Who is the author of the Outline of National History

The author of the Outline of National History is Qian Mu.

Qian Mu, the word Bin Si, pen name Gong Sha, Liang Yin, with forgetting, lonely cloud, late name Su Shu old man, seven room bridge people, fasting name Su Shu Tang, Su Shu building. He was a native of Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, and a descendant of King Qian _ of Wu Su, the Great Ancestor of Wu Yue. He is a modern Chinese historian, thinker, educator, and a master of national education. Academician of Academia Sinica, special researcher of the Palace Museum.

Qian Mu spent his life promoting traditional Chinese culture and holding high the banner of modern Neo-Confucianism, which had a great influence at home and abroad. He has been honored by Chinese academics as one of the "great masters of his generation", and is known as one of the "Four Greats of History" together with Lu Simian, Chen Yuan and Chen Yinke.

His writings are abundant, with more than 80 kinds of monographs. Representatives of the pre-Qin scholars, the academic history of China in the last three hundred years, the outline of national history, the political gains and losses of Chinese history, the spirit of Chinese history, the history of Chinese thought, the overview of Song and Ming ethics, etc. Also published a variety of collections of essays, such as "the history of Chinese history", "the history of Chinese history", "the history of Chinese history". He also publishes a variety of collections of essays, such as "Discussion Series on the History of Chinese Scholarship and Thought" and "Series of Discussions on Chinese Culture".

Anecdotes

Qian Mu's gymnasium teacher at Dangkou Town, Wuxi, where he studied in the early years of his life, was the 21-year-old Qian Bogui, who studied at the Nanyang Public School in Shanghai, and whose ideas were radical and who was a member of the Revolutionary Party at the time. Seeing Qian Mu's intelligence and early wisdom, he asked him, "I heard that you can read Romance of the Three Kingdoms?" Qian Mu replied in the affirmative.

The teacher then took this opportunity to teach him: "Do not read this book again. This book began with the cloud: 'the world will be divided, divided for a long time will be united, a rule of chaos', this is China's history on the wrong path, so this state. If nowadays the European countries of Britain and France, the merger will no longer be divided, the rule will no longer be chaotic. We should learn from them."

These words to the year of Qian Mu to a great shock, later he recalled this incident, said: "Yu after reading, Bergui division of this several words often in mind. The East and the West, which is better or worse than the other, this problem has besieged the entire Chinese people for nearly a hundred years, and my life is also trapped in this problem."