At 23:55 on December 15th, Zhou Enlai made an oath of "studying for the rise of China" at the age of 12.

At the end of 1911, Zhou Enlai attended Dongguan Model School in Shenyang. On this day, President Wei personally took a self-cultivation class for the students, entitled "Lifetime".

At that time, the society in China was undergoing drastic changes. The Revolution of 1911 led by Sun Yat-sen just overthrew the Qing government and ended China's two thousand years of feudal rule.

Many people, especially young people, are confused, have no clear ideal pursuit, and have no goal in life. When the headmaster talks about "making a living", he tells the students how to aspire.

President Wei suddenly stopped talking about the highlights and asked the students a question: "Why do you study?" The classroom was quiet, and no one answered. "If no one answers, I will ask them one by one!" President Wei stepped down from the podium, pointed to the front row and said, "Why are you studying?" The student stood up and said, "study to shine the lintel!" " "It is for the sake of glory."

President Wei replied to the second student: Studying for courtesy. The third student who was asked was the son of a shopkeeper in a boot shop. He replied seriously, "I studied for my father."

the students burst into laughter. The headmaster was dissatisfied with these answers, shook his head and went to Zhou Enlai again, asking, "Why are you studying?" Zhou Enlai has a high prestige among students. Not long ago, the Revolution of 1911 was just successful, and he was the first among his classmates to cut off his long braid. This is not a simple thing, because the Manchu government stipulated that all Han Chinese men must wear long braids like Manchu people to show their loyalty to the Qing court, and they will be beheaded without braids.

Zhou Enlai was the first student to cut off his braid, so everyone admired him. Zhou Enlai stood up, the classroom was quiet, and everyone was waiting for his answer.

Zhou Enlai replied very solemnly: "Study for the rise of China!" "study for the rise of China!" What a good answer! In a word, it expresses Zhou Enlai's great ambition of rejuvenating China since childhood. President Wei didn't expect to have such outstanding students, and he was very happy.

He motioned for Zhou Enlai to sit down, and then said to everyone, "Where there is a will, be a primary school student!" It means that ambitious young people should learn from Zhou Enlai! Students, you are students now. What kind of ambitions do you have? I think we should learn from our beloved Premier Zhou and make up our minds from childhood. Determined is to set a lofty goal in life, and then, to achieve this goal, persevere and struggle, make contributions to the people and the country, so that life is meaningful.

Why can Zhou Enlai have such great ambitions at such a young age? As the saying goes, look big from childhood. Zhou Enlai received a good education when he was young, and he was good at thinking in later studies. In addition, his family gradually declined, and he tasted the hardships of life and the indifference of society, and also saw the darkness of society at that time.

He kept learning, practicing and thinking, and gradually formed his own life ambition, eager for China to take off. Below, I will tell some stories about Zhou Enlai when he was a child. Zhou Enlai was born on March 5, 1898 in Huai 'an County, northern Jiangsu Province.

It is located at the intersection of the Huaihe River and the Song-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and it is a grassland rich in water and grass. Zhou Enlai's grandfather, Zhou Diankui, was originally from Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province. Later, he worked as a tout in Huai 'an County, and only in his later years did he get a position as a magistrate of a county. However, the former magistrate of a county had a background and refused to leave his post.

Zhou Diankui died shortly after he officially took office, and his family business gradually declined. Zhou Diankui has four sons, namely, Zhou Yigeng, Zhou Yineng, Zhou Yikui and Zhou Yi (). Zhou Enlai's father, Zhou Yineng, is the second child, and his eldest brother, Zhou Yigeng, has been working as a clerk in Shenyang. His father also works outside and doesn't earn much money.

Zhou Yikui, the third child, was ill for a long time, and Zhou Yi (), the fourth child, was Zhou Enlai's adoptive father and died in his twenties. Zhou Enlai has three mothers: biological mother Wan Shi and Wan Donger; Foster mother Chen, wet mother Jiang Jiangshi.

All three mothers are very kind to him and have an important influence on him. His biological mother Wan taught him to do things, his adoptive mother gave him enlightenment education, and his wet mother mainly taught him to do things.

The biological mother, Wan Shi and Wan Dong 'er, is the daughter of a large family in Huaiyin County. Zhou Enlai's grandfather Wan Qingxuan was a magistrate of Huaiyin County, but died shortly after Zhou Enlai was born.

Zhou Enlai's biological mother, Wan Shi, followed her grandfather from childhood and often went in and out of big government houses. She has seen the world, and she also supported the portal and managed the family wealth in Zhou family. The Zhou family was unlucky, but after all, it was a prestigious family. On holidays, it welcomed people to see them off and asked for help. Wan's family was well organized and decent.

