Why did Sun Yat-sen publicly shout out to his Japanese friends? Revolution, reading, and women? His three major hobbies? Everyone has their own hobbies, including great men. Today I will tell you about Sun Yat-sen's three most interesting hobbies in his life. In 1897, when Sun Yat-sen returned to Tokyo, Japan from Europe, he met Japanese friends Miyazaki Toten, Inukai Takeshi, Hirayama Shu and others. After getting in touch with them, they quickly became good friends and even reached the point of talking about everything.
One day, Sun Yat-sen was chatting with these Japanese friends. Inukai Takeshi suddenly asked Sun Yat-sen: What are your hobbies in life? Sun Yat-sen heard this question and said with a smile without hesitation. :?I have three hobbies in my life: revolution, reading, and women. His witty answer immediately caused everyone to burst into laughter. Several good friends couldn't help but drink from each other and continue talking.
Sun Yat-sen said that his first hobby is "revolution", and this is definitely his first hobby.
Sun Yat-sen has been engaged in revolutionary struggles throughout his life. In order to save the country and the people, he fully explained to the world his character as a great revolutionary who never stops fighting for his life. According to records, when Sun Yat-sen was a child, he listened to Feng Guanshuang, a veteran of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, telling the story of Hong Xiuquan's struggle against the Qing Dynasty. At that time, he showed great envy of the revolutionary spirit of Hong Xiuquan and others, and even had the ambition to be Hong Xiuquan's second best. Judging from his deeds, Sun Yat-sen is obviously much higher than Hong Xiuquan. When Sun Yat-sen was studying in Hong Kong in his youth, after being exposed to new ideas, he immediately developed anti-Qing revolutionary thoughts and decided to abandon studying medicine and instead engage in revolutionary actions that could heal the country.
In the winter of 1894, the 28-year-old Sun Yat-sen went to Honolulu to found the Xingzhong Society and officially embarked on the road of democratic revolution. For more than thirty years, he has been appearing in the society as a professional revolutionary. In front of the world. Sun Yat-sen has successively led many modern revolutionary undertakings such as the Revolution of 1911, the Second Revolution, the War to Protect the Country, the War to Protect the Law, and the National Revolutionary Movement. During this period, no matter how many difficulties and setbacks he encountered, he was unyielding and always took it as his mission to save the country and the people. As long as he has one breath left, he will The revolutionary battle continues.
In 1923, Tan Yankai, who followed Sun Yat-sen around, gave Sun Yat-sen two ancient white marble seals collected by his father. One of them was engraved with the four characters "Give one's best", and the other was engraved with "Death". Then there are four characters. After seeing this, Sun Yat-sen accepted the "dedicated" side, but the "dead" side was returned to Tan Yankai by his follower Chen Longtao. Mr. Tan was puzzled and went to ask Sun Yat-sen why he did this. Mr. Sun smiled and said: "Dedicate yourself to death and die." This was what Zhuge Liang expressed his feelings to Liu Chan, the empress of Shu. I am a member of the Revolutionary Party, and it is our ambition to dedicate ourselves to the cause, but our unfinished ambition will be carried on by those who have passed away. We should take it as our duty to die without stopping, and if we continue to work hard and carry it out to the end, we will achieve the great cause of the revolution. "Die without stopping" is the true spirit and motto of our generation of revolutionaries. After listening to Sun Yat-sen's words, Tan Yankai suddenly became enlightened and often said to people: Sun Yat-sen is so great. He devoted his whole life to fighting for the revolution and was unwilling to give up his revolutionary responsibilities after his death. We can't even catch him!
Sun Yat-sen said that his second hobby is "reading", and this is also true.
Sun Yat-sen was good at learning. When he was a teenager, whether he was in a village school or Honolulu, or when he was studying in Guangzhou or Hong Kong, he was known for his excellent academic performance. He was called "Tongtianxiao" by his classmates. He has won awards from the King of Hawaii and received a Bachelor of Medicine certificate from the College of Western Medicine with outstanding graduation results. After Sun Yat-sen engaged in revolutionary activities, he still read a lot of books and persisted in reading. He could never put down books on politics, economics, history, geography, and natural sciences. It was his profound knowledge that helped him successfully create the revolutionary theory - the Three People's Principles.
Except for simple clothing and food, Sun Yat-sen’s living expenses were all used to buy books. He once told people that the money used to buy books in a year would be needed when the revolutionary struggle was not intense. Three to four thousand yuan, even when the revolutionary struggle is intense, it usually costs three thousand yuan. Whether he was at home or traveling, Sun Yat-sen always brought some books with him. After work, he always took the time to read them. Even when Chen Jiongming rebelled, he did not forget to read when he was taking refuge on the Yongfeng ship. When he left Guangzhou for Hong Kong, border officers checked his luggage. Except for a few changes of clothes and 40 yuan, the box was filled with all kinds of books.
Sun Yat-sen said that his third hobby was "women". This was obviously a witty joke between him and his friends.
Of course, Sun Yat-sen's statement also reflects that he is a human being, not a god who does not eat the fireworks of the world. As a great man of flesh and blood, Sun Yat-sen naturally had the emotions and desires of ordinary people, but in terms of his life style, Sun Yat-sen was generally serious. He laughs frankly with Inukai, Miyazaki and others, which is a manifestation of his character's serious side, but also relaxed, optimistic and funny characteristics. In fact, since Sun Yat-sen married a local girl, Lu Muzhen, at the age of nineteen, they worked together for the revolutionary work, and they shared little and divided much. However, Sun Yat-sen has always been more cautious in his style when traveling abroad. Although he had married two Japanese wives and concubines, they were definitely not like the actions of an infatuated villain.
In 1914, after Sun Yat-sen fell in love with his secretary Soong Ching Ling, he once said to Song: There is a big age difference between us. You should consider it carefully. But Song was very committed to this love. She insisted on marrying Sun Yat-sen despite the opposition and dissuasion of her parents.
In 1915, before the two went through the marriage formalities, Sun Yat-sen specially summoned his first wife, Mrs. Lu, to Tokyo to seek Lu's opinion. Sun Yat-sen told Mrs. Lu that he was opposed to taking concubines and raising maids. If Mrs. Lu agreed to his union with the Song family, he would go through the divorce procedures.
At that time, Mrs. Lu felt guilty that she could not follow Sun Yat-sen to take care of his life because of her limited mobility due to her small feet and her old mother who needed to be taken care of in Macau. Therefore, she did not object to the marriage between Sun Yat-sen and Song Dynasty. Sun Yat-sen advised Mrs. Lu to believe in Christianity so that she could have some spiritual sustenance, and Mrs. Lu readily obeyed. After Sun Yat-sen and Song Qingling got married, they respected and loved each other and became lifelong revolutionary partners.