"The Great Biography of Shangshu, the Biography of Yu Xia, and the Song of Qingyun" sings: "The sun and the moon are glorious, and the sun and the moon are shining." ”。

These eight characters gave rise to two universities during the Republic of China, one called Guanghua and the other called Fudan.

In 1925, the May Day Massacre broke out in Shanghai, and the whole country was filled with righteous indignation. Teachers and students of St. John's University and its affiliated high school also organized a strike, but the university stopped it, and 553 students and 19 Chinese teachers collectively took an oath to leave St. John's University.

With the help of all walks of life and students' parents, teachers and students successfully established Guanghua University in just three months. Due to the shortage of funds and insufficient conditions, in the first year of the establishment of Guanghua University, teachers and students of the school could only rent rooms for classes.

But it was such a school that did not even have classrooms, and at that time, many scholars came to teach on their own. It is a private university with an open spirit and progressive thinking, and it belongs to a private university where free intellectuals and patriots gathered during the Republic of China.

The Lantern Festival has passed, and the spring is cold.

The school was about to start, and Lu Simian returned to Shanghai from his hometown in the countryside and took a rickshaw to the teachers' dormitory of Guanghua University.

"Stop!"

When passing by a bookstore outside the school, Lu Simian suddenly shouted.

Handing half a dime to the driver, Lu Simian walked into the bookstore with a suitcase and asked the boss, "Are there any new books recently?" ”

"Yo, it turned out to be Professor Lu," the shopkeeper greeted familiarly, "Look at your appearance, you should have just returned from your hometown, and the Spring Festival is still lively." ”

"Okay, old ways." Lu Simian nodded.

The shopkeeper introduced: "You came at the right time, university scholar Zhou Hexuan has just published a new book, you must like it." ”

"Oh, Mr. Zhou's new book," Lu Simian asked, "is it a literary book or an academic monograph?" ”

The shopkeeper took two copies from the bookshelf: "General History of the World, divided into two volumes, priced at 6 yuan." ”

Lu Simian directly took out the silver to buy the book, and walked to the school gate with the box. After coming to his dormitory, he couldn't wait to pack his luggage, so he couldn't wait to read it.

Lu Simian is not simple, he was known as the "Four Masters of Modern Historiography" together with Chen Yuan, Chen Yinke, and Qian Mu in later generations. It is now the early 30s, and Lu Simian's fame in the historical community is even higher than that of Qian Mu, and comparable to Chen Yinke.

Lü Simian's most famous work is "Vernacular National History", which is the first general history of China written in vernacular Chinese, and is extremely important in the history major of the Republic of China University. At present, at least one-fifth of domestic universities are using his book as a textbook for Chinese history.

The Vernacular History of the Country is famous not only because it was written in the vernacular. Its content is also extremely subtle and strictly forbidden, widely recognized by the historiography, and has a unique style of scholarship.

Generally speaking, "Vernacular National History" inherits the research tradition of the Qianjia school and integrates the new historiography ideas of the West, which can be described as a superb work combining Chinese and Western styles.

When writing this book, Lu Simian was greatly influenced by Liang Qichao, and expounded and analyzed Chinese history from many aspects of social economy, religion, ethnicity, and culture. This is very similar to the modern historiographical method proposed by Zhou Hexuan, but it is not as complete as Zhou Hexuan's theory.

The only drawback of the Vernacular History of China is that the materials used are relatively old, and the newly discovered historiographical materials since the late Qing Dynasty are not involved. It was not that Lu Simian lacked knowledge, but that it was difficult to collect materials, after all, it was too difficult to compile a general history of China with his own ability.

Lu Simian is an expert in the field of Chinese history, and he also has a dabbling in world history.

"The first part of the book deals with the history of mankind in the 2 million years before civilization, and the rest of the volumes deal with the history of human civilization in less than 6,000 years......"

As soon as he read the first sentence of the opening paragraph, Lu Simian couldn't help but be surprised, this article is too grand.

Zhou Hexuan wrote historical works during the Republic of China, and his biggest advantage was not only the advanced historiography, but also the endless materials. For people whose information transmission is extremely primitive, every time they read Zhou Hexuan's academic monographs, unexpected surprises appear, and those unheard of new materials are too readable.

Lu Simian continued reading with excitement and amazement, and the first chapter of Part 1 covers Eurasia and covers Africa and the Americas. Chapter 2 begins with the origins of man, the Paleolithic period, and the distribution of human races. Chapter 3 deals with the origins and spread of agriculture, the production of food, and the impact of agriculture on population and race.

This is followed by the second part, which begins to explain the ancient civilizations of Eurasia.

Before he finished reading the second part, Lu Simian was shocked because he found a clear difference between the General History of the World and previous monographs on world history. When Zhou Hexuan discusses ancient civilizations, he has already revealed the most important thing in this book - the global view of history.

The "General History of the World" regards the history of mankind in the world as a whole, and all regions, countries, and nations are interconnected and influence each other. These include commercial connections, such as the ancient Silk Road, which influenced the history of a range of countries from the Far East and Central Asia to Europe; There were also cultural connections, such as the invention of the alphabet, which influenced the entire ancient world except China; As for the spread and influence of religion, it is also classified as part of cultural bonds.

Lu Simian was so hungry that he didn't even eat lunch and dinner, until he was hungry and croaking, and suddenly realized that it was already dark outside.

After eating something, Lu Simian stayed up late to read for half a night, and when he got up the next morning, he already had dark circles under his eyes. He took the "General History of the World" to President Zhang Shouyong, and said, "Brother Bo Song, I suggest that this book be selected as the world history textbook of Guanghua University. ”

"What book?" Zhang Shouyong asked.

"Zhou Hexuan's new work "General History of the World", Lu Simian admires Beizhidao, "this is extremely wonderful, the content is easy to understand, and the historical point of view is simple to understand, which is very suitable for college students to learn to read." ”

"It turned out to be Mr. Zhou's book," Zhang Shouyong said with a smile, "You are the head of the history department, you can decide for yourself, I am only responsible for paying for the purchase of teaching materials." ”

In this way, "General History of the World" became a compulsory course for history majors at Guanghua University. The same situation is also observed at Central University, Fudan University, Northeastern University, Nankai University, Tsinghua University, Peking University, Sun Yat-sen University......

Not only the students are reading, but even the history teachers are learning, because many of the ideas and materials in the General History of the World are relatively new. If teachers don't study hard, how can they be embarrassed to teach students?

In order to reduce the burden on students, the school collective purchase price of "General History of the World" is only 4 yuan, which is far lower than the retail price of 6 yuan in the market.

As soon as the book was distributed to students, it immediately sparked a scramble to read it. I don't know if it's a history major, but even many science and engineering students read it with relish, because this book is not difficult to write, and it can be used as a popular science book for entertainment.

By the eve of the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the General History of the World had become so popular in China that at least ninety percent of universities, including many religious schools, used it as a textbook.

In the minds of history majors, Zhou Hexuan has become a god-level existence and an unshakable authority in the field of world history.

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