汉武帝刘彻，和秦始皇被后世并称为“秦皇汉武”，被评价为中国历史上最伟大的皇帝之一。他用人为才，不问出身，以致该时期培养及出现了大量名臣良将。他采纳罢黜百家，独尊儒术，成为了至今的中国社会主流思想。他大幅度地开疆拓土，遣张骞出使西域，开辟丝绸之路，开创了汉武盛世。晚年性情反复无常，而且迷信多疑，致使了巫蛊之祸的发生，为其普遍整体正面评价留下负面部份。面对严重的社会危机，他下“罪己诏”，表示对过失的追悔。今天我们看对他的纪录，不能否定他是一个杰出的人物，但他的功业，仍要在长期的历史上评判，最重要的一点，则是他所开创的局面，后人无法继续。 （ The Emperor Han Wu, Liu Che, is equally called with the First Emperor of Qin by the later generations as the “Qin Emperor and Han Wu”, evaluated as one of the greatest emperors in Chinese history. He promoted officer by talents, instead of family background, so a large number of famous officers and generals existed and were cultivated in that period. He rejected the other schools of thought and respected only Confucianism, which has been the mainstream ideology of Chinese society till now. He greatly expanded the nation land, sent Zhang Qian to the western regions, thus opening up the Silk Road, and ushered in a golden age of Emperor Han Wu. His temperament became superstitious and suspicious in his later years, resulting in the occurrence of witchcraft event, which left a negative influence to the general-positive evaluation. In face of serious social crisis, he issued the “Self-guilty Announcement” to regret for his negligence. Records for him we obtained cannot deny him being an outstanding figure, but his achievements still need to be judged in the long history; the most important point is that the situation he created can not be compared by the continuing generations. )