The word "drinking ice" first came from "The Life of Zhuangzi": "I am ordered to drink ice at night, but I am so hot inside?" Literally, I only accepted the monarch's order in the morning and had to drink ice water at night. The actual meaning is to express one's inner anxiety.
In the late Qing Dynasty, Mr. Liang Qichao used the phrase "drinking ice for ten years, it is difficult to cool his blood" to express his anxiety about the current situation and his persistence in his ideals and ambitions as a leader of reform and reform. Liang Qichao, who was young and promising at that time, took this sentence as his motto, hung it in his bedroom, and named his study: Ice Room. Liang Qichao became the owner of the icehouse. In addition, Liang Qichao also included this famous saying which he cherished very much in his anthology "Drinking Ice Room Collection".
It is true that the political reform led by Liang Qichao and Kang Youwei was just an attempt full of scholar spirit and ended in failure. However, as a literary pioneer, educator and historian, Liang Qichao was a rare success in China's modern history. After all the changes in modern China, I think Duke Liang has a completely different understanding of this sentence. After his death, his son and famous architect Liang Sicheng named himself and Lin Zaibing, Lin's daughter, in memory of his father.
Later, when people quote this sentence, they often don't think of the 100-day historical events. They only remember that some people, after experiencing countless hardships, still maintained their initial enthusiasm for their ideals and eventually changed the world.
Not everyone is lucky enough to go down in history, and not everyone has the ability to save the world or even change it. Today, you and I are like the saying in "Red Cliff Ode", "The fly is a drop in the ocean". "Drinking ice for ten years" is not "drinking ice", but "ten years". "Ten", like "nine", is a function word in ancient Chinese, which can refer to an uncertain period of time or even a lifetime. In the long life, have you been gradually smoothed by the quicksand of the years, and can you always maintain your enthusiasm for life in a chicken feather encounter?
Romain rolland said: "There is only one kind of heroism, which is to love life as always after recognizing the truth of life." Many times, people will think that this is just chicken soup that has been used for a long time, but they have to admit that this heroism is difficult and necessary. Liang Qichao's "drinking ice for ten years, it is difficult to cool blood" is even more profound and moving when expressing similar meaning. Perhaps this is the unique charm of China culture, because it is not a kind of praise exclusively for heroes, but a kind of praise for all people who have enthusiasm and expectation in various living conditions.
I hope everyone who reads this article can remember that he is not only a person pushed forward by fate, but also an adult who struggles for life. But teenagers looking forward to sunrise. Even if you meet something, even if you are disappointed, even if you have no high expectations for the future, you still have expectations. After drinking ice for ten years, blood is hard to cool.