I like reading history since I was a child. When I was studying, at the beginning of the new semester, as soon as the book was handed out, I spent several hours reading history books.

Later, unofficial history watched more history. Today, I am still following various historical novels. Recently, there are Qin Li and Han Xiang.

Years of experience, reading history for me, is reading casual books, trying to eliminate stigma.

Because I graduated from school for more than ten years, I have never been promoted or raised. I have never met a leader who likes history because I like it, and then I had a good chat with him and appreciated it.

Adult's reading study pays attention to utilitarian study and studies with problems. History is about what happened in the past, with comments from people who wrote it. Therefore, if you want to find the answer to the question from history, you are undoubtedly looking in the wrong place.

Will durant, a famous American historian, and his wife Ariel Durant spent 50 years writing150,000 words, completing a magnificent history of world civilization. Looking back on so many years of research, the Durants' experience is: "History is mostly speculation, and the rest is prejudice."

Looking at the historical records, it is known as "the historian's swan song, Li Sao has no rhyme." The deeds of the three emperors and five emperors written at the beginning are not history at all, but fairy tales. Needless to say, most of the history books since then have been castrated by the emperor.

In short, history, like literature and philosophy, is the least utilitarian. It is not like those skill books, such as cookbooks, photography skills, business management and other practical books that give you methods or solutions.

Aside from the utilitarian point of view, history has many useless uses. You can at least get a glimpse of what happened in the past and know how people used to live and do things.

Of course, these are not necessarily true, but you can get a glimpse of the changes of a race's folk customs, understand its personality and psychology, and thus know how to get along with it.

After World War II, the United States occupied Japan. In order to better maintain the US military's management of Japan, Americans entrusted Benedict, a famous female anthropologist, to study the Japanese, thus providing a basis for Japanese policy. Finally, according to her analysis of Japanese culture and national psychology revealed in Chrysanthemum and Knife, Americans decided to keep the Japanese Mikado system.

These are all metaphysics and can only be taught by themselves. Today's society has become more diversified and complicated, and you can't handle interpersonal relationships easily by mastering history as you did in the past thousands of years.

However, there are traces of human nature and the psychological evolution of a nation's character.

Reading history can't bring you anything at once, except knowing some past stories. But reading history can give you a god's perspective and see what happened in the long river of time. When you look at historical events in a holistic, developing and relevant way, your vision will be broadened, and it is not easy to be narrow and inclusive. If you look at things with a changing eye, you won't stick to temporary difficulties. When you realize the relevance of everything, you will not act rashly easily.

History, a useless book, needs leisure to read and play before it can be harvested.