古史辨 / Doubting Antiquity

古史辨 / Doubting Antiquity is the historical-scholarship frame used by 75.故事新编：骷髅被复活后会感激庄子吗？ to explain the background of [[LiShui|《理水》]]. The episode presents [[GuJiegang|顾颉刚]] and the ancient-history-doubt current as questioning inherited accounts of Yao, Shun, [[YuTheGreat|大禹]], and early Chinese antiquity.

The source treats this method ambivalently. Doubting ancient history can be an important break from unexamined tradition, but [[LuXun|鲁迅]]’s satire targets the moment when philological cleverness and evidential performance detach from living suffering. The “禹是一条虫” scene is therefore not only a joke about scholarship; it is a warning about interpretation losing contact with the flood below.

Connections

• [[GuJiegang|顾颉刚]] - source’s main representative figure.
• [[LiShui|《理水》]] - story where the ancient-history debate becomes satire.
• [[YuTheGreat|大禹]] - figure whose name and historicity become contested.
• 索隐式阅读 / Suo Yin Reading and Interpretation And Overinterpretation - adjacent confidence-boundary concepts for reading hidden allusion and evidence.
• Myth As Historical Evidence - broader wiki issue of when myth can and cannot support historical claims.