This is what Zhang Kangkang said in the Wenchuan earthquake. Do you need the full text?
Facing the ruins of towns and villages that were almost destroyed after the earthquake disaster, it seemed for a moment that the end of the world was coming.
The idioms in ancient Chinese in China, such as "Landslides and Earthquakes", "Earthquakes and Rocks" and "Earthquakes and Earthquakes", suddenly became a horrible reality soaked with tears.
Collapse, cracks, dust; Tears of blood, cry for help, wait. The dead, the wounded, the survivors ...
Every aftershock thousands of miles away comes from the depths of the stratum, and the heart is pulled tightly again and again, shaking like it is about to crack.
In the face of unpredictable nature, is human life really so helpless, powerless and helpless?
No, it's not the end of the world or hell. There are only ghosts and despair in hell. Dark and lonely. There will never be paratroopers falling from a height of 5000 meters, and there will never be assault boats sailing in the rapids; There will be no rescue March of rolling stones and storms, and there will be no food and clean water to carry on your shoulders; There will be no Red Cross medicine chest and angels in white, no blue-green tents, and no big excavators roaring day and night. ...
A pair of helping hands stretched out from all directions. Warm and powerful, fast and powerful. Palm, back of hand, fingers and palm were all worn off by the thick cement board. Those hands came from far away, put down everything at hand, and used their last strength to move the surviving, bloody bodies inch by inch from the edge of the hell gate and the heavy rubble, calling back the weak floating souls one by one. In the sunshine of the rest of the robbery, we can't tell which of the two people who lend a helping hand is a "volunteer" who doesn't leave his name.
Where there is true love and truth, there is no hell.
After the Wenchuan earthquake, with unprecedented determination and efficiency, the central government quickly mobilized, integrated and personally directed various social rescue forces such as governments at all levels, military forces, armed police, fire fighting, enterprises and so on. The domestic mainstream media announced the truth of the disaster to the public at the first time. The transmission of true information has aroused people's concern about the disaster in China. almost everywhere
Some people spend their first sleepless night worrying about their hearts. Everyone is asking himself: What can I do for disaster relief? After dawn, countless citizens took to the streets and voluntarily donated a sum of money, and blood donors lined up. ...
In just a few days, teams of volunteers gathered in Sichuan from different starting points. The voluntary and conscious participation of social non-governmental forces in the rescue operation was launched in an all-round way. The rescue plans of domestic non-governmental organizations have been launched one after another; More than a dozen NGOs in Chengdu immediately joined forces to form a "civil relief service center", which expanded a number of relief points in the disaster-stricken areas and made up for areas with relatively sparse population and temporarily inaccessible by government forces; A private rescue team composed of 60 excavators and other large machinery organized by a private enterprise in Jiangsu arrived in Mianyang within 48 hours; This winter, 13 Tangshan farmers' brothers, Song Zhiyong Love Support Team, spontaneously went to Hunan to fight the ice and snow disaster, and once again set out from their hometown and went to Sichuan. A modern communication rescue team composed of radio enthusiasts, a volunteer team mainly composed of power paragliders, rock climbing and downhill equipment, members of various car clubs and mountaineering clubs go hand in hand to exchange their professional knowledge and provide field search and rescue experience to reinforce the disaster area; The spontaneous online "rare blood group League" is calling for help around the clock. The "self-employed" disaster relief motorcade full of materials, food and vegetables has been driving into Sichuan; Taxis provide free services for journalists and volunteers who report disaster relief; One by one, private cars assembled into an army of "mobile volunteer cars", taking the initiative to send doctors and medicines and carrying people. Every day, nearly 1,000 volunteers who bring their own food and daily necessities flock to Chengdu to act as "volunteers", including young people born after 1980s and 1990s, veterans, white-haired old people and white-collar workers, who take leave or resign, and help transport the wounded, provide medical care, carry or distribute food and provide psychological comfort during the day. Sleep in the open space at night and work continuously for several days and nights. Those powerful helpers have no boundaries of age, region or occupation, and even don't know each other's names. ...
