The role of historical materials in the study of history

Historical materials can help us recognize, explain and reconstruct the traces of the historical process, which can be more real to reflect history, but also has the image of intuition; human understanding of history and research can not be separated from the historical materials, fully explore the historical materials and informative possession of the historical materials is to carry out the work of historiography indispensable and important conditions.

In historical research, the researcher can not directly face the object of study, through direct observation of the work, and can only be based on indirect materials, that is, historical materials to engage in historical research. Historical materials play an important role in historical research, and they are the intermediary for historians to recover and recognize objective history.

Leaving the historical materials, historical research can not be discussed. Therefore, to fully explore the historical materials and informative possession of historical materials is an important condition indispensable to carry out historical research work.

What people know is only a small part of it, whether it is the remains of historical sites or documents. Secondly, the quality of historical materials is also limited. Because the recorders and writers of historical documents are subject to the constraints of multiple subjective and objective factors, such as epoch, class, personal insight, and degree of knowledge, all kinds of documents have different degrees of one-sidedness.