On this day, 35 years ago, on August 30, 1990 (July 11, 1990 in the lunar calendar), historian Qian Mu passed away in Taipei. Qian Mu (July 30, 1895-August 30, 1990) was a modern China historian. A native of Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. The word Bin Four. His pen names are Gong Sha, Liang Yin, Yu Wang, and Gu Yun. The fasting rooms are called Sushu Hall and Sushu Tower. He entered private school at the age of nine. After dropping out of school in 1912, he taught himself and taught in a primary and secondary school in his hometown. In 1930, he became famous for publishing the Chronicle of Liu Xiangxin and His Son. He was recommended by Gu Jiegang and hired as a lecturer in Chinese at Yanjing University. Later, he served successively as Yanjing University, Peking University, Tsinghua University, Peking Normal University, Southwest Associated University, Wuhan University, West China University, and Jiangnan University. Qian Mu lived in Peking for eight years and taught at prestigious schools such as Beijing, Tsinghua University, Yanjing, and Beijing Normal University, where he learned from friends in the academic world. During the Anti-Japanese War, he taught at Southwest Associated University, Wuhan, West China, Qilu, and Sichuan universities. He wrote "Outline of National History" and was publicly recommended as the best work in the general history of China. In the autumn of 1949, the Hong Kong Asian School of Culture and Business became the dean. In 1955, he was awarded an honorary doctorate degree to the University of Hong Kong. In 1960, he was invited to give lectures at Yale University in the United States and was awarded an honorary doctorate in literature. In 1965, he officially stepped down as president of New Asia College and applied to teach at the University of Malaya. In October 1967, Qian Mu was invited by Chiang Kai-shek and returned to Taiwan from Hong Kong as a returning scholar. He built a Su Book Tower in Shuangxi, outside Shilin District, Taipei City. In 1968, he was elected as an academician of the Academia Sinica. In her later years, she devoted herself to lectures and writings. Although her eyesight was weakening, she still put forward new ideas at any time. Mrs. Lai read them, compiled them and published them, humbly calling them "Blind Words in Late Learning." After his death, his family scattered his ashes into the vast Taihu Lake to show his return home. China's academic community respects him as a "master of a generation." Some scholars even call him the last scholar-official and master of Chinese studies in China.