黄彰健先生继承清代考据传统,治学严谨扎实,任何学术新见,都建立在第一手史料基础上,擅长以校勘文字作为研究始点。最典型扛鼎力作《明实录校勘记》,已能见其以校勘史料人手,接着《戊戌变法史研究》与《明代律例汇编》专著都是循此路数的名作,使他得到学界最高荣誉,当选为中研院院士。黄先生研究历史问题,特别重视因果关系,因此史料不足时,有时需要驰骋丰富想象力加以推论,但黄先生竭泽而渔犹且矜慎落笔。黄先生故去,象征以史料校勘人手作为史学研究的终结,至少今后几年也难得出现这样的人才! Mr. Huang Changjian inherited the Qing Dynasty textual research tradition, scholarship rigorous and solid, any academic new view, are based on first-hand historical materials, good at collation text as the starting point. The most typical masterpiece of the Ming Dynasty recorded collation, has been able to see it to collate the historical data, followed by “Research on the Reform Movement of 1898” and “Ming Dynasty compilation of law” monographs are based on the number of masterpieces, so that he received the highest academic Honor, was elected academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Mr. Huang has studied historical issues with a particular emphasis on causation. Therefore, when there is insufficient historical data, he sometimes needs to push rich imagination to make inferences about it. Mr. Huang therefore goes, a symbol of historical data collation of manpower as the end of the study of history, at least in the next few years is also rare to appear such a talent!