破坏与建设:顾颉刚对古史研究的态度

Construction and Destruction:Gu Jiegang's Attitude toward the Research of Ancient History

在中国现代学术史上,顾颉刚以大胆疑古和编著《古史辨》而闻名。长期以来,学界对他的疑古思想褒贬不一。顾颉刚认为研究古史应先破后立。从学术分工的角度而言,既需人做破坏的工作,也需人做建设的工作。顾颉刚研究古史偏于疑古辨伪方面,并不说明他不主张建设真古史,而只是从分工合作的角度出发,以辨伪史为己任,其最终目的是辨伪求真。只有正确把握其思想与实践的真实意图,评价才能接近客观。

In the modern academic history ,Gu Jiegang is well known for his daring suspition of the ancient history and the compiling of his great work of Distingushing the Ancient History. For a long time , the academia has a mixed attitude toward his suspition of the ancient history. Gu Jiegang hold that the research of the ancient history should be conducted firstly by destructuring and then by constructuring. In terms of academic division, there should be someone to do the work of destruction and also someone to do the work of construcion. Gu Jiegang＇s research of the ancient history mainly focus on distingusing the fake of ancient history, but this does not mean that he do not go for the construction of real ancient history. In terms of cooperation and division of labor, he deemed it as his duty to distinguish the ancient history, the ultimate purpose is to distinguish the truth from the fake. Only by grasping the real intention of ideology and practice appropriately, can our evaluation be more objective.