Historical Interpretation in High School History Teaching from the Perspective of Historical Event Evaluation

The high school history curriculum takes moral cultivation as the fundamental task, and aims at cultivating and improving the students' key competencies of history discipline. Historical interpretation is the core content of the key competencies of the history discipline, and the evaluation of historical events is an important form of historical interpretation. This paper expounds the status of the key competency of historical interpretation in high school history teaching and its relationship with the evaluation of historical events. Starting from the difference between the evaluation of the current people’s education press high school history textbooks and the old version of high school history textbooks on the Boxer Rebellion, it comprehensively analyzes the complexity of the evaluation of this movement in history. This paper tries to put forward some strategies to train students' competency of historical interpretation by evaluating historical events, in order to promote the cultivation of students' competency of historical interpretation.