On this day, 28 years ago, on May 25, 1997 (April 19, 1997 in the lunar calendar), the famous historian Luo Ergang passed away. Luo Ergang, the founder of the history of my country's Taiping Rebellion, a famous historian, and a first-class researcher at the Institute of Modern History of China Academy of Social Sciences, died in Beijing on May 25, 1997 due to illness at the age of 97. Luo Ergang was born in Guixian County, Guangxi (now Guigang City) in 1901. After graduating from the Chinese Department of the University of China Public School in 1930, he worked in the Institute of Liberal Arts of Peking University and the Institute of Social Studies of Academia Sinica. He also served as the editor of Guangxi Tongzhi Museum and a professor of the History Department of Central University. After the founding of New China, he served as a researcher at the Institute of Economics of the China Academy of Sciences. In 1954, he was transferred to the Institute of Modern History and joined the Communist Party of China in 1958. He was a representative of the Second and Third National People's Congresses and a member of the Second and Fifth National Committees of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Luo Ergang has been studying for 70 years, mainly engaged in the research of the history of the Taiping Rebellion and the history of the military system in the late Qing Dynasty. He has completed and published more than 40 academic monographs and published more than 400 papers, totaling about 7 million words. His "History Outline of the Taiping Rebellion" published in 1937 was the earliest monograph to systematically introduce the Taiping Rebellion Movement and revealed the revolutionary nature of the Taiping Rebellion. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he published and printed 30 times as many books on the Taiping Rebellion. Among them, the masterpiece "History of the Taiping Rebellion", which is more than 1.5 million words, is not only the crystallization of his personal life's efforts, but also a summary of the research on the history of the Taiping Rebellion in New China. Born on January 29, 1901 in Guixian County, Guangxi (now Guigang City). In 1925, he studied at Shanghai Pudong Middle School. In 1926, he was admitted to Shanghai University. In 1928, he transferred to Shanghai China Public School and received free admission for the top five with the best scores in the school. Graduated from the Department of Literature of China Public School in 1930. From July 1930 to September 1931, he compiled the manuscripts of his father Hu Chuan at the home of Hu Shi, the principal of China Public School. From 1932 to 1933, he served as a teacher in Gui County Middle School, Guangxi. He also served as a special editor of the Gui County Records Revision Bureau and was responsible for part of the compilation of the history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. In November 1934, he served as an assistant at the Institute of Liberal Arts at Peking University, doing the work of sorting out the gold and stone rubbings of Yifengtang. In August 1936, he served as a teaching assistant, and wrote "Compilation and Collation of Jin Shi Cui" and "Examples of Corrupted Jin Shi Character in Yi Feng Tang". In 1937, he wrote the book "History Outline of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom". In 1936, he served as an assistant at the Institute of Social Studies, Academia Sinica. In the autumn of 1937, Peiping fell. In November, he rushed to Changsha and transferred to the Institute of Social Research. He was promoted to associate researcher in 1939 and researcher in 1947. During this period, he first studied the history of the Qing Dynasty military system and wrote "New Annals of the Hunan Army","Movement Warfare of the Nian Army","Annals of the Green Camp Soldiers", etc. After 1943, he wrote the history of the Taiping Rebellion, including "History of the Taiping Rebellion" and "Hong Xiuquan". In 1944, Guangxi Tongzhi Museum was seconded to Guangxi from the Institute of Social Research to study the autobiography of loyal king Li Xiucheng, which wrote "The First Annals of Guangxi of the Taiping Rebellion" and others. After the founding of New China, the Institute of Social Sciences was changed to the Institute of Economics of China Academy of Sciences. In 1954, the State Council was transferred from the Institute of Economics to the Institute of Modern History as a first-level researcher. Luo Ergang and his wife Chen Wanfen (1927)