The army exists because it is related to territory, and territory is important because it is related to the survival of the country. Therefore, when the national territorial security is threatened, the patriotic people can't wait to run to the border and share the same enemy. This kind of patriotism, from the powerful to the Li people, never sets limits, just like Gu in the Qing Dynasty said, "Those who protect the world, every man is cheap, have no responsibility." This sentence is the origin of the well-known "every man is responsible for the rise and fall of the country". Although this sentence was formed very late, the patriotic feeling of "taking the world as your own responsibility" was formed very early. As early as more than two thousand years ago, in the Book of Songs, there was a poem "No Clothes" that firmly expressed the spirit of uniting as one and resisting the enemy. The poem said:
Have I nothing to wear? Robe with your son! Wang Yuxing, fix my spear. Hatred with my son!
Have I nothing to wear? Take your son! Wang Yu started the division and repaired my spear and halberd Work with your son!
Have I nothing to wear? Take your son! Wang Yu started his division and trained our soldiers. Go with your son!
This is a war song of Qin people in the pre-Qin period when they resisted Xirong's invasion. The poem says heroically, who says that there is insufficient armament? Once there is a need to fight, wear the same shirt and accompany you to the battlefield and go to the national funeral! This poem is also the source of the word "Paoze", which refers to brothers and comrades-in-arms with deep friendship in the army.
Love the motherland, starting from loving the country, cherish every inch of mountains and rivers like your body and skin, and regret every loss like you regret losing your life. Therefore, after experiencing the Jin Bing's invasion of Song Dynasty, Lu hated "only seeing Kyushu sadly" at the last moment of his life. Therefore, Chen Tianhua was indignant and questioned "how good a country was handed over" in China, a land carved up by the great powers; For this reason, after signing the treaty of shimonoseki with Japan in the Qing Dynasty, Huang Zunxian said bitterly that "an inch of mountains and rivers is an inch of gold" and even more earnestly cried that "people should wake up today and don't wait for the soil to crack!"
If patriotism begins with loving the country under your feet, then national subjugation begins with losing an inch of territory. A levee of a thousand miles collapses in an ant nest, and throwing a brick is often a prelude to the collapse of the building.
Therefore, patriotism is rooted in local land first, and every inch of land is contested, because we have the responsibility to defend the land.