"Why?" Zhou Enlai asked suspiciously.
"That's a foreign concession. It's not good to get into trouble. There is no reason to go! "
"Why is that?" Zhou Enlai gets to the bottom of it.
"Why? China is depressed! " Uncle sighed and said nothing.
Soon, Zhou Enlai entered the Dongguan Model School.
He will never forget what his uncle said when he came to meet him. He often thinks, "What is concession like? Why can't China people go there, but foreigners can live there? Isn't this the land of China ... "A series of questions puzzled Zhou Enlai, and curiosity drove him, so he had to go and see for himself.
On a sunny Sunday, Zhou Enlai carried his uncle and a good classmate into the concession. Hey! This area is really different from other places: the streets are full of lights and excitement, and most foreigners with yellow hair, white skin and big noses and patrol policemen are arrogant.
While Zhou Enlai and his classmates were looking around, they suddenly found a group of people shouting in front of the police station.
They hurried over and saw a woman in rags crying in the crowd, while a tall foreigner stood there proudly. Only after asking did I know that this woman's relative was run over by a foreigner's car. She had hoped that the police station in China would support her and punish the foreigner. Who knows that instead of punishing the foreigner who caused the accident, China patrolman reprimanded her.
All the people watching in China clenched their fists. However, in foreign concessions, who dares? I can only persuade that unfortunate woman. At this time, Zhou Enlai truly realized the meaning of what his uncle called "China Depression".
After returning from the Concession, students often see Zhou Enlai alone in meditation, and no one knows what he is thinking. It was not until Zhou Enlai gave a speech in a self-cultivation class that the mystery was solved.
In the self-cultivation class that day, President Wei asked the students a question: "Why do students study?"
The students answered enthusiastically. Some people say, "Learn for understanding." Some said, "Be an official by studying." Others said, "Learning is to earn money." "Reading for the sake of eating" ...
Zhou Enlai has been sitting there quietly, not in a hurry to speak. President Wei noticed, motioned for everyone to be quiet, and called the roll to let him answer. Zhou Enlai stood up and answered clearly and firmly: "Learn for the rise of China!"
President Wei does it one brace up! He never imagined that a 12-year-old child should have such ambition and mind! He opened his eyes wide and asked, "Say again, why are you studying?"
"Learn for the rise of China!"
The forceful words won the applause of President Wei: "Good! For the rise of China! Where there is a will, be a pupil! "
Yes, young Zhou Enlai realized at that time that if the people of China were not bullied by imperialism, they must revitalize China. Reading, we must take this as the goal.
After the outbreak of the Revolution of 1911, Zhou Enlai took the lead in cutting off his pigtails and contacting progressive books. He read books by Zhang Taiyan, the leader of the Guangfu Association, magazines of the League, and articles by Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao. Zhou Enlai carefully read Zhang Taiyan's obscure ancient prose and Liang Qichao's modern prose. Although the ideological emphasis of progressive publications is different, the truth of simplicity and patriotism comes down in one continuous line.
Zhou Enlai's vision widened with reading, his thoughts were sublimated, and he had his own unique understanding of things. Therefore, when other students haven't figured out why they want to study, Zhou Enlai has clearly put forward "studying for the rise of China"
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Family changes in childhood made Zhou Enlai precocious than his peers. The day after Zhou Enlai was born, his grandfather Wan Qingxuan died.
Less than half a year old, and because my uncle Zhou Yigan was sick and childless, according to the custom of Huai 'an, Zhou Enlai was adopted as my uncle's heir. On the one hand, adults hope to solve the problem of uncle's inheritance through adoption, and on the other hand, they hope to cure uncle's consumption by adopting this way, which is considered as "celebrating happiness" in the local area. But soon his little uncle died.
1in the spring of 907, Wan, her biological mother, died of tuberculosis at the age of 35 because of the pressure of family life. Soon, Chen Ye, the foster mother, died of illness. As the eldest son, at the age of 65,438+00, he arranged the funeral of his foster mother, and transported her body from Qingjiangpu to Huaicheng to be buried with her uncle.
Family changes made Zhou Enlai feel the pain of losing relatives, the hardships of life and the warmth of human feelings earlier than his peers. At the age of 65,438+00, Zhou Enlai was "responsible for housework and orderlies".
The hardships of his childhood prompted him to change the status quo. Zhou Enlai's ancestral home is Shaoxing, Zhejiang, and his grandfather's ancestral home is Nanchang, Jiangxi. When they were grandparents, the two families went to Huaiyin and Huai 'an as county officials, and they met and got married. Grandfather died in his fifties. He didn't produce or buy land before his death, only real estate.
