我从小喜爱历史,从1978年报考历史学的研究生后更离不开历史,但我有自知之明,对蒙古和元朝历史总是敬而远之,能不碰尽量不碰。实在回避不了时,如我写《中国人口发展史》,讲人口发展总不能缺蒙元一段吧,我也尽量参照已有研究成果,再做分析推断。我想,在历史学界像我这样的人大概 I grew up loving history. I could not do without history after applying for a postgraduate study in history in 1978, but I knew it well and always kept a long way to the history of Mongolia and Yuan Dynasty. I really can not avoid it. If I write the history of the development of population in China, then I can not say that the population development can not lack a section of the Mongolian Yuan. I try my best to make reference to the existing research results and do analysis and inference. I think, in the history of people like me probably