哈佛大学的一副对联写道:“文明新旧能相益,心理中西本自同。”对联说明了各种文明与心理的联系、继承与发展关系。清末维新派领袖唐才常在《史学略论》中提出“考古以证今,由中以逮西,博观而约采,规时而达用”。历史比较研究,是通过两种或两种以上的历史现象的 A pair of couplets at Harvard University wrote: “Civilization old and new can benefit each other, the psychological Chinese and Western own. ” Couplet shows a variety of civilizations and psychological relations, inheritance and development relations. Tang Caitian, leader of reformist school in late Qing dynasty, put forward in his “A Brief History of Historiography” that “Archeology should be evidenced by the present, by which China should take a broad view of the West and adopt a broad-based approach and adopt the rules of time.” Comparative historical research is through two or more historical phenomena