Xiong Lingdiao／Writing

Editor's Note: It's another year of golden autumn, and the country is filled with the flavor of celebration. In this celebratory moment, people choose to travel to reflect the rising material level and the fruits of labor of the Chinese nation. However, at some point, the National Day has been reduced to a "Golden Week", and people have gradually forgotten the painful history of the 60th anniversary of the founding of New China. At the time of entertainment and leisure, people should also appropriate reminiscence of history, reintroduce the patriotic spirit.

Patriotism is in my blood.

At the end of the 19th century, the mountains and rivers were shattered, officials became corrupt, and the Qing government kept signing unequal treaties with Western powers. The Eight-Power Allied Forces burned down the Yuanmingyuan, that day people recalled the fear of not having a home country, China's daughters for the first time in a large area of modernization of the awakening of the "patriotic" consciousness, people have never so much as longed for a prosperous and strong country, so that belongs to the people of China's land will no longer be trampled on at will, do not have to have a face because of the children of China in the world in all walks of life We will not be discriminated against in all walks of life in the world because of our Chinese faces.

In 1895, Dr. Sun Yat-sen founded the Xing Zhong Hui in Hong Kong. Hong Kong became the birthplace and incubation center of the earliest patriotic trend in China, laying the foundation for the overthrow of the anti-feudal dynasty and the construction of a beautiful and harmonious new China. Since then, Hong Kong has been an indispensable part of China's patriotic culture, constantly helping to promote patriotic thinking.

Hong Kong as the cradle of patriotic thinking. Not only did it utilize the advantage of the port to provide materials for China's overthrow of feudal rule, but it also nurtured countless outstanding patriots.In 1911, this group of patriotic young people who were full of the desire to build up the motherland and seek eternal happiness for all people in the world fired the first shot of the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation in Guangzhou. This shot is very sad, more than 120 people arms wrapped in white scarves, the battle to the end of the only one left Huang Xing. Yuexiu Mountain, under the red granite has become the last home of the martyrs. Some of them were from good families, and some of them had just had children. They said, "I am willing to die for 40,000,000 compatriots, only wishing that dictatorship will never be seen in China." Known as one of the 72 martyrs of the Guangzhou Uprising Huanghuagang, Lin Jiemin left a sad posthumous book, "The Book with My Wife", which said that because he loved his wife deeply and felt the greatness of love, he hoped that everyone in the world could enjoy the happiness of love in the peaceful years. Lin Juemin's family is superior, fluent in many languages, instrumentation, he could have enjoyed a peaceful and quiet life, the year of the shooting, Lin Juemin was only 24 years old.

No one is afraid of death, and every human life is the most precious treasure."If my death can awaken the world that has been numbed by slavery, and can startle the people who do not know what tranquility is, the value of that sacrifice also makes me cry with joy." The woman heroine Qiu Jin's death at the execution ground caused a great sensation in the late Qing Dynasty. The Shenzhou Daily used all its resources in Zhejiang Province to report the news of the death of Qiu Jin under women's politics in a dim country. Subsequently, all the media in Shanghai, the capital of public opinion at the time, issued strong protests and elegies. "There will be bloodshed for the revolution to succeed!" The words of Qiu Jin, who could have left, before she died so generously, were words of great righteousness, and that blood was poured out with patriotic conviction.

When the first shot of the Xinhai Revolution was fired, the people never stopped fighting against the anti-feudal forces, which was the people's desire to have independence and autonomy, and to have a peaceful and strong motherland. From Guangzhou to Wuchang and all over the country, the small mass in the blood of theThe flame of "patriotism" eventually burned on every inch of the land.

The victory of the Xinhai Revolution unchained the people from the shackles imposed on them by the feudal dynasty for thousands of years. People were full of expectations for the motherland's tomorrow, and yearned for the road to prosperity. However, the newly-established regime was still corrupt, the warlords and bureaucrats continued to exploit the people, and a pair of hands reaching out to the people continued to"Legitimate" greed. All the lords and feudal lords encircle the land and absorb the tax, and the beautiful mountains and rivers are still being spoiled, and in the face of foreign invasion, they also retreat for the sake of selfishness.

