Celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China, the third in a series of reviews on "patriotic theory"
Born in a chaotic world, Li Dazhao, like many benevolent people in China at that time, still "shouldered morality with iron shoulders" when he was a teenager, resolutely embarked on a road of saving the country and saving the people, became one of the forerunners of China's earliest discovery of Marxism, the "treasure of national rejuvenation", and took the lead in seeing the dawn of China's road of salvation and rejuvenation from the October Revolution in Russia.
Li Dazhao's 9-year-old hand-copied "Retranslating the Rich Country Policy".
The young man has a pure heart and a heart for "making up for the heavens"
Familiar with the "Four Books" and "Five Classics" since childhood, Li Dazhao was deeply influenced by traditional Chinese Confucian thought, and has always had a deep home-country isomorphic complex and patriotic feelings in his heart. At a young age, he developed the habit of caring about current affairs, and whenever he heard Mr. Li Dazhao talk about the eight-power alliance invading Beijing and the signing of the Xinugu Treaty, which led to huge reparations for China, Li Dazhao was always indignant and depressed. These "bereavements" and "insulting state affairs" made him angry, made him cry, made him think deeply, changed from spontaneous to conscious, and finally embarked on a path of seeking the truth, saving the country and saving the people.
The young Li Dazhao had the ambition to "make up for the heavens", just as he said in "Self-Description in Prison": "Zhao ziziffed himself and received books, that is, he was determined to strive for the cause of national liberation." ”
When Li Dazhao was 9 years old, he was in the midst of the Penghu Reform Law. One day, he saw a book in the same village at the home of a village sage, and he loved it so much that he decided to copy it by hand. This book is a translation of the British economist Fawceder's "Outline of Political Economy" by Chen Chi, a famous reformer in the late Qing Dynasty, and the translated title is "Retranslating the Rich Country Policy". This incident also confirmed that Li Dazhao had been in contact with Western studies for a long time and had a great ambition to seek a good strategy for saving the nation.
The Office of the Director of the Peking University Library, a place to spread Marxism.
Peking University's "Red Chamber" is committed to matching "Chinese Medicine"
The sound of a cannon from the October Revolution made The Chinese people with lofty ideals see hope and strengthen their ideals. While singing the praises of the October Revolution, Li Dazhao has paid attention to combining the experience of the October Revolution with the practice of the Chinese revolution and found a useful "prescription" for a poor and weak China.
At the end of 1917, Li Dazhao came to Peking University as the director of the library. In October of that year, the "Red Chamber" built by Peking University was completed, and the library moved here with the headquarters and liberal arts. The "Red Chamber" became an important place for Li Dazhao, Chen Duxiu, Mao Zedong and others to spread Marxism, democracy, science and progress.
The Marxist Research Association founded by Li Dazhao at Peking University used the "Red Chamber" library director's office as a garden to disseminate the basic theory of Marxism to young people. During his tenure at Peking University, Li Dazhao often poured out his family to alleviate difficulties, help poor young people, and support revolutionary activities, so that when the school paid salaries, he had to pre-deduct a part of the salary directly to his wife, so as to avoid the family life being unsustainable.
Many young people embraced Marxism under the influence of Li Dazhao, and some of them became prominent activists in the early days of the Chinese Communist Party, such as Deng Zhongxia and Gao Junyu. Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai were also influenced by him. In 1936, Mao Zedong talked with Snow in Yan'an and said with deep feeling: "When I was working as a library assistant at National Peking University under Li Dazhao, I rapidly developed in the direction of Marxism. ”
The "Red Chamber" of Peking University has become the birthplace of the Chinese revolution to sow the seeds of communism and the cradle for revolutionary leaders to gather wisdom. It can be said that the "Red Chamber" of Peking University and the "Red Boat" of Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, can be called the "red cradle" of the Communist Party of China.
"Chinese Martyrs' Character Stories" from the book Li Dazhao.
Generously go to the difficulties, compose the prologue of the "Country of Youth"
In April 1927, during the white terror of the reactionary warlords, Li Dazhao was arrested and imprisoned. He was tortured in all kinds, always unyielding and righteous, and was brutally killed by reactionary warlords at the age of 38.
He Jun, who had witnessed Li Dazhao's execution and was then the judge of the Beijing Normal High Trial Tribunal, wrote an article entitled "Witness to Li Dazhao's Martyrdom", saying: "Li Dazhao was full of vigor and a cheerful chest, and he did not know that he was also a person with a closed window. Commander Yun: "You and others can forward the incident on behalf of the family members as to how to deal with the incident." Li Dazhaoyun: "I am a communist who believes in communism, I know that there is a doctrine and I do not know that I have a home, and I die for the doctrine. 'The executioner of the whirlwind ascended the left rope of the gallows and stood facing south, and one of the executioners took two hands in reverse, wrapped his whole body and folded the rope and knotted the ring, looking unchanged. Finally, Li Dazhao shouted "sacrifice for the sake of ism" and resolutely extended his neck. ”
Because of his incomparably firm pursuit of truth, Li Dazhao can be "full of spirit", can "look at ease", and can "be generous to difficulties". Although Li Dazhao was strangled by the reactionaries, his spirit guided the Communists forward and gave communism a "glorious victory" in China.
In the article "Youth", Li Dazhao calls on young people to "go forward and do not care about the back, turn their backs on the black and turn to the light, enter civilization for the world, create happiness for mankind, and use the youth of me to create the family of youth, the country of youth, the nation of youth, the human being of youth, the earth of youth, the universe of youth, and the endless life of capital." Li Dazhao composed the prologue of "The Country of Youth" with practical actions, boiling blood, and sincere patriotism.
Li Dazhao once said, "If the Chinese people have no patriotism, their country will always perish." His patriotic heart was always beating. He truly achieved "courage to forge ahead", "to achieve success with all his strength", and "to cut off his head and bleed from it", infecting, influencing, and inspiring generations of revolutionaries, builders, and strivers, and devoting himself to the journey of creating a "country of youth".
Re-reading Li Dazhao's deeds, looking at the history of blood and fire, and listening to the "youth country" declaration like Huang Zhong Dalu, we can more deeply feel Li Dazhao's firm pursuit of truth and arduous exploration of China's road. His touching deeds, lofty character, and firm faith have brought strong spiritual strength to the communists and guided us to move forward towards the Chinese dream of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
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