一蹲在长安城监狱中的司马迁，蓬头跣足，就着从木栅间透进的光线，醮墨在竹简上写下：“取源于南，收功于北”。这八个字原是对汉高祖刘邦立国的概括，但是，它竟像一句谶语，预言了后世举业者的道路。两千多年以后的中国共产党人，以夺取政权的艰难壮举，应了这句谶语。... Sima Qian squatting in the Chang’an City Prison, unbearable, on the light of the penetration from the Mucha, Mo ink on the bamboo slips to write: “take the source from the south, received in the North.” These eight characters were originally a generalization of the Han emperor Liu Bang-state, but it was rather like a fallacy prophetically proposing future generations. This statement should be made by the Chinese Communists more than two thousand years after they took the difficult feat of seizing power. ...