Time and again, the slogan of representing the people has become a deeper level of exploitation. Any political party that is false and changes its name without abandoning the dregs will never be embraced and supported, and the never-extinguished patriotic flame will continue to light up the darkness.

Dr SUN Yat-sen and other patriotic heroes of the older generation overthrew the feudal rule and established a modernized patriotic spirit. After the Xinhai Revolution, which was nurtured by Hong Kong, the people, faced with the messy new regime, had a strong desire for theThe meaning of "patriotism" has been further realized, and it is not "building up the country, and whoever is the president will be the same." Patriotism is a responsibility; it is contributing one's efforts to enable the people of the world to meet their demands and to keep the country on the right track.

The inheritors of the spirit of the Xinhai Revolution joined the Communist Party of China (CPC), and no matter how the words are presented, there is no denying that this group of new patriots built up an unprecedented egalitarian regime at that time, resolved the deep-rooted conflicts of the land system, and straightened the back of the working and peasant classes, which had been disadvantaged for thousands of years. The Communist Party was not an organization that appeared out of thin air, but a group of countless young people with high patriotic consciousness after the Xinhai Revolution.

Patriotism can create the greatest power on earth, from overthrowing the Qing government, to achieving victory in the war against Japan, to winning the civil war between the Communist Party of China. Patriotism can realize the victory of the few over the many and the weak over the strong, can cross the generation difference of weapons and ignore the benefits of money. Because patriotism is a kind of eternal belief buried in the heart of every human being, it will never be destroyed, and will only create strength in a continuous stream.

invulnerable"Patriotism."

The founding of the new China, which represents the will of the people, is still subject to numerous external crises and challenges. Because of the weak foundation of the country, the Western powers still keep a close eye on this960 square kilometers of land.

The Chinese people did not really stand up to the inspiring proclamation on Tiananmen Square 67 years ago. China, caught in the middle of the Cold War between the United States and Russia, is still at the mercy of and threatened by the great powers. "Only by realizing a military power as soon as possible can China say goodbye to the years of being carved up by the great powers." In those years, the research and development of the "two bombs and one star" was a matter of life and death for the motherland once again.

In the winter of 1968, a small airplane crashed as it was about to land. People who heard the loud noise quickly felt the scene of the incident. In the cornfield where the accident happened, the air was filled with the smell of burning, the wreckage of the airplane was scattered all over the place, and blood and flesh were blurred in various places. In the scattered bones of the scene, people were surprised to find in the distance there are two bodies embracing each other, two bodies have long been completely disfigured, and even parts of the body have been mutilated. However, the upper bodies of the corpses were extremely close together, and the soldiers involved recalled that this completely terrified them, and that they separated them with such force that it was like breaking open a large piece of charcoal.

When the "boom" finally separated them, everyone's head immediately buzzed, a blank, as if time is frozen, everyone can not say a word, because after separating them, they were surprised to find that the two bodies in the middle of the chest, is a leather briefcase, although a little charred, but in the two embracing the body is still intact bodies remained intact, and when opened: a thermonuclear missile test data file was intact. It was later learned that the two bodies were Guo Shaohuai, then deputy director of the Institute of Mechanics, and his driver, Mou Fangdong.

in order toThe "surviving" experimental data on thermonuclear missiles eased China's acute international crisis at that time. On the 22nd day after the plane crash, China's thermonuclear missile experiment was successful, followed by the successful launch of China's first artificial satellite, and from then on, external powers no longer dared to attack China.

travel back in timeIn the 21st century, the country is now at peace, children can be heard laughing heartily in playgrounds, and classrooms echo with the sound of reading aloud. "I die for all the children." Qiu Jin's dream of a new China has finally come true. Today, a newlywed couple walks into the wedding hall, they no longer need to be tormented by war and separated from their wives. "It is because of feeling the preciousness of love between husband and wife that I look to all people in the world to experience this happiness." Lin Juemin's expectation of a peaceful and prosperous world has already come true. At present, to catch up with the United Kingdom and the United States is being realized step by step, the children of China no longer need to be angry for the Treaty of Versailles; our children no longer need to be born with a Chinese face and suffered discrimination, because the country behind them is strong.

