Famous quotes about serving the country with one’s own life

Today’s mission is to practice justice and become benevolent, and flowers of freedom are planted all over the world. ——Chen Yi's "Three Chapters of Meiling"

On the day when Yipo returns, the spiritual flag can be seen in the sky. ——Xia Wanchun's "Farewell to the Clouds"

Live as a hero, and die as a ghost. ——Li Qingzhao's "Summer Quatrains"

Since ancient times, no one has died, leaving a loyal heart to illuminate history. ——Wen Tianxiang's "Crossing the Lingding Ocean"

Treat death as if it were home. ——Sima Qian

It doesn’t matter if you behead, as long as the principle is true. Kill Xia Minghan and the people who came after him. ——Xia Minghan

If you only care about the life and death of the country, why should you avoid it due to misfortunes and blessings? - Lin Zexu

Everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the country - Gu Yanwu

About Examples of famous people who dedicated their lives to serving the country

Jubo Xun visited his friends

Jubo Xun went to a distant place to visit his sick friend, and happened to encounter the Huns coming to attack the city. The friend said to Ju Bo: "I am about to die, you should leave quickly!" Xun Ju Bo said: "I came from afar to visit you, but you asked me to leave; how can I, Xun Ju Bo, corrupt morality and beg for life? Can it be done?" When the rebels arrived, he asked Jubo Xun: "As soon as the army arrived, everyone in the city fled. Who are you to dare to stay here alone?" Jubo Xun replied: "My friend is seriously ill. , I can't bear to leave him, I would rather trade my life for his!" The Huns heard this and said to each other: "We unjust people have actually invaded a moral country!" So they adjusted their attitude. The army returned, and the whole city was saved.

Tan Sitong

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, after the failure of the Reform Movement of 1898, Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao fled to Japan. Tan Sitong "had the intention to kill the thief, but was unable to save his life". He firmly believed that "if there is no traveler, there is no plan for the future; if there is no dead, there is no reward for the Holy Lord." He went to death calmly, leaving behind the famous line "I will smile to the sky from the side of my sword, leaving my liver and gallbladder intact."

Su Wu

The story of Su Wu shepherding sheep is well known to all women and children. After Su Wu was detained by the Xiongnu, the Xiongnu nobles first lured Su Wu with fame and fortune, and then threatened him with severe torture. But Su Wu was always upright and would rather die than surrender. The Xiongnu nobles had nothing to do, so they "moved to the uninhabited place on the North Sea of ??Wu". Su Wu "digs up wild rats, removes the grass and eats them". In such a difficult environment, he still relied on the banner of the Han Dynasty and refused to surrender. He was in his prime when he went on the mission, and by the time he returned to the Han Dynasty, his beard and hair were all white. He became a famous figure in the history of our country who upheld national integrity.

Yurang

At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, the doctor Zhao Xiangzi killed the doctor Zhibo. Zhibo's confidant Yurang vowed to sacrifice his life for justice and wanted to kill Zhao Xiangzi. He sneaked into Zhao Xiangzi's house and attempted to assassinate him. Zhao Xiangzi admired his loyalty and let him go. Later, he painted his whole body like leprosy, swallowed red hot charcoal to make his voice hoarse, and attempted another assassination attempt before committing suicide.

Ji Ping

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Cao "held the emperor hostage to order the princes" and was regarded as a national thief. A famous Luoyang doctor named Ji Ping, who was loyal to the Han Dynasty, collaborated with his uncle Dong Cheng and others to plot to kill Cao Cao. He planned to poison Cao Cao when delivering medicine, but accidentally revealed the secret. Cao Cao ordered his men to beat Ji Ping severely, forcing him to recruit someone to instruct him. Ji Ping was bleeding all over the steps, but he still scolded the traitor Cao, and then bumped into the steps and died. In Luo Guanzhong's writings, he is a famous loyal minister.

Tan Sitong, Su Wu, Yurang, and Jiping were able to endure all kinds of torture for their loyalty until they gave up their lives. What they did was largely influenced by feudal orthodoxy. The "righteousness" they sacrificed their lives for could only be loyalty.

Wen Tianxiang

When Wen Tianxiang was nineteen, he won the first place in the Luling Township School Examination. The following year (the fourth year of Baoyou), he entered Bailuzhou Academy in Jizhou (now Ji'an, Jiangxi) to study. He was selected as a tribute scholar in Jizhou and went with his father to Lin'an, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, to take the exam. In the palace examination, he wrote "imperial examination policy" to address the current shortcomings, proposed reform plans, and expressed political ambitions. Emperor Lizong of the Song Dynasty was selected as the first, and he also became a disciple of Jia Sidao, the powerful prime minister. The examiner Wang Yinglin reported: "This is the ancient friendship like a turtle." "Jian, my heart is as loyal as iron, I dare to congratulate others."