At the moment of the earthquake, our hearts seemed to be violently awakened by a powerful force. Man can't conquer the sky, but he can conquer himself. The enormous energy released by the collision of crustal plates not only destroys life, but also promotes the soul.
All kinds of new communities, online communities, enterprise associations and temporary organizations established for disaster relief have gathered into a strong and healthy folk force-today, all China people are "volunteers" involved in disaster relief.
I am a volunteer because I am a citizen of China.
We can proudly say that China people's civic awareness is growing amid disasters and rubble. This is an important symbol of social progress in the 30 years of reform and opening up.
For many years, the basic legal concept of "citizen", which was originally used in public international law, is an absent blank in China's political and social life. In the traditional culture of China, the word "citizen" does not exist. China people's "country" is an isomorphic system of "home" and "country" based on family structure. Therefore, people in China's traditional culture are not citizens, but people, subjects, people and grass-roots people. People-"self-protection". People-"yemeng". "Meng" refers to mental ignorance, that is, ignorance. In the Analects of Confucius Taber, Confucius famously said, "People can let it be, but they can't know it". Although there are many ways to interpret it in academic circles at present, it can at least serve as a reference for rulers' attitude towards "people" in history, including its definition.
Let's look back at the meaning of the word "male". In the etymological study of Chinese characters, "Gong" is a cognitive word. It's "eight"-the two sides of eight are opposite. Below "Eight" is a "Yao". "Yao" is the original word of "private", meaning private. This word "Yao" is placed under two opposite words "Ba" and combined into the word "Gong", which means that the opposite of the word "private" is "Gong". Justice, fairness and justice are the "public" of the world. Regrettably, this vivid word "Gong" and the word "Min" with humble meaning never joined hands in ancient Chinese and never formed a formal phrase.
In the Soviet Union in the mid-20th century, the word "citizen" was widely used. The "citizen" of the Soviet Union came into being in the Soviet Constitution of 1936. However, that is a false concept and political label deprived of civil rights. They only have the obligation of "sacrificing their lives for the public", and they are under the double slavery of material and spirit, but they have no protection of "civil" rights. "Citizens" may be deprived of "citizenship" or even disappear at any time at the instigation of high-level "public servants". The concept of "citizen" was mechanically transplanted to our uncivilized land of China, and was soon submerged in the sea of Wang Yang.
The lack of consciousness of "China citizens" stems from the established ideas that have been followed for thousands of years in our traditional culture. Since the Revolution of 1911, we have experienced the progress from "people" to "nationals". Then he changed from "country" to "people". "People" and "masses" constitute a unique and revolutionary phrase in China, and their meanings have never been defined in the law. For more than a century, China has changed from a "nation" to a "people", but it has bred more docile subjects, ignorant people and cultural revolution thugs. Although the word "citizen" has entered the Constitution of People's Republic of China (PRC) since the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), it has never really entered people's social life. This step seems to be close at hand, and it is still difficult after half a century. Many people turned a deaf ear to the report of the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China that "we should strengthen civic awareness education".
Max Weber said: "Outside the West, there has never been a city citizen." The concept of "citizen" originated from the ancient Greek city-state, and citizens enjoyed freedom of speech and action relative to "slaves". The basic factor of western society is the individual, not the family. Therefore, in a sound regime, every independent "free man" with political, economic, legal and social identity is a "national". While performing public responsibilities and obligations, citizens have the right to express their personal wishes and participate in public affairs. And have a sense of self-discipline and a good spirit of cooperation. "Civil society" is the clear boundary between "pre-modern" and "modern" society.
Citizens of "civil society"-politically, people who have the right to supervise public power; Legally, it enjoys many rights protected by the Constitution, such as private property, personal dignity, right to know, freedom of speech and so on. Economically, it is the "shareholder" of the state-owned economy and shares the national public resources; Morally, it has more conscious independent personality, independent rationality, public responsibility and public spirit. Therefore, the title of a citizen has both political and legal identities and is the foundation of a democratic society. Only "citizens" and "public servants" are the legal relationship between "people" and "officials". Only by establishing civic awareness, its corresponding "public servant" will be worthy of the name.
