从 1 951年全国隆重纪念太平天国起义一百周年掀起太平天国史研究高潮起 ,到现在已经整整半个世纪。开创太平天国史学的罗尔纲前辈等都已物故。其第二代研究者亦将先后老去。从有利于我国历史科学的成长出发 ,亟需共同讨论两个值得沉思的问题 :(一 )为什么五十年太平天国史研究 From 1 951 years ago, the whole nation has solemnly commemorated the centenary of the Taiping Rebellion and set off the climax of the study of the history of the Taiping Heaven. It has now been a full half-century. The predecessors of the Rollei Gang, who pioneered the Taiping Heavenly History, have all been lost. Its second-generation researchers will also grow old. Starting from the development that is conducive to the development of the history science in our country, we urgently need to discuss two mutually pondering questions: (1) Why fifty years of Taiping study