Famous saying: Every man is responsible for the rise and fall of the world

Pronunciation: ti ā n xi à x and ng wá ng, pǐ fū yǒu zé?

Meaning: Every ordinary person has a responsibility for the prosperity or decline of a country.

Source: Qing Gu Yanwu's Record of Japanese Knowledge

Original sentence: He who protects the country, his monarch and his ministers seek it; Those who protect the world are ashamed and responsible.

It is the duty of emperors, generals and ministers of civil and military affairs to protect a national system from being overturned, and it has nothing to do with ordinary people. The prosperity and demise of the whole world is related to the interests of all people, so every ordinary person has an unshirkable responsibility. Extended information

Origin:

Gu Yanwu was born in a rural official, studied since childhood, and took part in the activities of restoring the society at the age of fourteen. Fu She is an innovative society, and most of its members are patriotic intellectuals. When the Qing soldiers went south, Gu Yanwu took part in the anti-Qing struggle, and together with Yang Yongyan, a magistrate of Kunshan, he was holed up in Kunshan. When the city was broken, Gu Yanwu's two younger brothers were killed by Qing soldiers, and his stepmother Wang also committed suicide by hunger strike.

After that, Gu Yanwu secretly moved as a businessman and contacted the anti-Qing forces. After being chased by the government, he fled Jiangnan and went to Shandong. Adhere to the anti-Qing dynasty in the north for more than twenty years.

After 5 years old, Gu Yanwu wrote The Record of Japanese Knowledge. He said in the book: "Even an ordinary person should be responsible for the rise and fall of the country." Until his death at the age of 69, he always adhered to national integrity.

"Every man is responsible for the rise and fall of the world" comes from Rizhilu, but the eight-character style comes from Liang Qichao.