《资治通鉴》是一部史学巨著,总计300多万字,取材广博,组织严谨,如出一人之手。陈支平先生《历史学的困惑》(中华书局2004年版)第2页、第118页分别有这么两句话:“宋代著名学者司马光在撰写编年体中国史学巨著时,把他的这部著作起名为‘资治 ”Zi Zhi Tong Jian“ is a masterpiece of history, a total of more than 300 words, drawing extensive, well-organized, such as a person’s hand. Chen Zhiping’s ”Puzzlement of History“ (Zhonghua Book Company, 2004) Page 2, p. 118 respectively contain two sentences: ”When the famous Song scholar Sima Guang wrote the chronology Chinese historiography, Named ’Zi Zhi