entity Updated 2026-07-18 Tags: Historian, Scholarship, Chinese-History

顾颉刚

顾颉刚 appears in 75.故事新编:骷髅被复活后会感激庄子吗? as the main scholarly background for [[LiShui|《理水》]]. The episode presents him as the representative figure of [[GushiBian|古史辨]], a movement that questioned inherited accounts of ancient rulers such as Yao, Shun, and [[YuTheGreat|大禹]].

The source-scoped allusion is the claim that “禹” might be an insect rather than a historical person. The episode treats Lu Xun’s satire as more than personal grievance: [[LuXun|鲁迅]] is shown arguing with a scholarly posture that can become detached from living people, even when historical doubt itself remains intellectually important.

Connections

  • [[LiShui|《理水》]] - story where the episode locates the Gu Jiegang allusion.
  • [[GushiBian|古史辨]] - scholarly movement and method associated with him in the source.
  • [[YuTheGreat|大禹]] - figure whose historicity and name become the episode’s evidence-dispute case.
  • 索隐式阅读 / Suo Yin Reading and Interpretation And Overinterpretation - interpretive boundary for treating fictional figures as hidden portraits of real scholars.