以历史人物和重大事件为切入点研究历史，历来是史学研究之基本方法，因为二者的点线交汇，编织出的就是一个时代的发展史，是对一个时代的诠释。从辩证法的角度看，事件乃人之所为，结果成败兼有，因而人在滚滚向前的历史车轮面前，不乏三种作用，一则助推，二则羁绊，三则兼有。故剖析历史人物对深刻揭示历史之本源更为重要。历史永远是客观的，但离不开后人的公正评判。历史终归要成为过去，但后人则永远需要以史为镜、与时俱进，这就是社会发展之规律。History is like a long river. Although there are ups and downs, it still goes forward. Returning to history, reconstructing historical facts, learning experiences from it and drawing lessons from it are always the unremitting driving power which promotes the social development. To study history by taking the historical figures and major events as the entry point is always the basic method of historical research because the connection between the two can weave the development history of an era and is the interpretation of an era. From the perspective of dialectics, the events are done by people and the results may be success or failure. Thus facing the rolling wheel of history, people may be of three functions, including boosting, fettering and both of the two functions mentioned above. Therefore, to profoundly revealing the origin of history, it is more important to analyze the historical figures. History is always objective, but it can not do without justice of later generations. History will become the past eventually, however, later generations always need to take history as a mirror and keep pace with the times. This is the law of social development.