But his father unfortunately died of illness four days later, and Wen Tianxiang returned home to mourn for three years. In the early years of Kaiqing (1259), the Mongolian army attacked Ezhou (today's Wuchang, Hubei Province). The eunuch Dong Songchen asked Lizong to move the capital to avoid the enemy. Wen Tianxiang asked the emperor to kill Dong Songchen to cheer up people's hearts and offer a plan to defend against the enemy. , was not adopted. Later, he successively held the posts of signing official of Ning Haijun Jiedu, Langguan of the Ministry of punishment, Jiangxi Tixing, Shangshu Zuosilang, Hunan Tixing, and Zhiganzhou. In the sixth year of Xianchun (1270), he was dismissed for offending the traitor Jia Sidao.

In the first month of the first year of Emperor Deyou of the Song Dynasty (1275), due to the massive attack by the Yuan army, the Song army's Yangtze River defense line collapsed. The imperial court issued an edict to organize troops and horses to serve the king. Wen Tianxiang immediately donated his family's financial resources to serve as military expenses, recruited local heroes, and raised troops to serve the king. With the slogan "Justice is mine, all plans are upheld; with numbers, success will be achieved." He organized 30,000 rebels and marched to Lin'an. The Song court appointed Wen Tianxiang to inform Pingjiang Mansion and ordered him to send troops to rescue Changzhou, and immediately ordered him to rush to rescue Dusong Pass. Due to the fierce offensive of the Yuan army, although the Jiangxi rebels fought bravely, they ultimately failed because they were isolated and helpless, with only six people left in the end.

In the first month of the following year, the Yuan army came to Lin'an, and all civil and military officials fled. Empress Dowager Xie appointed Wen Tianxiang as Prime Minister of the Left and Privy Envoy (the Prime Minister on the right was Lai Danchen, the Yangtze River Defense Envoy, who supervised the Xiangyang battle) and sent him out of the city to negotiate with Boyan in an attempt to make peace with the Yuan army. Wen Tianxiang arrived at the Yuan army camp, hoping to spy on the Mongolian military situation through negotiation. During the negotiation process, Wen Tianxiang argued hard and scolded Boyan angrily. But at the same time, the Southern Song Dynasty court sent people to Wen Tianxiang's military camp and announced the disbandment of Wen Tianxiang's army. Boyan learned that Wen Tianxiang's army had been disbanded, so he ordered his arrest. At this time, the Yuan army occupied Lin'an, but Lianghuai, Jiangnan, Fujian and Guangzhou and other places were not completely controlled and occupied by the Yuan army. Therefore, Boyan tried to lure Wen Tianxiang to surrender and use his reputation to clear up the mess as soon as possible. Wen Tianxiang would rather die than surrender, so Boyan had no choice but to escort him to the north. When Wen Tianxiang was escorted to Zhenjiang, he was rescued by local martyrs and escaped. At this time, the Southern Song Dynasty court had surrendered, Emperor Gong was escorted to Yuan Dynasty, and Lu Xiufu and others supported the 7-year-old Song Duanzong to ascend the throne in Fuzhou. Wen Tianxiang entered Fuzhou by imperial edict on May 26, the first year of Jingyan (1276), and served as privy envoy. At the same time, he supervised all the armies and horses. He went to Nanjianzhou (today's Nanping, Fujian) to establish a governor's office, and sent people to various places to recruit troops. Pay to continue the war against the Yuan Dynasty. In the autumn, the Yuan army invaded Fujian, and Duanzong was forced to flee to the sea, drifting by boat in Guangdong.

In July, Wen Tianxiang was extremely dissatisfied with Zhang Shijie's autocratic government and had disagreements with Chen Yizhong, so he left the Southern Song Dynasty and went to court. As the governor, he established a government in Nanjian Prefecture (now Nanping, Fujian) to gather troops and command the resistance. Yuan.

