This quotation comes from Sima Qian's book Zhi Ren, and the text is as follows: "The ancient people were famous for their wealth, but they were indescribable and only called extraordinary. Gaspar was arrested and played in Zhouyi; Zhong You wrote Spring and Autumn Annals; Qu Yuan's exile is a tribute to Li Sao. Zuo Qiu is blind and has "Mandarin"; The ruler of the revised version of Sun Tzu's Art of War; It's not Shu, but Lu Lan. Han Fei imprisoned Qin, expressing embarrassment, loneliness and anger. There are 300 poems, which is also an angry move of great sages. This person has a sense of stagnation and can't understand it, so he tells the past and thinks about new people. And if Zuo Qiuming loses his eyes and his grandson breaks his foot, then he will never be able to play. He will retire from the book and think about it. Servants are not inferior to thieves, but rely on incompetence to collect old news in the world, test it and test its success or failure. Every 130 articles also want to learn from the changes of ancient and modern times and become a family statement. If grass is not made, it will be a disaster, if it is not made, it will die, and if it is not democratic, it will be punished. I wrote this book, a famous mountain in Tibet, and it spread to people all over the city, so I paid the responsibility for my previous humiliation. Although he was killed, do you have any regrets? However, this can be said to the wise, but not to outsiders. " Yu Yingshi may be a footnote: "Many historians in China dream of writing a general history because of historical tradition. The significance of general history in China culture is different. Our ideal general history is Sima Qian's. As the saying goes, "when we study the relationship between heaven and man, we can learn from the changes of ancient and modern times and become a family statement." "This is a great synthesis. Or like Sima Guang who wrote Zi Tong Zhi Jian, but Tong Jian is no longer "Tong" and can only start with the three cardinal guides. There must also be seven or eight experts to do special research for him. He wrote the final draft himself, and now he still has a copy of Sima Guang's tongjian draft so that he can rewrite it and see what other experts have done. But unlike the current general history, his question is for the emperor: how to cure it, how to mess it up, and what is the reason? Have a clear goal. It is a mirror to learn some governance lessons from history and how to govern this country. Who shall we write to now? There are different views on writing general history, some from the perspective of culture, and some from the perspective of civilians. Each of us wants to know what ordinary people think, but ordinary people have no information at all. Farmers plow their fields every day and go home for dinner at night. What can they do for information? His feelings can't be written, and the person who writes for him can't be a representative. Today, the writing of general history is different. General history is a textbook, but "the words of one family" are not universal, but only one person's opinion. Writing a general history hopes to sell well, so it cannot be the words of one family, but the words of many families, so the concept has changed. In this case, writing a general history depends on comprehensive ability and narrative skills, which is completely different from Sima Qian and Sima Guang. ..... I study history, and basically I talk about the problem of "connecting the preceding with the following". How to change from ancient times to modern times, it must have a whole idea. In the change of ancient and modern times, there is a specific problem of how to "communicate". I don't write a general history, and I often concentrate on studying the special problems of each era. But the concept of "communication" has always been in my heart. I want to take this opportunity to explain that the concept of "general history" in ancient China is not quite the same as that in modern textbooks. The traditional concept presupposes an all-round transcendental view, which, like God, can see the whole history. Therefore, it is necessary to add "the study of heaven and man" to "the change of ancient and modern times". Historians are human, too. Man must be at a certain intersection of time and space on the ground, so it will be limited by my experience of the intersection of time and space, and it is impossible to see God's vision in my imagination. Which historian doesn't live at the intersection of time and space? Can it exist without time and space? "