The easiest thing to become obsolete is the point of view, and the facts are always fresh

In the morning, I spent half an hour watching Teacher Liu Bo's speech at a table: Zun Cao degraded Liu's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". The title of today's text is the closing remarks of Teacher Liu Bo's speech.

After reading the speech, I immediately remembered the feelings I felt when I read his book "The Wrong Way of the Warring States" in the one-way space in Hangzhou a year ago:

The plum tree near the back door of the one-way space had blossomed, and it had not been seen for three days, and the fine and dense buds before were much fuller, and some were blooming. The weather in Gangnam is very warm, and these brilliant flowers have nothing to do with the cold. I remembered a lyric: Red plum blossoms, blossoms shine... No matter how big the epidemic is, it still can't prevent the arrival of the new year.

Rubbing reading "The Wrong Way of the Warring States", I roughly understood the "famous military expert" Wu Qi, in order to achieve his inner dream, his mother died, he did not even return home, in order to dispel the concerns of others, he could kill his wife.

If these events are true, this man, no matter how remarkable his military prowess, is not famous, but at best "notorious."

We cannot fully understand the truth of history, but if we reflect on reality from the historical truth that we can understand, we will have less blind obedience, we will be more or less calm and objective, we will not go with the flow, and we will not easily become a member of the rabble. Although, many truths in reality are difficult to penetrate.

Without understanding history, there is also a drawback - it is easy to blindly pursue and worship a thing or a person. When the truth comes out, I will feel ridiculous, even pitiful.

The strange thing is that sometimes when we understand ourselves, we have already moved through time.

I deliberately found a speech transcript, marked out the most touching paragraphs, and also shared my own feelings here, only for the reference of book lovers who like to read.

P s: The following dark green font is the original text of the speech, and my feeling is displayed in normal font.

There are many such vivid details in the history books. But we also have to be careful when reading history, because the more vivid the details, the easier it is to fiction. In particular, our traditional historians can say without modesty that they were all great literary geniuses. What is more difficult to invent than these details? What happened in a certain year - this kind of thing is easy for you to downplay, but it is difficult for you to fiction.

Teacher Liu Bo's view can be used as a key to reading history books.

If you take this key to read, you will be a little more cautious about the details recorded in the history books, and you will not be easily blinded by the details of the historical officials, so that you will mistakenly regard the personal feelings of the historians as the truth of history.

This can also be borrowed from reading news events, in the face of those details of moving emotions with rhythmic articles, it is easy to distinguish between true and false, not to be fooled, to avoid "becoming a member of the rabble".

In fact, Teacher Liu Bo's view of reading history books can be used directly as a method and technique of reading history books.

When we look at the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" in shaping the image of Cao Cao, we actually completely accept the image of Cao Cao in Cao Wei's official propaganda. If we make a summary of Cao Cao's portrayal in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it can probably be said that the Romance of the Three Kingdoms did fabricate some of Cao Cao's evil deeds, but these evil deeds increased Cao Cao's treacherous atmosphere and turned him into a very bad but attractive character. And "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" ignores Cao Cao's real sins, which really break through the bottom line of human morality.

Teacher Liu Bo's words, whether he himself has subtext or not, I read more content.

The most important point comes from this keyword - official propaganda.

No official can put on his face, nor can he put a urinal on his head. People who like to pay attention to news hotspots have experienced this. It is unlikely that much truth and sincerity can be expected to be seen in official propaganda.

Fortunately, there are many ways to express views and emotions nowadays, and some so-called officials, no matter how much they try to beautify and cover themselves, will eventually be torn off by public opinion, revealing their original faces, and thus forced to perfunctorily prevaricate the audience in the form of various "apologies".

Some officials were discredited as a result, and even scattered.

No amount of official propaganda can escape moral sanctions for the evil that breaks through the bottom line of human morality.

If we put aside the deliberate beautification and ugliness in the novel, go back and carefully read the history books, see what Cao Cao is like in the history books, and what Liu Bei looks like, we may be able to feel more information. After all, the easiest thing to become obsolete is the opinion, and the facts are always fresh.

The classic sentence at the end of Teacher Liu Bo's speech can also be used as a methodology for reading history books.

Opinions, attached to specific times and specific people and events, cannot be renewed. Everything is changing, not to mention historical figures and events that have long been submerged in the long river of history.

It is inevitable to use the vision and thoughts of today's people to benchmark the visions and ideas of the ancients; of course, it is even more unrealistic to measure the eyes and ideas of those figures in history (whether they are historical officials or figures recorded by historians).

This is to be from the word "facts" in Teacher Liu Bo's sentence to the heart, whether reading history or reading the present, facts are the basis for us to express our views slightly.

February 14, 2022