Patriotism is Gu Yanwu’s life responsibility and feelings of family and country that “everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the country.”

The phrase "everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world" first appeared in Gu Yanwu's "Rizhilu·Zhengshi", with the background of the Qing army entering the pass. His original sentence is: "To protect the country, the king and his ministers will seek to eat meat; to protect the world, how can a common man be responsible for it?"

The eight-character language pattern is From Liang Qichao.

It means that protecting a national system from being overthrown is the responsibility of emperors, generals and civil and military ministers, and has nothing to do with ordinary people; and the prosperity and destruction of the world is related to the interests of everyone, therefore, everyone The common people have an unshirkable responsibility.

Character profile

Gu Yanwu (July 15, 1613 - February 15, 1682), whose real name was Gu Jiang, was born in Ning, and was known as Mr. Tinglin. He lived in Kunshan, South Zhili Province (now Kunshan City, Jiangsu Province). The outstanding thinkers, classics scholars, historiographers and phonologists of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties are known as the "four great enlightenment thinkers" in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties together with Wang Fuzhi, Huang Zongxi and Tang Zhen. Ming Dynasty survivors.

In the 16th year of Chongzhen (1643), he became a Imperial College student and joined Fushe. After the Qing troops entered the pass, they successively relied on the Hongguang regime, Wang Yongzhao, the imperial censor of Qiandu, Tang Wang Zhu Yujian, and the Poetry Society to organize anti-Qing activities. In the later period, he refused to be conquered by the imperial court and spent his life traveling thousands of miles and reading thousands of books. He created a new academic method and became a great master and "the founder" of the early Qing Dynasty.

Gu Yanwu was very knowledgeable and had researched on national canons, anecdotes about counties and cities, astronomical phenomena, rivers and canals, soldiers and peasants, hundreds of classics and historians, and phonological exegesis. In his later years, he paid great attention to textual research when treating classics, and started the trend of simple learning in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Scholarship is mainly based on "knowledge in literature and shame in doing one's own actions", which is combined with "learning and practice, scholarship and managing the world". Many of the poems are sentimental and touching.

He died in the 21st year of Kangxi (February 15, 1682) at the age of seventy. He is the author of "Rizhilu", "Book of Benefits and Diseases of Prefectures and Countries in the World", "Zhaoyu Chronicles", "Five Books on Phonetics", "Correction of Rhymes", "Inscriptions on Epigraphy and Stone", "Tinglin Poetry Collection", etc.