The sky wears its green color, and the earth wears its yellow color. Even though there are thousands of years, there are eight desolations. The future is like the sea, and the future is long. It means: with the sky above your head and the earth with your feet, you can see a long history when looking at the vertical time, and a vast territory when looking at the horizontal space. The future is as broad as the sea, and the days ahead are infinitely long.

Source: Liang Qichao's "Young China" The sky is blue and the earth is yellow. Even though there are thousands of years, there are eight desolations. The future is like an ocean and the days ahead are long. How beautiful that my young China never grows old like the sky! How great is my Chinese youth, who has no borders with my country!

Vernacular interpretation: With the sky on your head and the earth on your feet, it has a long history when viewed vertically, and it has a vast territory when viewed horizontally. The future is as broad as the sea, and the days ahead are infinitely long. Beautiful, my young China will live forever with heaven and earth! Magnificent, my Chinese boy, will live forever with the motherland!

Extended information:

As soon as "Young China" was published, it became popular among Chinese intellectuals in the late Qing Dynasty. Liang Qichao's longing and pursuit of youth and a new national form directly reflected his emotional writing style. Or indirectly influenced a generation of Chinese youth.

"Young China" is a political article written by the reform leader Liang Qichao in 1900. Not long after the failure of the Reform Movement of 1898, Liang Qichao felt the rampant feudal conservative forces in China's government and the public, and felt sad for those in power. In spite of the ignorance of the scholar-bureaucrats, I resolutely wrote this article, hoping to awaken my motherland and turn it into a vibrant "Young China".

The article is eloquent and hearty, often using metaphors and contrasts, and has a strong enterprising spirit. It is the chapter with the most positive ideological significance and the most intense emotional color among Liang's early works. Liang Qichao himself also regarded it as his " It is a representative work that created a new style of writing and stirred up the undercurrent of popular sentiment.