Self-titled Portrait is a seven-character quatrain created by modern writer Lu Xun. In the first sentence of this poem, the author pours out the patriotic feelings accumulated in his heart, the second sentence describes the reasons for his love and hate, and the third sentence summarizes the first two sentences and makes a turning point.
It reveals the anguish and anxiety of feeling "compatriots are not awake". The last sentence is to die for the country, which expresses the author's determination to resist imperialist powers and the spirit of dying for the country. The whole poem is sincere, vigorous, passionate and well-structured.
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This poem was written around 1903, and the imperialist powers' ambition to carve up China became more and more obvious, and they kept on invading crazily. The people of China, rich in revolutionary tradition, are unwilling to endure humiliation and oppression, bravely fighting against Eight-Nation Alliance and opposing imperialist aggression.
At this time, China is in an era of unprecedented national crisis and extremely painful people's lives. Since the Opium War 1840 and China's closed-door policy was broken.
190 1 year, the struggle entered a new stage, and the old democratic movement led by sun yat-sen flourished. At this time, the revolutionaries took Tokyo, Japan as the activity center, and vigorously publicized the political ideas and revolutionary ideas of overthrowing the Qing Dynasty and establishing the Republic of China.
Patriotic students studying in Japan responded one after another, publishing newspapers, magazines, books and carrying out revolutionary propaganda, calling on the people never to be "hungry ghosts of the Qing government" but to be "revolutionary warriors". The author Lu Xun 1902 went to Japan with patriotic enthusiasm.
As soon as he arrived in Japan, he took an active part in this anti-Qing patriotic revolutionary activity. 1903 published "The Soul of Sparta" in Zhejiang Tide, praising the Spartans for fighting the invaders with their lives and blood, so as to criticize the rulers of the Qing Dynasty for humiliating the country and losing power.
Awaken the fighting spirit of China people and resolutely cut off the braid symbolizing feudal tradition and racial oppression. On the back of a photo with a braid cut off, I wrote this poem and gave it to my friend Xu Shoushang to express my determination to die for my country.
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