The red sun has just risen, full of sunshine; The Yellow River emerged from the ground and surged. Hidden dragons leap from the abyss and fly with scales and claws; Little tigers roar in the valley, all animals are afraid of panic, male falcons flap their wings and the dust flies high; Strange flowers have just begun to breed buds, brilliant, bright and lush.
General Gan's sword has just been sharpened and glistened. The sky above us and the earth below us have a long history vertically and a vast territory horizontally. The future is vast and the days ahead are infinitely long. Beautiful, my young China people, will always be with heaven and earth! Great, my China boy, will live with the motherland forever!
This passage comes from Liang Qichao's On young chinese in the late Qing Dynasty.
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Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China and the national crisis was unprecedented. 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' shameless abuse, correct the servile psychology of some people in China, arouse people's patriotic enthusiasm, and arouse national pride and self-confidence, Liang Qichao wrote this article on young chinese in due course.
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