When Wan's biological mother handles these social activities, she always takes Zhou Enlai with her, which makes her gain a lot of knowledge. Later, as the prime minister, Zhou Enlai was busy and was deeply loved by people all over the country.

There is the influence of the biological mother Wan. Chen, the adoptive mother, was a sensible teacher in Zhou Enlai, and had a great influence on the formation of Zhou Enlai's character.

Chen taught him to read and write when he was young, and he learned nursery rhymes and Tang and Song poems when he was 5 years old. Wan also told him about "Dou E Yuan", "The West Chamber", the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Boxer Rebellion. Zhou Enlai's affection for his adoptive mother even exceeds that of his biological mother. He called his adoptive mother Niang and his biological mother dopted mother.

After Chen's adoptive mother died, Zhou Enlai wrote an essay "Nianniang Wen" and said with deep affection: "Until today, I still have to thank my mother for her inspiration. Without her love, I would not have embarked on the road of learning." "The loving mother stays indoors all day, and my quiet character is inherited from her."

Zhou Enlai learned housework from her wet nurse, which made her understand the life of farmers. Jiang's mother is a "clown", but Zhou Enlai loves what she says.

She told Zhou Enlai a lot of housework, telling Zhou Enlai how many procedures to go through from sowing rice seeds to boiling rice. How melons are planted with melon seeds; Why do some people don't walk? They are always pulled by rickshaws. One winter, Zhou Enlai planted a handful of melon seeds in the flower bed as Jiang's mother said, and watered them every day, but they could not grow.

Zhou Enlai went to ask Jiang's mother what was going on. It turned out that it would only be planted in spring, but how could it be planted in winter? The next spring, Zhou Enlai planted melon seeds again, and sure enough, they emerged and produced several big pumpkins. Zhou Enlai was very happy. Later, Zhou Enlai recalled, "My mother took me to the Grand Canal for her own. 2. A celebrity story about perseverance (short)

The epitaph of the English poet Shelley is a poem in Shakespeare's Blizzard: "He didn't disappear anything, but he felt a change in the sea and became a rich and rare treasure."

Nie Er is a famous composer in China. His epitaph is quoted from the poem of French poet Corato: "My ears are like shells, and I miss the sound of the sea."

The epitaph of the Irish poet Yeats is the last seventeen words of a poem he wrote on the eve of his death: "Give a cold glance at life and death, and the knight will pass by."

The epitaph of Bernard Shaw, a great writer: "I always knew that this kind of thing would happen no matter how long I lived."

The epitaph of Hemingway, a great writer: "Forgive me for not getting up!"

The epitaph of Diao Fandu, a great mathematician in ancient Greece: "Passerby, the ashes of Diao Fandu are buried here. The following figures can tell you how long his life was. One sixth of his life is a happy childhood. In the twelfth part of his life, he had a thin beard on his cheek. In this way, after a seventh of his life, he got married. Five years after marriage, he got his first child and felt very happy. But fate gave this child a brilliant life in the world, only half of his father's. Since the death of his son, he has lived in deep sorrow for four years and ended his earthly career. "

Jefferson is one of the three great American men, and the third president of the United States. His tombstone inscription was written by himself: "The drafter of the American Declaration of Independence, the author of the Virginia Religious Freedom Act and the father of the University of Virginia."

Rousseau: "What sleeps here is a man who loves nature and truth."

Beethoven: "He always treats all people with his own human kindness."

Feng Yuxiang: "The common people live and live, and they don't talk about beauty or broadness. Just for the people, just for the country. Old ambition is unremitting, honest and clumsy. This will never change, and I will fight against Japan to the death. Do my best, I write and I say, bite the bullet, I am me, work hard, exactly. "

Pushkin: "Pushkin and his young muse are buried here. Love and laziness have spent a happy life together.": He hasn't done anything good, but he is really a good man in his heart. "

Before he died, Newton said, "I'm just a kid picking up shells by the sea.". However, what is quite interesting is that what is engraved on the tombstone of this great British scientist is: "The dead people should celebrate themselves, because human beings have produced such great decorations." 3. Urgency: about persistent famous sentences and examples

Ding Yuanzhi once told such a story:

In 195s, an engineer fell in love with a female college student. Although she already had a boyfriend, the engineer was extremely fond of her personality and appearance, reaching the point where she couldn't marry. Therefore, I never give up and often send her flowers and write courtship letters. Over time, the boyfriend of the female college student was afraid of an accident and gave up his love relationship with the female college student on his own initiative.

After that, the female college student talked about another boyfriend, and the engineer wrote to him directly. The letter said, "Can you love her as desperately and wholeheartedly as I do? I believe you can't do it. Since you can't do it, please quit this competition! " The boyfriend of this female college student thinks about it and thinks that she just met her and really can't do it, so she gives up.