Now, we live in the formerIn the "dream", this is the fruit of the great righteousness of the previous generation to give up their lives. 2016, the so-called National Day, is no longer a celebration of the birthday of the feudal emperor, at this moment, we are proud of the joy of hand in hand for the establishment of a rich and strong motherland!

Why do you love your country?

Once upon a time, the hot-blooded young people in the 1911 Revolution and the martyrs and soldiers in the War of Resistance against Japan longed for a stable life, but after their dreams were realized, the legacy of theThe spirit of the obsession with "building a vibrant motherland" is becoming more and more diluted.

Contemporary people are becoming more and more blurred by the recent history of poverty and weakness, gradually forgetting how hard-won the tranquility of the present is. They have forgotten the pain of losing their husbands and children when the great powers partitioned China, the sadness of mothers sending their children off to war, and the poverty of hunger and cold. Instead, they turn to scoff at the fruits of the moment and ridicule them without screening; negative rumors"Consciously forwarding", criticizing social conflicts with a mouthful of words; being loyal to private interests and disregarding the national interests in times of crisis and turmoil. As Hong Kong, the cradle of modern patriotic thinking, has even seen the wind of Hong Kong independence and the tide of illegal occupation of the Central Authorities in recent years. Imagine how distressed Dr SUN Yat-sen, a selfless revolutionary of the older generation, would have been when he saw such a situation. No one feels ashamed of themselves for wantonly spoiling the prosperity of the Motherland which the predecessors have brought back with their lives.

ifIn the nineteenth century, the world was numbed by years of slavery. In the 21st century, people have forgotten what "patriotism" is in the greenhouse. People call the monitoring of public opinion and standing on the moral high ground to criticize the current society patriotic, but do not say a word about the construction of opinions and reform programs; people call the riotous collective external behavior patriotic, and words and deeds are full of blindness, double standard hypocrisy, in order to give vent to the emotions of the first.

The students will accumulate from the books"Patriotic" good words and phrases moved to the test paper, has completely lost the active expression of love for the motherland language organization, "Gouli country to life and death." Such a heartfelt words of pride and arrogance fear that it is no longer difficult to get out of the mouth from the youth.

And in contrast to the waning of naked patriotic fervor, born of the lack of popularization of patriotic education"Patriotic thieves" are even more terrible, they are patriotic in the first place, to fulfill the reality of harming the country, but do not know it; list of patriotic name, the practice of harming the country, for their own profit.

Some scholars have likened the fading patriotism as spiritual"Disarm". The ancient Roman Empire, which shone on the continents of Europe, Asia and Africa, and stood at the top of the Western world, did not know what "patriotism" was, and at a certain point in the distribution of benefits, greed without spiritual constraints led to the rapid division of the Roman Empire and its decline.

In the 13th century, Genghis Khan commanded his army to the Arctic Circle in Siberia, and his iron horse trod across 35 million square kilometers of land area, but this glorious dynasty was only a blink of an eye in Chinese civilization, and disappeared in the long river of history. Thousands of years of human history have taught us that societies lacking national beliefs and weak national cohesion eventually perish. Whether poor or rich, when people begin to forget the sense of national honor, the motherland is already teetering on the brink of disintegration.

Patriotism, what a beautiful word. She is a belief that makes life glitter; she is a greatness that paves the way for the dignity of future generations; she is a warmth that gives dependence to souls in hunger and cold.

In 2012, then President Hu Jintao in the g20 summit, when all the heads of state did not realize that the national flag pasted on the ground will be trampled on after the dispersal of the scene, President Hu will be the Chinese flag carefully in the arms; 1968, China suffered from the threat of external forces, about to once again the survival of the occasion, Guo Yonghuai with his body to resist the explosion of the fire and guard the most important military documents; 1948, Dong Cunrui picked up the explosive packet for the sake of harmony and beauty of the new China, and jumped to the enemy bunker at that moment his body turned into the most wonderful fireworks; 1941, Wolf tooth tooth, jumped to the enemy bunker. In 1948, in order to harmonize the beautiful new China, Dong Cunrui picked up the explosive packets, defiantly to the enemy bunker leap, at that moment his body into the most wonderful fireworks; 1941, the Wolf Tooth Mountain five brave men toward the Japanese devils to finish the last ammunition of the heroic sacrifice, the dignity of China's daughters and the dignity of the best show. Can these patriotic poems still move the heart?

