Gu Yanwu has a famous saying full of patriotic passion: "Every man is responsible for the rise and fall of the world."

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 are the ones who eat meat; to protect the world, how can an ordinary man be responsible for the rise and fall of the world?" This eight-character idiom comes from Liang Qichao, which means protecting a national system from being overthrown. It is the responsibility of emperors, generals and ministers of civil and military affairs, and has nothing to do with ordinary people. The prosperity and destruction of the people in the world are related to everyone. The interests of people, therefore, every common person has an unshirkable responsibility.

The pinyin of "Every man is responsible for the rise and fall of the world": tiānxiàxīngwáng, pǐfūyǒuzé.