范文澜治史,主张实事求是,求真求信,人们对他是非常敬仰和钦佩的。但是,在各种政治运动中,他也不能不表态。而这种表态,在今天看来,常常是错误的,因为那些运动本身就常常是错误的。不知从什么时候起,对领导人的错误,不叫错误而叫“失误”。这大概是中国人为尊者、长者、亲者讳的传统吧。范文澜在延安的时候,年纪并不大,人们(包括毛主席)就已经称他为“范老”。对我说来,毫无疑问,他是我的尊者、长者和亲者,那么,对于他的错误,我也 Fan Wenlan governing history, advocating seeking truth from facts, truth and trust, people are very admirable and admired him. However, he can not but stand in various political movements. And this statement, as it stands today, is often wrong, because those movements themselves are often wrong. I do not know since when, on the leaders of the error, not called the error called “mistakes.” This is probably the tradition of the Chinese people who respect, elders, pro taboo taboo. Fan Wenlan in Yan’an, age is not large, people (including Chairman Mao) has called him “Fan Lao.” To me, there is no doubt that he is my Venerable, elder and pro, so, for his mistake, I too