The original text is as follows:
The great river song turned to the east, and the dense group helped the poor.
Ten years of broken walls, it is difficult to reward the sea and be a hero.
Translation:
After singing Su Shi's Niannujiao Chibi Nostalgia, he turned and went to Japan to study. All kinds of profound and rigorous science can save the world from poverty.
After ten years of hard work, I will go back to China to do something to save China. If this wish is hard to come true, even if Chen Tianhua throws himself into the sea to awaken his countrymen, he can be called a hero.
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This poem begins with a gorgeous sentence, expressing the young Zhou Enlai's determination to seek truth. Zhou Enlai regarded studying abroad as his own training, so he quoted a code word "River of no return, scouring all romantic figures through the ages" and gave it positive significance. The word "turn around to the east" comes from Liang Qichao's poem.
When Liang Qichao went into exile in Japan after the failure of the Reform Movement of 1898, he wrote a long poem "Going to the Country". At the beginning of the poem, he said, "Alas! The economy is weak and weak, and it is useless for Confucianism to be tolerant without cutting its head. It is a hero to die at the hands of a thief without reporting your kindness, friendship and grievances. Cut tears and go abroad, turn around and ignore me. " The last two sentences say, "There is Chung Shan Man ahead. Turn around and ignore me!"
Liang Qichao praised the Meiji Restoration in Japan and said that he should follow the example of Meiji people. Zhou Enlai's ambition to save the country and his mood of seeking truth from Japan are similar to Liang Qichao's. Besides, he was familiar with Liang's works at that time, so he used Liang Qichao's poems.
The second sentence "helping the poor" means "helping the poor", which means helping and relieving what is lacking in the world. From the articles written by Zhou Enlai at that time, we can analyze what he thought was missing in the world at that time (that is, China society).
In Zhou Enlai 19 1 1 June, he thought that the spiritual crisis in China at that time was: "The morality of our citizens has reached an extreme decline. The river is getting worse and worse, saving people. " "Ordinary people are ignorant, in a daze, and don't know what the country is for", lacking "national character and the soul of China".
In "The View of Our School's New Drama", he thinks: "The people in urgent need in China today are extremely poor and ignorant! ..... silly, the masses are awkward. " In The Second Theory of Luxury, it is considered that China was "culturally dark, with a low life, and the whole country was at a loss". Obviously, Zhou Enlai thought that what China lacked at that time was soul of china and nationalism, that is, people's consciousness.
Therefore, "eclectic aid to the poor" means learning knowledge from various disciplines (including advanced western ideas) and using it to transform the "national stupidity" of China society, that is, enlightening the public with scientific civilization.
The three sentences of Breaking the Wall in Ten Years are the development of the sentence of Intensive Research to Help the Poor, which is about the difficulties encountered in "helping the poor" (that is, enlightening the masses) and Zhou Enlai's perseverance in not being afraid of difficulties. 19 19 in may, Zhou Enlai affirmed the spirit of "opening the way for society", even though it was "unacceptable to society".
Doing something that inspires the masses and is temporarily "socially unacceptable" is exactly what the poem calls "the one who faces the wall." The word "wall" in this poem represents one thing, which is a metaphor for people who have not yet realized. At that time, Zhou Enlai went to Japan, ready to learn to help the world and arouse public awareness. But at that time, the masses did not realize it, did not understand it for the time being, and even "tolerated" it like a stone wall.
Zhou Enlai is determined to stick to his work with tenacious perseverance. After a long period of education (that is, "ten years" in the poem), he finally influenced the masses and improved their consciousness. Once the masses realize it, it means that the stone wall has melted. This kind of thinking that inspires people's consciousness with great will and patience is written as a poem, which is "breaking the wall in ten years."
The last sentence "A hero who jumps into the sea is hard to pay" shows that he gave up the heroism of studying abroad for the needs of the revolution. There are two understandings of "crossing the sea is difficult to pay". The first understanding is that it is difficult to follow the ambition of the sea, that is to say, you can't go abroad to seek truth or engage in revolution, but you can still be a hero. The second understanding is that even if you can't realize the revolutionary ideal and jump into the sea and die, you can be said to be a hero.
In order to wake up the sleeping people in China, he committed suicide by throwing himself into the sea on 1905 as a warning. Zhou Enlai used the word "crossing the sea" at the end of the poem, which is related to the deeds of Chen Tianhua.
The whole poem shows Zhou Enlai's great ambition of "flying through the wall" in his youth and his revolutionary spirit of dedicating himself to saving the country.