As the female college student got older, she went to court to sue the engineer for interfering with her personal freedom and being charged with threats and intimidation. The court finally sentenced the engineer to 15 days' detention. When she appeared in court, the female college student felt that he loved himself so much after all, but she made him detained for 15 days. She felt a little guilty and smiled at the engineer. What did the engineer say?

He said, "Honey, I'll come to see you again in 15 days."

The female college student was finally moved by his irrefutable fire of love, and dropped the lawsuit, and they finally formed a beautiful marriage.

I think this is also a persistent practice. 4. About persistent cases

Persistent celebrity cases

1. Leonardo painted eggs

Leonardo da Vinci, a famous European Renaissance painter, loved painting since he was a child. His father sent him to Florence, a famous Italian city at that time, to learn from the famous painter Buddha Rocchio. The teacher asked him to start with drawing eggs. He painted one after another for more than ten days. Seeing that he was a little impatient, the teacher said to him, "Don't think it's easy to draw an egg, you know, no two of 1 eggs are exactly the same;" Even if it is the same egg, just change the angle to see the shape is different, and the oval outline of the egg will be different. Therefore, to show it perfectly on drawing paper, you have to work hard. " From then on, Leonardo da Vinci studied sketch attentively, and after a long period of hard and diligent artistic practice, he finally created many immortal famous paintings.

2. Sun Kangying studied in the snow at night

Sun Kang, a native of Jin, was poor and loved reading. At night, although I have time, I can't afford to buy lamp oil, so I have to remember silently and digest what I have learned during the day. One winter, when he woke up in the middle of the night, he felt that the room was not dark, and he could vaguely see something, which was originally reflected by the snow, which inspired him: why not use the snow light to read? So the hakodate, especially under the moonlight, became a good time for Sun Kang to study hard. Because of his hard work, he finally became a famous scholar and became an ancient scholar.

3. The beam hanging from the head is biting to the bone

During the Warring States Period, Su Qin studied under Mr. Guigu with wei ren Zhang Yi. He studied hard at night, and when he was sleepy, he stabbed himself in the thigh with an awl, and the blood flowed all the way to his feet.

In Han Dynasty, Sun Jing was eager to learn. When studying, he tied his hair on the roof beam with a rope to prevent him from dozing off and urged himself to study hard.

4. Scientists who are considered as fools

Einstein, the most famous physicist in this century, didn't look smart when he was a child. He didn't learn to speak until he was 3 years old, so his parents thought he was a fool. After school, a teacher told his father, "Your child will accomplish nothing" and even ordered him to drop out of school. At the age of 16, he applied for the University of Zurich, but he lost his reputation in Sun Shan because of his poor grades. But he didn't lose heart. Through diligent study, he became an outstanding founder of physics. A young man once asked him how he succeeded, and he wrote a formula: A=X+Y+Z(A stands for success, X stands for diligent study and work, Y stands for good learning methods, and Z stands for less nonsense).

5. Madame Curie, who won the Nobel Prize twice, extracted a few grams of "radium" from thousands of tons of ore and finally succeeded.

6. Hua Luogeng, a famous mathematician in China, was born in a poor family, had no diploma and tutor, and was located in a remote place, but he succeeded. What does he rely on? It is the spirit of perseverance! He can testify by lying in bed for three months and turning over books.

7. Sima Qian in the Western Han Dynasty dabbled in group books when he was a teenager, determined to inherit his father's business. Just as the Historical Records he wrote was progressing smoothly, he was imprisoned because of the "Liling Incident". In the face of this great shame, he did not sigh and sink, but forge ahead with determination, and he was "quiet and angry". He was wronged for decades, and finally wrote the Historical Records, which is "a unified statement" and will be handed down to future generations.

8. Marx, the instructor of the world proletarian revolutionary movement, spent more than 4 years on Das Kapital and looked through a lot of materials in the British Museum, but a layer of cement was worn off on the concrete floor under his seat. Through his unremitting efforts, Marx finally wrote Das Kapital, which the proletarians all over the world needed.

9. Wu Jichang, a farmer scientist in China, conducted cotton experiments for the entrustment of Premier Zhou. He "eats cotton and sleeps cotton", but after 1 years of disaster, he secretly conducted experiments in his own home. Finally, a new variety of cotton was cultivated, which contributed to the agricultural development of the motherland. 5. Are there any poems or famous sayings about "Perseverance"

Therefore, people will be demoted from heaven, so they must first suffer from their will, work hard on their bones and muscles, starve their skin, and be empty of their body, so they will be patient and gain what they can't do.

—— Meng Ke, a thinker of the Warring States Period.