2 1 century in 2008, in the aftermath of the strong earthquake, we were finally delighted to see that the open and gradual China, the civic awareness of the general public, suddenly woke up and strode forward in this deep disaster.
No longer passively driven, no longer blindly echoing, no longer waiting for the order of "organization", no longer shouting slogans in vain. Don't blame others, don't be pessimistic and desperate, don't care about personal gains and losses, and don't consider the "return" of investment. "Volunteers"-ambitious people, ambitious people, express their voluntary personal will through actions. "Volunteer", an accurate and modern Chinese translation phrase, is full of self-esteem, sympathy and passion. Although the word "volunteer" has not settled in China for a long time, it is still unfamiliar to remote villagers. But in this earthquake disaster, it has been the most widely spread and popularized, and has been the most sincere recognition and follow-up. It is reported that the proposal to set up a national mourning day was first put forward by online "volunteers" and was quickly adopted by the government.
Today's "volunteer army" has surpassed the former "serving the country" and completed the personal survival purpose of "screw" and "gear" in the political machine. But voluntarily assume the obligations and responsibilities of "citizens." The "public" of this citizen is different from the "public" and "selfless" public. It's the public, it's the public, it's public morality. Citizens are the masters of this country, not the ruled. While performing their duties, they also demand the rights and interests guaranteed by the national constitution.
The growth of "civic awareness" is the premise for a country to move towards "civil society".
In modern society, many words in Chinese dictionaries have been used for thousands of years. They gradually drifted away and automatically quit our lives. They will soon be discarded and deleted, or they can only appear in dictionaries as ancient symbols for future generations' reference. Words that are still used habitually now, such as powerful person, beneficial person, subject, subaltern and subject, are so trite and outdated.
For example, "ordinary people"-there are still too many people who continue to use this suspicious title. How to call yourself "our common people"? Don't you know that "common people" is a surname contended by a hundred schools of thought, and it is a rambling people who are subordinate to autocratic emperors, have no independent personality and have nothing to do with each other? Since the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), the Constitution has established the legal status of "citizen". We are no longer ordinary people, nor "ordinary people" in feudal times, but independent individuals with civil rights. For many years, the army has always used to call it "the masses" or "the common people" to distinguish it from soldiers. From the lyrics of "I am a soldier, from the common people", we can see that "common people" still exists as the second level in the unequal appellation relationship.
Another example is: "Everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world"-is it only "people" who are responsible? Where is the position of women within the responsibility of the "world"? In the traditional social structure, women are excluded from all public affairs. The world is made up of ordinary people, not men and women. 2 1 century, is it necessary to change this idiom to "every man is responsible for the rise and fall of the world"?
The "world" here should be the world of the whole earth, the world of everything. We are citizens of China; In the era of globalization, we are also citizens of the world. Citizens of the world reject narrow nationalism. Volunteers with world citizenship have universal human values, and they worry and act for all disasters in the world.
Facing the devastated Wenchuan mountains and rivers, the feeling of heartache goes deep into the bone marrow. It is hoped that more "volunteers" will repair the heavy losses in the earthquake-stricken areas and the injured hearts of Chinese people. In this rich and beautiful but troubled land, only by producing a civic culture that conforms to constitutionalism can we find the way of civil society. Only by gradually establishing the dominant position of citizens and truly transforming "people" into "citizens" can our democratic system be guaranteed. Only qualified citizens can build a qualified civil society. On the contrary, only qualified civil society can produce qualified citizens. Although some people say that it is too early to talk about "civil society", it should be the conscious responsibility of "citizens" to call for and promote its early arrival.
I sing for volunteers. I sing for all the citizens of China. We have reason to expect that the citizens of China in 2 1 century will rebuild their spiritual homeland in the new era on the ruins of the earthquake, gradually realize the transformation to civil society, and integrate into the international community with a good image of civil society.