-Sun Yat-sen's spirit and its enlightenment

March 12 is the anniversary of the death of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the great revolutionary forerunner. Although Dr. Sun Yat-sen died for more than half a century, he devoted himself to the country and the people, and his life experience and spirit after his death will always inspire future generations.

The smoke of the Opium War has not completely dispersed. Although the Manchu almost returned to the dark room before the war, there were still a few social elites, such as Wei Yuan, who issued the cry of "learning from foreigners to control foreigners". In front of the Qing empire, their voices were so weak and lonely that they were like spring thunder to later generations, but they were like stagnant water at that time. But with the beginning, there must be development. In order to expel the great powers and revitalize China, countless people with lofty ideals have gone forward bravely, gone through fire and water, spared no effort to shed their blood and sacrificed their lives, in order to explore the truth and road of saving the country through fire and water. Sun Yat-sen is undoubtedly one of the few most dazzling stars.

The reason why Sun Yat-sen is Sun Yat-sen is of course closely related to his historical background and social environment, but it is also directly related to his personal background, experience, education, interests, personality, ideals and so on.

Xiangshan County, Guangdong Province is located in the south of the Pearl River Delta, bordering the South China Sea and close to Macau. The special geographical location, wind and waves and the smell of the South China Sea have created the open mind of Xiangshan people. Due to the small population, some Xiangshan people left Xiangshan early to make a living in Macau, or went to Nanyang, or even drifted to distant Honolulu. Sun Yat-sen's father worked as a shoemaker in Macau when he was young. When Dr. Sun Yat-sen was five years old, his brother Sun Mei crossed the ocean in 187 1 to make a living in Honolulu. A few years later, Sun Mei developed into an overseas Chinese capitalist, which had a far-reaching impact on Sun Yat-sen. ..

Born in a poor family, Sun Yat-sen, like many poor children in rural areas of China, took part in agricultural labor since childhood, which made him have a deeper understanding and recognition of the plight and demands of farmers living at the bottom of society. Because my family was poor, I didn't enter the private school in the village until 10 years old. I also listened attentively to the rebellion story of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and planted vague revolutionary seeds in my young mind. If we just slide along the track generally inherent in the rural areas of China, Sun Yat-sen will work hard and live silently in the long river of history, just like thousands of children of China farmers in Qian Qian. However, ruthless history only has a soft spot for him, and many inevitable factors and accidental opportunities have infiltrated each other, forging the great pioneer of China's democratic revolution in modern times-Dr. Sun Yat-sen. The key link is that he took refuge in his brother Sun Mei.

1878, 12-year-old Sun Yat-sen accompanied his mother to Honolulu via Hong Kong. Because of Sun Mei's success in his career, Sun Yat-sen avoided the hardships of starting a business after he arrived in Honolulu, entered the local missionary school, and initially accepted western democratic ideas and modern scientific and technological knowledge, which laid the foundation for his knowledge, interests and beliefs in his later years. After that, he continued to receive western education in Hong Kong. After graduating from Central College of Hong Kong, he studied medicine and went to Macao to practice medicine. During the period, I often discuss current events with like-minded people and attack bad politics.

No "rebel" or revolutionary is born to "rebel" and want revolution. At first, they always called for reform within the system. Only when this road is blocked can there be "rebellion" and revolution. Sun Yat-sen is no exception. 1894 Writing a letter to Li Hongzhang on the eve of the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War of 1894 was about the starting point for Sun Yat-sen's real involvement in politics. In all fairness, the opinions and suggestions of this 8,000-word letter did not go beyond the political reform remarks and propositions of the early bourgeois reformists. Li Hongzhang, who was in a high position as a minister at that time, naturally could not realize the serious consequences of ignoring the earnest wishes of an unknown young man. Soon Sun Yat-sen went to Honolulu to contact revolutionary volunteers, established the first bourgeois revolutionary group meeting in modern China, and clearly put forward the revolutionary idea of "expelling the Tatars, restoring China and establishing a coalition government", which opened the prelude to his great revolutionary life.

