向达先生(1900-1966年),字觉明,湖南溆浦人,土家族,北大教授兼北大图书馆馆长,是我国卓越的历史学家,也是著名的书法家。向达精通四种外国语,也熟悉梵语。他在历史学的成就主要凝聚在敦煌学和中西交通史领域。傅斯年认为是“今日史学界之权威,其研究中外交通,遍观各国所藏敦煌遗 Xiang Da (1900-1966), the word consciousness, Hunan Xupu people, Tujia, Peking University professor and director of Peking University Library, is our outstanding historian, is also a famous calligrapher. Proficient in four foreign languages, but also familiar with Sanskrit. His achievements in history are mainly concentrated in the field of Dunhuang Studies and the history of Sino-Western traffic. Fu Ssui considered it as ”the authority of today’s historiography, and its study of foreign traffic,