为什么要研究历史?易江波曾和笔者有云:“历史的功能之一是满足安全感。”这是一个令人惊喜的解释。历史的重要并不是它能够告诉我们未来,而是因为经由历史研究提供出关于过去的记忆——这很重要,它使我们获得了对过去的确定感,使我们明白今天如何而来,继而获得了一种安全感。这就像一个人喝醉了,可怕的不是醉酒,而是第二天醒来发现有一段记忆出现了空白。这令人恐惧,因为你不知道在那段空白中你究竟干了什么,你也不知道自己如何到了今天、到了现在的境地。遗忘历史,导致的是对今日的无知。历史并不必然能够告诉我们未来的道路应该如何选择,但是仍然有一个重要的功能,它能告诉我们什么是不能和 Why study history? Yi Jiangbo and the author goes: “One of history’s functions is to satisfy the sense of security.” This is a surprising explanation. History does not matter whether it can tell us the future, but because it provides memories of the past through historical research - it is important that it gives us a sense of certainty about the past, that we understand how it came from today, and then A sense of security. It was like a person drunk, horrible not drunk, but wake up the next day found a memory blank. This is frightening, because you do not know what exactly you did during that void, and you do not know how you came today and where you are now. Forget history, leading to ignorance of today. History does not have to be able to tell us how the future path should be chosen, but there is still an important function that tells us what can not and