The following year, Sun Yat-sen returned to Hongkong and established the headquarters of Zhong Xing Association. With the fiasco of the Qing government in the Sino-Japanese War and the great humiliation of treaty of shimonoseki, Sun Yat-sen and others planned and launched the Guangzhou Uprising. The adventure uprising not only ended in failure, but also forced Sun Yat-sen to go into exile for 16 years until the success of the Revolution of 1911. 1896, Sun Yat-sen arrived in London, England. Unfortunately, he was kidnapped by the Qing government embassy in Britain and was ready to be transported back to China for execution. Fortunately, Sun Yat-sen was rescued by British friendly people. Fortunately, Sun Yat-sen spread to the world and became an internationally famous revolutionary leader who violated the original intention of the Qing government.

Due to the development of democratic revolution, Sun Yat-sen and revolutionary groups such as Zhong Xing Society, Huaxing Society and Guangfu Society formed a unified revolutionary organization League, and summarized the 16-character program of the League into three principles of nationality, civil rights and people's livelihood, and systematically expounded the Three People's Principles. Since then, the League has led a great debate with Kang Liangwei's new school on revolutionary improvement, founded newspapers and periodicals, and vigorously publicized the idea of democratic revolution, so that the ideological trend of democratic revolution has developed rapidly not only overseas but also at home. Although the eight armed uprisings he directly led or influenced before Wuchang's death were defeated, each failure shocked the Qing government and expanded the influence of the revolution. Just because of this, in 19 1 1 year, Wuchang gave a righteous speech and the whole country responded, which finally ended the decadent rule of the Manchu Dynasty for more than 260 years and the feudal autocracy of China for thousands of years. Although Sun Yat-sen was far away in the United States at this time, it seemed that it had nothing to do with Wuchang Shouyi, but without the infinite struggle and sacrifice of revolutionaries led by Sun Yat-sen, Wuchang Uprising could not be achieved overnight.

16 years ago, the unknown "anti-thief" Sun Yat-sen was forced to flee overseas; After 16, the revolutionary leader returned home with honor, and Sun Yat-sen became the interim president unanimously elected in various contradictions. Under internal and external pressure, Sun Yat-sen, who was only the temporary president for four months, gave the position of the temporary president to Yuan Shikai, who successfully forced the palace. Sun Yat-sen believes that since the abdication of the Qing emperor, nationalism and civil rights movements have been completed, and "people's livelihood has not yet begun". The direction of future efforts is to focus on people's livelihood, implement social revolution, average land ownership, control capital, borrow a lot and promote industry. Therefore, Sun Yat-sen went to Beijing to discuss business with Yuan Shikai, and met Yuan Shikai 13 times in less than a month. Because the time for Yuan Shikai's dictatorship is not yet ripe, Sun Yat-sen still has great use value. In order to deceive Sun Yat-sen, Yuan Shikai often said that he was "concerned about the country and the people" and his words were sincere. Yuan Shikai agreed with almost all the opinions put forward by Sun Yat-sen. Sun Yat-sen was extremely satisfied with Yuan Shikai and thought that Yuan Shikai had more political experience in governing the country than himself, so he announced his resignation as a formal presidential candidate to Yuan Shikai, supported Yuan Shikai as a president for ten years, and trained millions of elite soldiers. However, he himself has devoted ten years to the construction of national railways, and plans to build 20 Wan Li railways within ten years, making China the world's largest power. Yuan Shikai was overjoyed, and simply carried out the fake play to the end, giving Sun Yat-sen a fake position of "national railway supervision", and Sun Yat-sen also gladly took up his post, "thinking day and night, dare not relax."

