Source: Mao Zedong's "Qinyuanchun Changsha"
Selected passages:
You see the mountains and plains, and the layers of forests are all dyed; The river is full of water, and hundreds of people compete for the flow. The eagle strikes the sky, the fish is shallow, and all kinds of frost fight for freedom.
Translation:
You see that thousands of peaks have all turned red, and the layers of trees seem to be stained with color. The river is crystal clear, and the big ships are racing against the wind and waves. The eagle flies in the vast sky, the fish swims in the clear water, and everything is fighting for a free life in Qiu Guang.
Extended data:
Facing the autumn sky, Uptown focuses on describing the vitality of autumn and the freedom of natural things to compete in frosty days, thus generating associations and feelings with human society and putting forward a major social issue of who should dominate this magnificent river and mountain.
Memories of Time Past vividly reproduces the early revolutionary activities of the author and a group of revolutionary youths, and praises their revolutionary heroism and fearless spirit of transforming the old world and creating a new world.
The whole poem enthusiastically eulogizes the great ambition and revolutionary struggle spirit of proletarian revolutionary soldiers, and calls on people to fight for the China revolution and shoulder historical responsibilities. The scenery is lyrical, the scene blends, the front and back reflect each other, and they are closely connected, full of revolutionary pride of striving for progress and heroic fighting.