The illustration of "The Great River Song" is as follows:
The appreciation is as follows:
The beginning of this poem is majestic, expressing the young Zhou Enlai's journey to the East to pursue his pursuit Determination of truth. Zhou Enlai regarded his study abroad as a purification and training for himself, so he quoted the classic "When the river goes eastward, the waves will pick up all the famous people of the ages" and gave it a positive meaning.
The term "U-turn East" comes from Liang Qichao's poem. When Liang Qichao was in exile in Japan after the failure of the Reform Movement of 1898, he wrote a long poem "Going to the Country". The poem began by saying: "Ugh! The relief is in dire straits and the Confucian crown and appearance are weak, and the sycophant's head is not cut off and the chivalrous sword has no merit. It is not a hero to die at the hands of thieves without avenging your kindness and hatred.
Cie Ci endured tears and went abroad, turning around and ignoring me." The last two sentences said: "The road ahead is Pengshan. Wan Zhong, turn around and ignore our east!" Liang Qichao praised Japan's Meiji Restoration and expressed his desire to imitate the Meiji patriots. Zhou Enlai's ambition to save the country and his desire to seek truth from Japan when he traveled east were somewhat similar to Liang Qichao. In addition, he was familiar with Liang Qichao's works at the time, so he adapted Liang Qichao's poems.
The second sentence "Jieshipo" means "to help the poor in the world", which contains the meaning of helping and relieving the things that are lacking in the world. We can analyze what Zhou Enlai thought was lacking in the world (actually, Chinese society) at that time from the articles he wrote at that time.
In the article "The Crisis of China's Reality" written in November 1916, he believed that China's spiritual crisis at that time was: "The morality of our people has reached the extreme level of decline.