However, after only half a year, the dreamer was awakened by the gunfire, and the blood of Song illuminated Sun Yat-sen's eyes. From the beginning to the end of the "Second Revolution", Sun Yat-sen became a wanted man of the Republic of China created by himself. Even today, Sun Yat-sen is still criticized by everyone, accusing him of being so credulous to Yuan Shikai, being too naive, naive and immature politically and so on. Compared with Yuan Shikai, these words are not too much for Sun Yat-sen. But then again, it is precisely because there are too many shameless "politicians" hooligans like Yuan Shikai who are not naive, naive and over-mature, who are good at intrigue and indulgence. China's problems are hard to return, while Sun Yat-sen, who has ideas of freedom, democracy, equality and fraternity, is often marginalized, and China is still in dire straits.

Sun Yat-sen continued to struggle for the establishment of the real Republic of China, and formed the China Revolutionary Party to "protect the country" and "protect the law". Despite repeated failures, he was never discouraged and realized that the northern and southern warlords were birds of a feather. Sun Yat-sen, who was in trouble, continued to grope in the dark and wrote books, hoping to awaken the people. Sun Yat-sen described the grand blueprint of China's modernization in his "Industrial Plan", many of which are still exciting even today and even make future generations feel ashamed.

Sun Yat-sen, who experienced numerous failures in his life, suffered the worst failure in his later years. Chen Jiongming, the "revolutionary general" who followed him for more than ten years, tried to kill him. Those who tried to kill him in the past were all enemies of the revolution, and all previous failures were caused by relatively powerful enemies. These are of course reasonable things; Although there were several times of "anti-Sun" during the League period, after all, it was political differences within the revolutionary ranks, but this time, "the disaster started from the elbow and the war started from the heart." This time, it was his most dependent and trusted subordinate, Chen Jiongming, who completed the plan of the Great Northern Expedition for him. Sun Yat-sen's extreme pain can be imagined, as he himself said: "Comrade Wen led the Republic of China in its struggle for thirty years. Fight to the death in the middle, and the number of failures cannot be counted. Although failure is terrible, there is nothing worse than this servant! "

However, Sun Yat-sen is a real great man who never gives up. He became more and more excited when he was depressed. The more serious his failure, the more lessons he can learn. "A high wind knows the power of grass, and then it is entangled to distinguish sharp weapons." God helps those who help themselves, and their fate is fair. In the difficult exploration process of the October Revolution, Sun Yat-sen, who was almost desperate, vaguely saw the future direction of the China Revolution, decided to "take Russia as a teacher", began the biggest change in his later years, transformed the Kuomintang, formulated three major policies of "uniting Russia, uniting with * * * and helping the peasants and workers", gave a new interpretation to the Three People's Principles, developed the old Three People's Principles into the new Three People's Principles, and realized the two parties in the country. In order to achieve national reunification, Sun Yat-sen went north with illness, and a superstar unfortunately fell in March 1925.

Although Sun Yat-sen passed away, there were successors to the revolutionary cause. The people of China have finally completed Sun Yat-sen's unfinished business and realized his lifelong dream of striving for the independence and prosperity of the Chinese nation.

History is developing and society is changing, but Sun Yat-sen's lifelong spirit of fighting for the country and the people is eternal. He cares about the country and the people, bears morality with iron shoulders, revolutionizes all his life, and does not seek personal fame and fortune; He is never afraid of any difficulties and obstacles, and he will never give up when he encounters setbacks. He loves learning, insists on writing, integrates Chinese and western, keeps pace with the times with an open mind, dares to explore and leads the trend of the times. This spirit has given future generations endless inspiration and strength. Dr. Sun Yat-sen's will that "the revolution has not been successful, but comrades still have to work hard" is still of great practical significance today, because China still has a long way to go to achieve the goal of modernization. We should continue to carry forward the spirit of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, keep pace with the times, be down-to-earth, and make unremitting efforts to build China into a prosperous, strong, democratic and civilized socialist country, so as to comfort the heroic spirit of Dr. Sun Yat-sen and countless revolutionary martyrs.