On young chinese was written in 1900, and Liang Qichao was exiled to Japan after the Reform Movement of 1898. That year was the boxer movement year. At that time, due to imperialist aggression, the Boxer Patriotic Movement broke out in China. Imperialism united to form Eight-Nation Alliance, colluded with the Qing government, suppressed the Boxer Rebellion, and captured Tianjin and Peking.
At that time, Eight-Nation Alliance created public opinion and slandered China as "the old empire", "the sick man of East Asia" and "divided", unable to stand on its own feet, and had to be managed or carved up by the great powers. Among China people, there are some ignorant people who shout that "it is unreasonable for China not to die" and "any big country can perish China within three days", spreading pessimism, and the national crisis is unprecedented.
The failure of the Reform Movement of 1898 forced Liang Qichao to flee to Japan, but he did not give up his efforts to strengthen the country through reform. In Japan, he founded Qingyi Daily and tried his best to publicize the continuation of the Reform Movement through the media. At that time, imperialism created public opinion and slandered China as the "boss empire". In order to refute the imperialists' self-confidence, Liang Qichao wrote this article "On young chinese" in due course.
Expanding information ideologically, On young chinese is strongly lyrical. On the one hand, the article is very critical, dissecting China, the "boss empire" layer by layer, and mercilessly criticizing the psychological state of those who hold the handle of the country and are old. On the other hand, the "young China people" repeatedly described by the author has entrusted the author's patriotic thoughts and positive and optimistic national self-confidence, and is also full of lyrical characteristics.
In terms of stylistic language, The Story of young chinese is also very representative. The sentence pattern with alternating length and verse style, especially the introduction or creation of new words and images mentioned above, has undoubtedly subverted the vocabulary and syntax system used in China ancient prose. As far as style is concerned, The Story of young chinese is a blend of Ci Fu, Si Liu, parallel sentences and ancient prose, which is free to advance and retreat, fluent and fluent, showing the author's profound artistic foundation in operating style. In the evolution history of China's literary language and style, Liang Qichao's prose is undoubtedly a form of transition from classical Chinese to vernacular Chinese, which directly led to the trend of the May 4th vernacular Chinese movement.
"On young chinese" eulogizes the heroic future and brilliant future of the motherland, places infinite hope on the young people in China who shoulder the heavy responsibility of building young chinese, and encourages them to rise up and fight for the transformation of China. Written language is characterized by high conciseness, generalization, grandeur and full of emotion. Most of the articles are four words and one sentence, which rhymes. They use rhetorical methods such as repetition, antithesis, metaphor, parallelism, etc., and quote a lot of allusions, which makes the article more convincing and appealing, and makes it sonorous and catchy to read.