This sentence comes from Liang Qichao's Speech at the Welcome Meeting of Ticket Merchants in Shanxi in the Qing Dynasty: "It's enough for a husband to keep his old age! However, I think that in the world, it is like sailing against the current. If you don't advance, you will retreat. My heart is like a horse race in the plain, easy to put and hard to collect. "

Translation:

Can be conservative, so it's over! But I think people living in this society are like sailing against the current. If you don't advance, you will retreat. The heart is like a horse running on the plain. If you don't know how to get in and out freely, just let it go, it will soon disappear.

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Erudition and academic contribution

Liang Qichao is the founder of modern bourgeois historiography, and a representative figure who founded China's modern historiography theory in the early 20th century. China's Historical Narration and New Historiography, published in his early stage, systematically and violently criticized China's feudal historiography for thousands of years and called for "historical revolution".

Later, he wrote a series of papers, such as China Historical Research Law and China Historical Research Law Supplement, and constructed his theoretical system of bourgeois neo-historiography, which embodied Liang Qichao's historical view and his outstanding contribution, and had a wide and far-reaching influence.

After the failure of the Reform Movement of 1898, he published China's Historical Narration and New History successively, severely criticized feudal historiography, advocated "historical revolution", and systematically expounded a series of bourgeois historiography propositions such as historical function, historical philosophy, attitude and method of managing history.