When patriotism is gone, China will once again face the pain of its demise. WhenOnce again, the social system is dominated by "self-interest above all else", which will lead to another round of betrayal of the country for the sake of glory. Patriotism is for the hundreds of millions of Chinese children to enjoy peace and quiet; for young people to be able to freely pursue marriage and love; for parents to be able to enjoy a peaceful old age. Patriotism is the power that can transcend everything, and can turn corruption into a miracle. When everyone retains the blood of patriotic beliefs, this country will surely flourish.

China today is greater than at any other time in its history. The new China is no longer24 history of simple dynastic change, the change of sovereignty in an agrarian society. The celebration of a nation is not the birth of an emperor, but the great commemoration of a nation."The ploughman has his field, the homeowner has his house, and the people live in peace and work in contentment." Today's China, with its 56 ethnic groups truly united as one, is closer than at any other time in its history to defining what it means to be prosperous and strong.

This is Motherland's first67th birthday, the whole country rejoices and celebrates together; it is the 67th birthday of Motherland, the five-star red flag flutters on the earth, serenity and peace; it is the 67th birthday of Motherland, the General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee and President Xi Jinping said:"Now, we are closer than at any time in history to the goal of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and we are more confident and capable of realizing this goal than at any time in history."

However, not everyone is grateful for this hard-won gain. People take the contradictions that exist in society, exaggerate them, magnify them, and incite them into"The degeneration of society" and "the sorrow of the nation". Many people take the problems of society as a legitimate excuse for personal "unpatriotism". Countless public opinions have time and again crushed the spiritual backbone, applauding articles that dismantle the spiritual consensus of the Chinese people and spurning those that revitalize patriotism.

The news media opened more and more negative windows to the public, turning a blind eye to the bare heart guarding the border, ignoring the firefighters nervously on standby in the army on New Year's Eve, and failing to understand the criminal investigation that sets the suspect as the wallpaper of the cell phone; the media preferred to focus the camera on the city manager beating up the people, but were unwilling to give the kind-hearted city law enforcers who collected the stalls on behalf of the grannies more than a single shot. The audience was even more enthralled and clamored for more.

Today's patriotism, has long changed the quality of the new generation of young people will be separated from the country in the people, will be separated from the country in the party. I do not know, they love the bright colors of the five-starred red flag, or empty of a name calledThe shell of the name "China". What is a nation? Is the national unity established by the great fruit, she contains the labor of every citizen, is the cultural container across a thousand Chinese treasures, is the embodiment of national wisdom. Patriotism is the love of Chinese culture, the love of the Chinese people, the love of Chinese wisdom. Patriotism, is for the Chinese culture can continue to inherit, is for the Chinese people can survive better, is for the Chinese wisdom can be renowned in the world, in order to sacrifice self-interest for these goals, do not fear oppression and test. And how many people today have inherited the selfless spirit of their Xinhai predecessors?

It is true that China today is not perfect, but no humanistic society is perfect. Patriotism is not criticism, but more practical planning. Patriotism is not extremism; it is not a delusional attempt to constantly subvert, but to constantly optimize and improve.

It is true that the rule of law in China today is still backward, poverty still exists, and class oppression is scattered in most corners. But the darkness is not spreading day by day. Today, the fight against corruption is getting stronger and stronger, the rule of law is getting more and more comprehensive, the people's security is getting richer and richer, and we are getting closer and closer to building a moderately affluent society in all aspects. Today's China is different from the Qing government, different fromIn 24 years of history, she is progressing and changing day by day, and the country is getting "older" and "more dynamic"! Day by day, she becomes more energetic and hopeful, and such a mother deserves to be honored and guarded. Today, let us say Happy Birthday, Mother!