夏燮以当事人身份所著《粤氛纪事》具有极高的可信度,却一直未受到重视。该书以记载太平天国与清朝统治阶级之间的军事斗争为主要内容,比较全面地分析了封建统治阶级的腐败无能,生动具体地再现了清军将帅贪生怕死的丑态,实事求是地指出了清军在战略上的失误,毫不留情地揭露了清军将帅之间的矛盾,而这些都是在官方档案中很难见到的。因而该书的史料价值在许多方面远远超出了清方档案之上。 Xia Xie as the party “Guangdong atmosphere Chronicle” with high credibility, but has not been valued. The book records the military struggle between the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Qing dynasty ruling class as the main content of a more comprehensive analysis of the feudal ruling class of corruption and incompetence vividly vividly reproduce the Qing dynasty marshal afraid of death ugly state of affairs, In the strategic mistakes, unscrupulously exposed the contradictions between the Qing army marshals, and these are hard to see in the official files. Therefore, the historical value of the book in many ways far beyond the Qing file above.