如果有人问世界上人口最多的民族是哪一个?人们不难回答是汉族;如果有人问世界上历史最悠久的民族是哪一个?人们也不难回答是汉族。但是,当人们审视中国学术史,不能不惊讶地发现:除了50年代初由著名的历史学家范文澜先生提出汉族是一个特殊的民族而引发的对汉民族形成问题的讨论外,对煌煌汉族的研究几乎是一片学术空白。1985年4月22日,在《光明日报》的第三版上发表了一篇由徐杰舜署名的短文:《汉民族研究刍 If anyone asks what kind of nation is the most populous in the world? It is not hard for people to answer the question of the Han nationality. If someone asks the world’s oldest nation which people are, it is not hard for people to answer the Han nationality. However, when people examine the history of Chinese literature, they must not be surprised to find that besides the discussion on the formation of the Han nationality caused by the famous historian Fan Wenlan in the early 1950s, the Han and Huang Hui The research is almost an academic blank. On April 22, 1985, in the third edition of Guangming Daily, a short essay signed by Xu Jishun was published: "Studies on the Han Nationality