历史总是让人惦记。这也是近来历史类讲坛讲座火爆荧屏、历史类书籍火爆大小书店的原因,一时间,所谓的“戏说”、“正说”纷纷登场。有人说,“正说”难懂而且乏味,“戏说”好看却失于真实。而许倬云的《万古江河——中国历史文化的转折与发展》似乎介于“正说”与“戏说”之间,如果非要给它分类,似乎“妙说”更为恰当。捧读厚厚的《万古江河——中国历史文化的转折与发展》,展现在我们眼前的是我们熟悉而又陌生的奔腾几千年的历史长河。说她熟悉,是因为我们看多了历史类的书籍,甚至对一些历史脉络、历史事件早已经耳熟能详;说她陌生,是因为该书 History always makes people remember. This is also the reason why the popular history lectures lectures on the screen, the history of books popular bookstores, for a time, the so-called “opera ”, “is said ” have appeared. Some people say, “just say ” difficult to understand and boring, “opera ” good-looking but lost in the real. Xu Yun’s “universal river - the turning point and development of Chinese history and culture” seems to lie between the “saying” and the “opera”, if it is necessary to classify it, it seems that “wonderful talk” is more appropriate. Reading thick thick “universal rivers - the turning point and development of Chinese history and culture”, demonstrated in our eyes is that we are familiar and unfamiliar Pentium thousands of years of history. She said she is familiar because we look more historical books, even for some historical context, historical events have long been familiar; said she was unfamiliar, because the book