In the winter of October, Wen Tianxiang moved to Tingzhou, Liancheng and other places, and sent counselor Wu Jun to Yudu to contact the anti-Yuan rebels in various places and persist in the struggle. In the second year of Jingyan (1277), the Yuan soldiers entered Tingguan. Wen Tianxiang wanted to occupy Liancheng to resist the enemy. Huang Quji, the defender of Tingzhou, heard that the emperor was sailing to the sea and had different intentions of supporting the soldiers of the county. Wen Tianxiang drove the soldiers to Longyan. In February, Wen Tianxiang led his army to attack Meizhou, and in April he killed two domineering generals. In the summer, troops were sent from Meizhou to attack Jiangxi. At this time, heroes from all over the country responded to the anti-Yuan Dynasty and ordered the passage to Jianghuai. In Yudu (today's Jiangxi Province) After winning a great victory in Dudu, he moved to Ganzhou, attacked Jizhou with partial troops, and successively recovered many states and counties. Li Heng, the Xuanwei envoy to Jiangxi in the Yuan Dynasty, launched a counterattack in Xingguo County. Wen Tianxiang was defeated and his wife, concubines and children were separated. He took in the remaining troops and entered Liancheng again under the guidance of his mother. He asked for orders to reinforce the troops and raise them again, and then moved to Xunzhou.

In the summer of the first year of Xiangxing (1278), Wen Tianxiang learned that Duanzong had died, and his younger brother Zhao Bing, who succeeded him, moved to Yashan and was appointed Shaobao and the Duke of Xinguo. In order to get rid of the difficult situation, he asked to lead his army to join the Southern Song Dynasty. Due to Zhang Shijie's firm opposition, Wen Tianxiang had no choice but to give up and lead his army to retreat to Chaoyang County. In the winter of the same year, the Yuan army attacked in a large scale. Wen Tianxiang was attacked by Yuan general Zhang Hongfan while leading his troops to retreat to Haifeng. Wen Tianxiang's army was attacked by the Yuan army while making rice in Wupoling. The army was defeated. Wen Tianxiang swallowed the ice flakes he carried with him. He attempted suicide but did not die, but fell into a coma. While in coma, Wen Tianxiang was captured.

Wen Tianxiang was escorted to Yashan by Zhang Hongfan and asked to write a letter to recruit Zhang Shijie to surrender.

Wen Tianxiang said: "I can't protect my parents, how can I teach others to betray their parents?" Zhang Hongfan refused to listen and repeatedly forced Wen Tianxiang to write letters. Wen Tianxiang then copied the poem "Crossing the Lingding Ocean" he had written a few days ago to Zhang Hongfan. When Zhang Hongfan read these two sentences, "No one has died since ancient times, his loyalty will be remembered by history." He couldn't help but be moved and stopped forcing Wen Tianxiang. Twenty days after writing "Crossing the Lingding Ocean", after the Southern Song Dynasty suffered a disastrous defeat at the Battle of Yashan, Lu Xiufu jumped into the sea with the eight-year-old emperor Zhao Bing on his back, and the Southern Song Dynasty was destroyed. Zhang Hongfan asked Emperor Shizu of the Yuan Dynasty for instructions on how to deal with Wen Tianxiang. Emperor Shizu of the Yuan Dynasty said, "Whose family has no loyal ministers?" He ordered Zhang Hongfan to treat Wen Tianxiang with courtesy and sent Wen Tianxiang to Dadu (today's Beijing). He went on a hunger strike for eight days without dying. He was detained in Fuxue Hutong, Beijing.

Kublai Khan, the founder of the Yuan Dynasty, loved his talent and first sent Liu Mengyan, the former prime minister of Zuo of the Southern Song Dynasty who surrendered to the Yuan Dynasty, to speak to Wen Tianxiang and persuade him to surrender. Wen Tianxiang was furious when he saw Liu Mengyan, and Liu Mengyan had to leave in anger. Emperor Shizu of the Yuan Dynasty asked Zhao Xian, Emperor Gong of the Song Dynasty, who surrendered to the Yuan Dynasty, to persuade him to surrender. Wen Tianxiang knelt on the ground, cried bitterly, and said to Zhao Xian: "Sir, please come back!" Zhao Xian had nothing to say and left in dismay. Emperor Shizu of the Yuan Dynasty was furious and ordered Wen Tianxiang's hands to be tied and put on wooden shackles. Imprisoned in the cell of the Soldiers and Horses Division. Wen Tianxiang was imprisoned for more than ten days before the jailer loosened his bonds. It took another half a month to remove the wooden shackles from him. Prime Minister Polo of the Yuan Dynasty personally opened a court to interrogate Wen Tianxiang. Wen Tianxiang was escorted to the lobby of the Privy Council, where he stood tall and bowed his hands to Polo. Polo ordered Wen Tianxiang to kneel down. Wen Tianxiang struggled hard and sat on the ground, still refusing to give in. Polo asked Wen Tianxiang: "What else can you say now?" Wen Tianxiang replied: "Everything in the world rises and falls. Nations have been destroyed and slaughtered in all dynasties. I am loyal to the Song Dynasty, and I just want to die early!" Polo was furious. Said: "You want to die? I won't let you die. I want to imprison you!" Wen Tianxiang was not afraid and said: "I am willing to die for justice, and I am not afraid of being imprisoned!"

