Although the "Five Golden Flowers" are greatly influenced by political ideology and undertake corresponding missions, we cannot deny their academic value. For example, the division of ancient history makes the history of pre-Qin, Qin and Han dynasties with the poorest information get the clearest, finer and deeper cleaning first; The germination of capitalism directly gave birth to the research field of social and economic history in Ming and Qing dynasties, and achieved recognized academic achievements at home and abroad; The peasant war problem has made all kinds of materials of the lower classes neglected in the past get attention and collation, which coincides with the trend of "looking at history from the bottom up" advocated by international historiography. Moreover, judging from the overall concept, academic purport and operation mode of the historical materialism school in this period, it is the same research paradigm as the yearbook school to attach importance to major issues, focus on the long-term, research on social and economic history, macro-overall research and bottom-up view. This should also be seen and affirmed.

Professor Wang Xuedian of Shandong University published an article on this. It has a conclusion: this is a "false question", but it shows "true knowledge" when demonstrating the false question.