熟悉中国史的人都知道,为古人做评传不容易,替象海瑞这样的人做评传更难。 中国历史的资料不能说不丰富,但能够成为传记素材的却并不多。无论是正史的列传,还是私人文集中的行状,充斥其中的大都是连篇累牍的仕进和政绩,最能体现传主精神发展历史的早期教育和心理状况等常常被有意无意地忽略了,由此而做成的传记也就只能干巴巴的,象流水账一样。这是替古人做传特有的难处。 People familiar with Chinese history know that it is not easy to make criticism for the ancients, making it harder for someone like Hai Rui to make criticisms. The history of China can not say that the information is not rich, but can become a biographical material is not much. Whether it is the biography of the official history or the collection of personal collections, most of them are prolonged official career and performance, and the early education and psychological conditions that best reflect the spiritual development history of the devotees are often neglected deliberately or unconsciously. Made of the biography can only dry, like a running account. This is a unique difficulty for the ancients.