1, Salvation Theory is an article written by Zou Rong. The article first points out that China is a weak country and "a tragic disaster of national subjugation and extinction", indicating that "the most important thing today is training". Then he attacked the Qing government, pointing out its crimes of "bullying the small with the big and making the bad worse" and betraying the country and flattering the enemy. Then put forward the viewpoint that "if you want to stay in China, you must reject the Japanese".

2. Issue a call to save the country by swearing to the death: "Since my 400 million compatriots were born in this white century, there are two more things on my compatriots' shoulders that we must save: today's call is' no war' and' national subjugation'. "Theory of national salvation, title. Important papers on the dispute between schools and imperial examinations, western learning and middle schools in the late Qing Dynasty. Yan Fu was written in the 21st year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty (1895).

Those who reprimand the imperial examination are actually "absurd and confused". Expose stereotyped writing and three evils: "blocking wisdom" refers to ideological bondage; "Bad conscience" refers to ideological corruption; "Nourishing the wandering hand" refers to nourishing those ignorant vagrants. It is believed that the reform is not in a hurry to abolish stereotyped writing, and the harm of stereotyped writing lies in leaving no talents in the world.

Yan Fu, the author of "On Saving the Nation", has the following understanding:

1, Yan Fu (1854,65438+1October 8th-192165438+1October 27th), male, formerly known as Ben.

2. He graduated from Fujian Ship Administration School and Royal Naval Academy successively, and served as the director of the office of the Translation Bureau of Shi Jing University, the dean of Shanghai Fudan College, the dean of Anqing Teachers College, and the editor-in-chief of the Qing Dynasty Terminology Museum.

3. During his teaching in Beiyang Naval Academy founded by Li Hongzhang, he trained the first batch of naval talents in modern China, translated the theory of evolution, founded the National Newspaper, systematically introduced western democracy and science, publicized the thought of reform and reform, and introduced western sociology, politics, political economy, philosophy and natural science to China. Published the Complete Works of Yan Fu.

4. 192 1 10 died at the age of 67 in Langguan Lane Mansion, Fuzhou. Yan Fu's translation criteria of faithfulness, expressiveness and elegance had a far-reaching impact on later translation work. He was an influential bourgeois enlightenment thinker in the late Qing Dynasty and one of the advanced China people who sought truth from the West in China's modern history.