Change

Only through reform and innovation can society develop and mankind progress. To get rid of the old evils, we must have the courage to fight against the old things; to create the future, we must have the courage to explore.

Innovators are warriors who blaze new trails, trendsetters on the crest of the waves, and elites of the era.

Factual arguments

Shang Yang’s reforms to strengthen Qin

Shang Yang was a famous thinker and reformer during the Warring States Period in my country. He helped Qin Xiaogong carry out two major reforms, "opening Qianmo and sealing the frontier", abolishing the well field system, recognizing the private ownership of land and establishing a tax collection method based on men; rewarding agricultural warfare, and those who engaged in farming and weaving and paid more grain and cloth could change their original status. , those with military exploits could also receive titles; a system of prefectures and counties was implemented, with the King of Qin directly appointing officials. In addition, he also emphasized the rule of law by "burning poems and writing down laws and regulations".

Although Shang Yang was later killed by the conservative reactionary forces, his reforms laid the foundation for the prosperity of Qin.

Lu Xun cut his braid to express his ambition

The Qing government forced all men to grow a long braid. In Japan, Chinese students from the Qing Dynasty also had to wear long braids and were ridiculed and even insulted by the Japanese. Lu Xun was determined to be the first to cut off his braids to express his resistance to the Qing government and his determination to wash away his shame in front of foreigners. He specially went to the photo studio to take photos, and on the back of the photos, he wrote a poem that was concerned about the country and the people: "There is no way to escape the divine arrow on the spiritual platform, and the storm is like a rock in my hometown. It means that the cold stars cannot be seen in Tsuen, and I recommend Xuanyuan with my blood."

Jenner’s experiment with cowpox

In 1796, the American Jenner’s experiment with cowpox was successful. A terrible infection that was rampant in the world - smallpox. Finally a nemesis.

However, there are many obstacles to promoting this therapy. The Royal Journal of Medicine refused to publish Jenner's paper. Some people spread rumors: "If you are vaccinated with cowpox, horns will grow on your head, hair will grow on your body, and you will make a cow's cry." They attacked Jenner personally.

Jenna is not afraid of threats and bravely defends scientific truth. Publish your own papers at your own expense to promote new things and new ideas. Preventive medical activities to inoculate cowpox to defeat smallpox quickly spread around the world, and new things finally defeated old ideas.

Theoretical Arguments

1. Everyone is responsible for reform. Sun Yat-sen's "Strategy for the Founding of the People's Republic of China"

2. Reform is never smooth sailing. Lu Xun's "The Rebirth of Chinese Language"

3. Change makes the people rich. Tan Sitong's "Renxue 2"

4. Big changes will bring big effects, small changes will bring small effects. Liang Qichao's "On Imperial Examinations"

5. Sweep clean with a new broom. [English] Haywood's "Collection of Proverbs"

6. Human nature craves new things. [Ancient Rome] Pliny the Elder's "Natural History"

7. Please don't play the former court hero and listen to the new version of "Willow Branch" by Tang Dynasty Liu Yuxi's "Nine Poems on Willow Branch"

8. Personnel changes, and exchanges become ancient and modern. Tang Dynasty Meng Haoran's "Climbing Xian Mountain with the Scholars"

9. Today is better than yesterday, and tomorrow will be better than today. Qing Dynasty Li Yu's "Preface to "The Collection of Li Weng Yu""

10 The green mountains cannot cover it, and it will flow eastward after all. Song Dynasty Xin Qiji's "Bodhisattva Man·Book on the Ostomy Wall of Jiangxi"