Though its theoretical approach was apparently experimentalism,the goal of it was to give the 2000 years Chinese traditional historiography a destructive blow.

According to the concept of "stratum accumulation" in historical studying, we can conclude his experimentalism method in studying historical novels and its relationship with Chinese traditional textual research, so as to reveal his starting point and the research method.

Hu Shi objected to researching and publicizing doctrine because he firmly believed that the “scientific methods” of experimentalism would solve the problems.

But he advocated collecting evidence with the method of pragmatism, conducting library and writing biography to preserve historical materials, verifying historical facts with duality-evidence method.

During this exploring procession, Hushi established the prestige of the pragmatism method in the common populace.

He combined Qian-Jia Learning of Simplicity and Pragmatism to formulate gradually his own scientific method whose guideline was "bold hypothesis, cautious verification".

The approach of the new experimentalism challenges the view that all observation statements are theory-loaded,and makes the scientific experiment attract the attention of philosophers of science.