In my parents' generation, my family began to decline, my uncle became a teacher, and my father did not go home all the year round, making ends meet. Zhou Enlai knew the hardships of life from an early age, especially treating his biological mother and adoptive mother. He often pawns valuable things at home for money to buy medicine.
The hardships of childhood made Zhou Enlai understand the hardships of his parents earlier, and the hardships of having no money to maintain a normal life also made him understand earlier that the daily necessities at home were hard-won, and the simple idea of living a good life took root in young Zhou Enlai's heart.
The early education of four women made him understand books and manners. In Zhou Enlai's childhood, four women had an important influence on his growth. Born in an official family (father is Huaiyin county magistrate), Wan's mother is kind, cheerful, beautiful and dignified, with good family education quality.
She was smart and capable before her death, and she had a strong ability to solve disputes. She often took Zhou Enlai with her when she came forward to mediate family disputes, which had an important influence on young Zhou Enlai's basic etiquette, interpersonal relationship, justice, housework, careful work and the formation of his outlook on life.
Heir mother Chen, educated, educated, like quiet. She gave Zhou Enlai early cultural enlightenment education, and often told him stories, such as those in Rain Flower and Rebirth, taught him to study culture and sent him to a private school. Therefore, from the age of eight, Zhou Enlai was able to read novels such as The Journey to the West, The Water Margin and A Dream of Red Mansions.
Zhou Enlai learned a cheerful personality from her biological mother and a quiet personality from her adoptive mother. Nurse Jiang is a poor farmer. After Zhou Enlai was born, she went to Zhou Jia to work as a nanny for Zhou Enlai and worked in Zhou Jia until Zhou Enlai left Huai 'an for the Northeast. When I was a child, Zhou Enlai often followed Ma Jiang to watch her work, and Ma Jiang also taught him all kinds of farm work and plant knowledge.
He also took him to his hometown to play with his children and let young Zhou Enlai know about agriculture and the hard life of farmers. There is also an eighth aunt, Yang, who became the actual supporter after the death of her biological mother and adoptive mother, which has a great influence on her. Zhou Enlai also has deep feelings for her eighth aunt.
The influence of these four women on Zhou Enlai is various, ranging from the basic living ability, life experience, the formation of outlook on life, the cultivation of personality to the view of society.
Visiting Guan Gong Temple and the ruins of the Russo-Japanese War made him realize the painful lesson that he would be beaten if he fell behind. Guan Tianpei, a famous anti-British general in the late Qing Dynasty, was a native of Huai 'an, where he built a public memorial hall for Loyalty Festival. When he was a teenager, he often visited the Yasukuni Shrine with his adoptive mother Chen. His adoptive mother Chen told him the story of Guan Tianpei's sacrifice in the War of Resistance Against Britain, which made young people revere national heroes.
When I was a student in Northeast China, I lived in Weijialou in the southern suburb of Fengtian, visited the ruins of the Russo-Japanese War, and listened to the story of the Russo-Japanese War and the sufferings of the Japanese people, letting him know that backwardness would be beaten, invaded and destroyed. In his young mind, he was born with great ambition to revitalize China and save the nation.
I went to school in the northeast and received western education. I am open-minded. When I was a child, I was not only educated by my foster mother Chen in Huai 'an, but also studied culture in a private school. I went to study in the northeast and began to get in touch with western learning.
1946 In an interview with American journalist Lieberman in September, Zhou Enlai said, "When I was twelve years old, I left home and went to the Northeast, which was the key to my life and ideological transformation. If I don't leave home this time, my life will be nothing, and like my brothers who stay at home, I will end tragically. " "From feudal education to western education, from feudal family to school environment."
Studying in Northeast China broadened Zhou Enlai's horizons, made him know something about foreign countries, and initially saw the situation that the country was weak, the people were poor and bullied. When he heard the news that the Revolution of 1911 broke out and overthrew the rule of the Qing Dynasty, he took the lead in cutting off the braid symbolizing the subjects of the Qing Dynasty at school. So when President Wei asked his classmates why they were studying, he could naturally say the inspirational saying "Studying for the rise of China".
When Zhou Enlai was a child, he was determined to study for the rise of China. When he graduated from Nankai School, he and his classmates exchanged the message "I want to know about China, which is soaring in the world". He went to Japan to study abroad and return to China to participate in the May 4th Movement, and then went to Europe to work and study to return to China to participate in the revolution ... He has been fighting for the rise of China.
Teenagers set their initial heart and then fight for it all their lives. Zhou Enlai's firm ideals and beliefs and persistent pursuit of life will always be an example for our producers.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Reading for the Rise of China
References:
People's Daily Online-Zhou Enlai's Initial Heart: Studying for the Rise of China