The anchor reads the classics and accompanies you to say goodnight. Hello everyone! Here is lightning night reading, I am Yucheng Rong Media anchor Pang Weiwei. On the occasion of the "May Fourth" Youth Day, tonight I would like to share with you Mr. Li Dazhao's article "Youth and Life" (excerpt).
Youth and Life (Excerpt)
Wen | Li Dazhao
I am now on the direction of modern youth activities, a little Chen said, I hope my dear youth listen!
First, modern youth should be active in the lonely aspect, not in the lively aspect. Recently, I often hear people say, "We young people must endure this lonely life." I think this "lonely day" is not a miserable situation, but a happy state. I feel that all the light in the world is found in loneliness. For example, when there is a winter in a year, it is a lonely day of the year. At this time, the trees withered and yellowed, the weather withered, the dead silence, and the calmness were all his characteristics. But wasn't the most beautiful spring of the year discovered from this lonely winter? One day has a dark night, and it is also a lonely day. At this time, all kinds of dust are noisy, and there is a moment of rest. But isn't the brightest dawn of the day discovered from this lonely night? What is contained in the bustle is depression and dissipation; what is contained in the darkness and loneliness is all happening, all creation, all light. In this way, this lonely day is really a day of taste and fun, not a day of enduring suffering and loving sin, and we are really happy, not patient. Moreover, the days that can be endured will not last long. If a person always feels patient with a kind of life, and in his heart, he must recognize that this lonely day is a kind of suffering, a kind of trouble, then it is easy to abandon him and find a happy life. Because avoiding suffering and seeking pleasure is the nature of human nature, the reluctantly reserved heart is unreliable. What is enjoyable is a kind of fun, and what can be endured is a kind of reservedness. Oh youth! We must not carry out our activities in the aspect of loneliness with the slightest reluctance to hold back, but we must know that there is a real taste, a true light, and we are willing to live this lonely day, so that we can find true interest in this lonely day and get a day of true light.
Second, modern youth should be active in the aspect of suffering, not in the aspect of joy. Originally, the two realms of bitterness and happiness are comparative, not absolute. Which bitter? Which Music? It is all up to the subjective judgment of the individual, and there is no certain standard. I once had a fallacy that the fun of life is to seek pleasure in suffering, that suffering is the duty of life, and that we young people should practice the skill of enduring suffering. Later, I felt big mistake. Avoiding suffering and seeking pleasure is the nature of human nature, and doing it behind nature's back is either reluctant or hypocritical. This hard-working outlook on life is a reluctant outlook on life, a hypocritical outlook on life. The view of life that seeks pleasure is the natural outlook on life, the true outlook on life. We should conform to nature, stand on the truth, seek the light of life, and not fall into the realm of reluctance and hypocrisy, and return the real life to disillusionment. However, although seeking pleasure is the nature of human nature, the state of suffering always occurs because of this state of pleasure, and it is always entangled, so how should we get rid of this? I have a new opinion on this point, but whether it is appropriate or not, I myself have not dared to be confident. I think that the best way to seek pleasure in life is to respect labor. All happiness can be obtained by labor, and all suffering can be liberated by labor. The laborer, of course, has no hardship to follow him. This truth can be said from both the material aspects of the spirit. Labor is the source of all material abundance, and all goods are the result of labor. None of the chairs we sit on, the pens and ink we use to write, the rice we eat, the water we drink, or the clothes we wear, are not derived from labor. It's easy to know. As for the spiritual aspect, all suffering can also be used to exclude him and liberate him with labor. This is something that most people don't pay attention to. A person who has nothing to do all day is already a great suffering in itself; and in the time of nothingness, all improper desires, uninteresting thoughts, are born of gaps; tired and lazy blood, full of body and mind, all sorrows and troubles, and thus come, so we want to think of a way to entertain. This method of pastime, apart from labor, has no proper law. Oh youth! You must know that those who work hard really do not know what suffering is. For example, if you are tired, if you go to work for a moment and a half, you will be very happy. In the middle of winter, if you go out in a foreign car, you will be frozen and trembling, if you walk for ten miles and five miles, you will feel warm all around you. A good way to avoid suffering is labor.
About the Author:
Li Dazhao (李大钊), courtesy name Shouchang, was born on October 29, 1889 in Daheituo Village, Laoting County, Hebei Province. From the age of seven, he studied in the township school, entered Yongpingfu Middle School in 1905, and entered Tianjin Beiyang Law and Politics College in 1907. In his youth, witnessing the perilous situation of the country and the dark situation of society under imperialist aggression aroused patriotic enthusiasm and determination to seek a way out for a suffering China. After the fruits of the Xinhai Revolution were stolen by Yuan Shikai, he began to publish articles exposing that the rule of warlords and bureaucrats had only deepened the national disaster and the suffering of the people. In 1913, He traveled to Japan to study at Waseda University in Tokyo. After the Chinese government of Yuan Shikai put forward the twenty-one conditions for the subjugation of the country, it participated in the patriotic struggle of the General Association of Students Studying in Japan in Japan and sent the "Letter to the Fathers and Elders of the Whole Country" to the country. At this time, I began to come into contact with socialist thought and Marxist doctrine. After returning to China in 1916, he actively participated in the emerging new cultural movement. In his article "Youth", he called on young people to "break the shackles of history, cleanse the filth of history, create the life of the nation, and save the youth of the nation."
He actively attacked the old etiquette and old morality, and waged a fierce struggle against the reactionary forces that brought up Confucius to maintain his rule. The victory of the October Socialist Revolution in Russia in 1917 greatly encouraged and inspired Comrade Dazhao. He gradually and clearly stood on the marxist standpoint and became the earliest Marxist and communist in China.
On April 28, 1927, Comrade Li Dazhao was the first to walk on the gallows and calmly take up his righteousness. He was not yet thirty-eight years old.
In order to commemorate Comrade Li Dazhao and carry forward his great communist revolutionary spirit, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China moved the coffin of his wife Comrade Zhao Shulan (1883-1933) to the newly built Li Dazhao Martyrs Cemetery on March 18, 1983.
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