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When we concern ourselves with the study of history, we become storytellers. Because we can never know the past directly but must construct it by interpreting evidence, exploring history is more of a creative enterprise than it is an objective pursuit. All historians are storytellers.

What is history? Are we all storytellers because we can never know the past directly but create it by indirect evidence just like the author states? I do not agree with the author's opinion.

History is the truth of the past time. Then, there comes another problem that is how long does the time pass can be called history? Should we call yesterday compared with today? Can we state that the last minute is history compared with this minute? In my opinion, There are three kinds of history, one is from when there is the universe to the appearance of human beings; Another is from the existence of human beings to the invention of letters; The last period is from the invention of letters to present time. At the last period, we can depict what happened with the paper or even some other advanced tools, so, we are not storytellers but the truth describers. In the first and second historic period, we have neither direct experience nor tools to describe what happed at that time. But these kinds of history are still not to be story because we can find some other indirect evidences.

Even in the first and second historic periods, we do not totally imagine the situation of the past time. First of all, although we cannot find some direct experience and some literatures describing the past truth, we can still have some other indirect evidence which are equally convincing. For example, as we know, the dinosaurs lived and extinct in the first period. Nevertheless we can depict the figures and even the habits of these monsters through the fossils we found today. These are some kind of indirect experience which is definite and exact. Secondly, "direct" or "indirect" is definite concept. In other words, something which is direct experience to me may not be direct to you. Similarly, our indirect imaginations are the direct experience of our predecessors. Moreover, they can be passed from one generation to another through lots of other forms, such as ballads, habits, etc.
  
In sum, history is the past. We can describe it directly. However, even without this, our behavior and action will give evidence to the being of ourselves. What's more, without this, the world records the history in its own way.