How to understand the ancient history of China in the traditional culture of China?

Historiography is an indispensable part of a nation. Every step of this nation in the long river of rolling years is remembered by history, and historiography has a very special position in the traditional culture of each nation. The development of historiography is not only a witness to the development of a nation, but also a guide to the future development direction of this nation, which has a great impetus to the good development of this nation.

First, the position of China's ancient historiography in China's traditional culture.

China's ancient historiography is a magnificent treasure house and an important part of China's ancient culture. Its development reflects the development of China traditional culture. China is an ancient civilization in the world. It is precisely because of its long history and splendid ancient culture that this information has been recorded by historians of past dynasties and preserved in historical works.

Historical works are the most important part of historiography. As a social manifestation of historiography, historical works have many functions, which promote the development and progress of historiography to some extent.

China's ancient historiography covers all aspects of China culture. At the same time, the tradition of seeking truth and managing the world also affects Confucian classics. China's ancient historiography, as an important part of China's traditional culture, is an indispensable part of China's traditional culture and has a very important position.

Sui Shu recorded cultural achievements and four books, and determined the order of classics, history, sub-books and collections. From this to the compilation of the Catalogue of Sikuquanshu in Qing Dynasty, history books always ranked second, which is enough to explain the position of history in traditional culture.

Liang Qichao said in "China Historical Research Law": "China is the most developed in all kinds of knowledge, but history is the most developed; Of all the countries in the world, China is the most developed. "

Second, the function of historiography

As a record of a nation's development, historiography has the following functions:

1, the function of recording and synthesizing the creation, accumulation and development of human culture.

The role of historiography is generally manifested through historical works, which have the function of recording. The comprehensive record of history is the development history of a nation, which records and synthesizes the process of creation, accumulation and development of a nation and is the inheritance of human development and progress.

2, increase knowledge, understand the law of historical development, take history as a mirror.

History is an encyclopedia of human knowledge and wisdom and the source of our understanding of national culture. Through the study of history, we can not only increase our knowledge reserve, but also learn the development law of history, learn from history and avoid the mistakes made by our predecessors.

It plays an educational role, including moral education, ideal education and patriotism education.

Studying history plays a subtle role in improving people's humanistic quality, ideological realm, perfecting personality, cultivating sentiment, shaping and perfecting the soul and learning to be a man. In the process of learning and understanding history, it is equivalent to a lesson, a lesson about moral education, patriotism education and rational education.

4. Special entertainment functions.

In our leisure time, we can read historical classics left by historians and spend our leisure time, from which we can get pleasure and aesthetic pleasure.