As sons and daughters of China, we all deeply understand that in the long river of China's development, it has gone through such a period of history: it is like a tunnel, although the time spent in it is not long, but the Chinese people have paid a high price for this, they have poured their flesh and blood to achieve this glorious period - this is the modern history of the Chinese nation.
In this era of internal and external troubles and national peril, the country is not a country, and the danger of the nation is about to come out. However, there is a group of spirited young people who rise up, martyr the country, integrate their personal souls with national spirit, and stay in that proud and fleshy age forever. On their deathbed, they calmly and lightly wrote down, but they spilled out a sentence of passionate last words, which aroused the infinite feelings and endless admiration of the sons and daughters of China in later generations.
Today, let us take this admiration, look back at the dying words of these warriors, walk into the five most famous classic last words in China's modern history, and feel the heroism and foresight of a generation of great people.
Martyred as the soul of the revolutionary Tao nation
Tan Sitong, a famous politician, thinker, and reformist figure in modern times, together with Kang Guangren, Lin Xu, Yang Shenxiu, Yang Rui, and Liu Guangdi, is known as the "Six Gentlemen of Pengshu". After the failure of the Wushu Reform Law, Tan Sitong insisted on staying in spite of the persuasion of others, calmly and righteously with a frank color, and was finally beheaded at Caishikou in Beijing, sacrificing his flesh and blood for the revolution.
At the time of his execution, the executioner's blunt knife fell one knife after another, and the blood poured outward one by one, but Tan Sitong smiled and looked up and shouted: "There is a heart to kill the thief, powerless to return to heaven, die where it is, hurry up, hurry up!" "What a tragic and bold statement, what a resolute belief and spirit, we can't help but sigh!
Sun Yat-sen was the pioneer of China's modern national democratic revolution, the great forerunner of China's democratic revolution, and the advocate of the Three People's Principles. He took the lead in raising the banner of thorough anti-imperialism and anti-feudalism, exhausted his life's energy for the revolutionary cause, and left indelible merits in history.
In his will before leaving, he wrote that "the revolution has not yet succeeded, comrades still need to work hard", and even the moment of the death of a generation of great heroes is always related to the lifeblood of the country and the future of the nation -- he condensed the essence of an era in just a few words, marking the direction of the progress of a generation of Chinese sons and daughters; with a short life, he interpreted the meaning of being born as a Chinese people. This kind of great righteousness, this perseverance after death, is something that the Chinese nation needs to remember and learn from generation to generation.
Heroic struggle sued Chinese flesh
Li Hongzhang, a famous minister of the late Qing Dynasty, one of the main leaders of the foreign affairs movement, together with Zeng Guofan, Zhang Zhidong, and Zuo Zongtang, was known as the "Four Famous Ministers of Zhongxing". In his lifetime, he experienced many national struggles such as the Taiping Army, the Pacification of the Twist army, the foreign affairs movement, the Sino-French War, the Sino-Japanese War, and the Boxer Rebellion.
In his later years, the Qing government not only did not let him enjoy the happiness of heaven, but also granted him important positions such as the viceroy and the minister of Beiyang. The elderly Li Hongzhang scrupulously fulfilled his duties, bowed to the best of his ability, wrestled with foreigners with illness, and signed the "Xinugu Treaty" with 11 countries on behalf of the Qing Dynasty. Or he felt that his limit was coming, and wrote a "desperate poem" shortly before his death: "The laborer's carriage and horse have not left the saddle, and the person who is on the verge of death knows that it is difficult to die." For three hundred years, he has injured the national pace and hanged the people eight thousand miles away. Autumn Wind Sword Lonely Lord's Tears, Sunset Banner Grand Admiral Altar. The overseas dust atmosphere is still not extinguished, and the kings are waiting for idleness. It is said that this is a poem written by Li Hongzhang before his death, a generous and tragic song, a story of life, a generation of national leaders can only use helplessness and warnings to admonish future generations, lamenting the lonely nation, trying to awaken the sleeping and inactive people, but it is really sleeping forever in the cause of China's awakening.
Zhang Zizhong, a lieutenant general of the Chinese Kuomintang with the rank of general, was a famous anti-Japanese general and national hero. From 1937 to 1940, he participated in the Battle of Linyi, the Battle of Xuzhou, the Battle of Wuhan, the Battle of Suizao and the Battle of Zaoyi. In 1940, he was killed in a battle with the Japanese army in Xiangyang.
It can be said that from the very beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he had the determination to "serve the country and die"; whenever he went to the battlefield, he fought bravely and tragically, and he would write a letter before each war and tear it up when he returned. On the eve of the Battle of Zaoyi (the battle in which he died), he left two letters, one to his generals and the other to his adjutant general, but did not leave a single word for his family. The letter to the general reads: "The country has reached such a point that there is no other way but for me to die for it. I believe even more that as long as I can make this determination, our country and the nation of our five thousand years of history will never perish at the hands of the three islands of slavery. The determination to die for the country and the nation, the sea is not clear, the stone is not rotten, it will never change in the slightest, and it is willing to encourage it with all the brothers. In the face of the Japanese invasion, he was not afraid of danger, and galloped on the battlefield with a calm heart of death, showing the unrivaled pride and bloodiness of the Chinese nation!
The slender pen shaft shows the Chinese qi bone
In fact, this kind of heroism is not only reflected in those national heroes who fought in the front line and the young generals who have bathed in bloody revolutions, but also a group of people who use their own pens to beat the sinking of the times and write the courage of China with vivid words. Wang Guowei is the representative figure among them, he spreads advanced ideas with one work after another, trying to save the situation of peril, and when he finds that the country is almost in danger and the nation is no longer what it used to be, he resolutely throws himself into the lake with his own sustenance and sadness. Posterity found his suicide note in the pocket of his clothes, which contained only a short number: "Fifty years, only one death is owed." After this world has changed, there is no more humiliation", what a resolute tone, he is not a warrior, not a general, but he used the pen to write the Chinese backbone of "the danger of the country, I will never live", which had to make people sigh and awe.
Therefore, although modern China is a country in danger, it is by no means a cowardly country, and heroes and great people have practiced the pride of China with their own actions; the determination to die with their bodies has demonstrated the courage of the nation... But the so-called, although the country is in danger, the people's hearts will not fall, and the soul of the nation will not disperse!