From then on, Wen Tianxiang Spent three years in prison. While in prison, he received a letter from his daughter Liu Niang and learned that his wife and two daughters were slaves in the palace and lived like prisoners. Wen Tianxiang knew that his daughter's letter was a hint from Yuan Ting: as long as he surrenders, his family can be reunited. However, although Wen Tianxiang was heartbroken, he did not want to lose his integrity because of his wife and daughter. He wrote in a letter to his sister: "To collect Liu Nu's letter, it is painful to cut the stomach and intestines. Who doesn't have the love of his wife and children? But when things come to this point today, it is his fate to die for justice. What can I do? What can I do! ...It can make Liu Nu and Huan Nu have no control over it. They choked with tears."

Wen Tianxiang's life in prison

Life in prison is hard, but Wen Tianxiang is strong. Enduring the pain, he wrote many poems. The third volume of "Guide Houlu", "Song of Righteousness" and other majestic and immortal masterpieces were all written in prison.

In March of the 19th year of the Yuan Dynasty (1282), the powerful minister Ahema was assassinated. The emperor of the Yuan Dynasty ordered the confiscation of Ahema’s family property, investigated Ahema’s crimes, and appointed He Lihuo. Sun is the right prime minister. Heli Huosun proposed governing the country with Confucianism, which was highly agreed by the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty. In August, Emperor Shizu of the Yuan Dynasty asked the ministers: "Who is the prime minister of the south or the north?" The ministers replied: "The people from the north are not as good as Yelu Chucai, and the people from the south are not as good as Wen Tianxiang." So, Emperor Shizu of the Yuan Dynasty issued an order, It is planned to grant Wen Tianxiang a high-ranking official position. Some of Wen Tianxiang's old friends immediately informed Wen Tianxiang of the incident and persuaded Wen Tianxiang to surrender, but Wen Tianxiang refused. On December 8, Emperor Shizu of the Yuan Dynasty summoned Wen Tianxiang and personally persuaded him to surrender. Wen Tianxiang still bowed to Yuan Shizu without kneeling. Emperor Shizu of the Yuan Dynasty did not force him to kneel down. He just said: "You have been here for a long time. If you can change your mind and treat me with loyalty to the Song Dynasty, then I can give you a position in Zhongshu Province." Wen Tianxiang replied : "I am the prime minister of the Song Dynasty. The country is destroyed, and I only want a quick death. I don't want to live for a long time." Yuan Shizu asked again: "Then what do you want?" Wen Tianxiang replied: "I hope one death is enough!" Yuan Shizu was very happy. Angry, he ordered Wen Tianxiang to be executed immediately.

The next day, Wen Tianxiang was escorted to Chaishi execution ground. The supervisor asked: "What else does the prime minister have to say? I can avoid death by answering.

Wen Tianxiang shouted: "If you die, die, what else is there to say?" He asked the prison officer: "Which way is the south?" Someone pointed him in the direction, and Wen Tianxiang knelt down to the south and said, "My business is over." , I feel no guilt in my heart!" So he led his neck to execution and died calmly at the age of 47. Shortly after the execution, there was an edict to stop it. However, Wen Tianxiang was dead. Kublai Khan regretted and said: "This good man is not for my use, so kill him. It's a pity sincerity. "When Wen Tianxiang's wife, Ouyang Shi, found a must-have in his belt, she praised herself: "Confucius said to be benevolent, and Mencius was to obtain righteousness. Only when the righteousness is exhausted, benevolence is the best. What did you learn from reading the books of sages? Now and in the future, you will feel no regrets. "Wen Tianxiang sacrificed his life to achieve benevolence, and his majestic righteousness will last forever. Wen Tianxiang left many immortal poems for people in his life, and his spirit deserves to be widely praised!

Heroes and martyrs of the 8-year war of resistance

Zhang Zizhong, Zhao Dengyu, Tong Linge, Wang Mingzhang, Hao Mengling, Dai Anlan...the countless heroes and martyrs, for the survival of the motherland and the liberation of the Chinese nation, braved enemy artillery fire and fought against the enemy in a hail of bullets. , fought to the last man, fought for life and death on the battlefield, sacrificed his life, shed blood, and drank bullets on the battlefield.

Zhang Zizhong, the Japanese army admired him so much that he saluted his body; Dai Anlan, even if he died in a foreign country, he still wanted his soul. Returning to his hometown; Hao Mengling, who has been fighting for many years, but his father and daughter do not know each other; Wang Mingzhang, who would rather die than surrender, would rather die than become a slave to the country's subjugation... These scenes will always shine brightly in the annals of history, their The national spirit will always stir people's heartstrings!