The continuous struggle for national rejuvenation - written on the occasion of the 110th anniversary of the Xinhai Revolution

History can often be seen more clearly after the precipitation of time.

"It is urgent to save the people from water and fire, and to help the building will fall." The Xinhai Revolution, which broke out 110 years ago, with its thrilling power of the times, opened the floodgates of China's progress, explored the road for the development and progress of the Chinese nation, and became a majestic milestone on the great journey of national rejuvenation.

For more than a hundred years, the mountains and rivers have changed the human world dramatically.

Today's China, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, through the continuous struggle of the whole party and the people of all ethnic groups in the country, has achieved the first centenary goal, comprehensively built a moderately prosperous society on the land of China, historically solved the problem of absolute poverty, and is moving towards the second centenary goal of building a modern socialist power in an all-round way. The sons and daughters of China at home and abroad are seizing the historical opportunity, shouldering historical responsibilities, and continuing to struggle for the realization of the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

The tide rises and destroys the decay

It is autumn and the hero city of Wuhan is picturesque. The streets and alleys exude a busy or calm temperament.

Wander around the city, look closely at the street names, Zhongshan Road, Sanmin Road, Shouyi Road, Uprising Street, Minquan Road... The smoke cloud of history has become an indelible mark of the city.

It's also an autumn day. October 10, 1911.

The crisp sound of gunfire cut through the sky of Wuchang City.

People at that moment may not have thought that the gunshots from the eighth battalion of the Hubei New Army Project would bury China's monarchical system of more than two thousand years and write the first stroke for the future of China's more than a hundred years of grandeur.

After a night of fierce fighting, the revolutionary army occupied the whole city of Wuchang;

Subsequently, all provinces across the country responded;

On the first day of 1912, the Republic of China was established and the first democratic republic in Asia was born;

On February 12, 1912, the Qing Emperor abdicated, and the supreme imperial power that had been indispensable collapsed.

The wind swept through the clouds and destroyed the decay.

Echoing back from the shocking guns of Wuchang City, through more than half a century of time, you can hear the rumbling cannons of the British fleet of the Opium War bombarding the Chinese coastline. The "Heavenly Kingdom" was closed and stagnant, and was far behind the wave of industrial revolution that was "sharper than a thousand years". Since then, China has fallen into a dark situation of internal and external troubles, and the people of Chinese have experienced the deep suffering of broken mountains and rivers and the people's lack of livelihood.

Where is China going?

The benevolent people who love the motherland have struggled to find this question.

The lamentations of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the premature death of the Foreign Affairs Movement, the disillusionment of the Penghu Reform Law, the bankruptcy of the New Deal at the end of the Qing Dynasty... No wonder Tan Sitong lamented: "There is nothing in the world to reach the spring sorrow, and he cries and rests with the heavens." Forty million people burst into tears, where is the divine state at the end of the world? ”

Many failures prove such an inevitability: "The ignorance of axioms is the clarity of revolution." The old customs are all there, that is, they are removed by revolution."

It was in this great tide of history that the bourgeois revolutionaries came onto the stage of history.

Dr. Sun Yat-sen was a great national hero, a great patriot, and a great pioneer of China's democratic revolution. He held high the banner of opposing feudal autocratic rule, resolutely threw himself into the cause of democratic revolution, founded the Xingzhong Association and the League Association, put forward the Three People's Principles of nationality, civil rights, and people's livelihood, actively disseminated revolutionary ideas, extensively united revolutionary forces, launched armed uprisings continuously, and ran everywhere and shouted loudly to promote the democratic revolution.

Under the banner of revolution, the awakened people of the Chinese nation, with their lives, youth and blood, "shouldered the floodgates of darkness" and opened the "awakening of Asia".

After the failure of the Anqing Uprising, Xu Xilin, the leader of the "Guangfu Army", was awe-struck in the public court and said bluntly: "Er waited to kill me, cut my heart off, broke my hands and feet, and shattered my whole body.

——After the failure of the uprising and was arrested, the hero Qiu Jin was unyielding and unyielding, and wrote a desperate poem of "autumn wind and autumn rain sad people", calmly and righteously.

-- Lin Juemin, one of the Seventy-two Martyrs of Huanghuagang, wrote in a farewell letter to his wife, "Also think of the people of the world, when Yi Le sacrifices the welfare of my body and the body of Ru, and seeks eternal happiness for the people of the world", and generously died.

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Revolution, revolution! Wake up, wake up!

The dry wood of the revolution has long been laid out throughout the country. The sound of gunfire at the head of Wuchang City finally ignited the raging fire of the Xinhai Revolution.

The fire of the Xinhai Revolution overthrew the Qing Dynasty and ended the absolute monarchy that had ruled China for thousands of years. However, due to the constraints of the historical process and social conditions, the Xinhai Revolution did not change the social nature of the semi-colonial and semi-feudal society of old China, did not change the tragic fate of the Chinese people, and did not complete the historical task of realizing national independence and the liberation of the people.

Even so, as Lenin pointed out, the merits of history are judged not on the basis that historical activists have not provided what modern times demand, but on the basis that they have provided something newer than their predecessors.

In the view of Zhang Haipeng, member of the Faculty of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the spiritual soul of the Xinhai Revolution is the spirit of patriotism. At that time, it was precisely because the country was poor and weak, the nation was in danger, and the people were in plight and suffering that people with lofty ideals wanted to use revolution to overthrow the corrupt rule of the Qing Dynasty and issue a cry of "saving the country and trying to survive" and the roar of "rejuvenating China." It is precisely under the inspiration of the spirit of patriotism that the Chinese Communists have undertaken the unfinished business of their predecessors and continued to struggle, so that a vibrant socialist China can stand tall in the east of the world.

"Under the new historical conditions, when we commemorate the Xinhai Revolution, we must vigorously carry forward the spirit of patriotism and unswervingly guard and build our great country along the road of socialism with Chinese characteristics." Zhang Haipeng said.

Passing on the torch, the mission is on the shoulders

At No. 24 Wenhua Hutong, Xicheng District, Beijing, a simple and quiet courtyard, Li Dazhao spent nearly four years here.

"Zhao Zishu sent a book, that is, he was committed to working hard for the cause of national liberation, practicing what he believed, and practicing what he knew..." In the former residence, an immersive drama called "The Fire Sower" told the story of Li Dazhao's life of "shouldering morality with iron shoulders and writing articles with clever hands.".

Through the smoke and dust of history, the time is dialed back to the early years of the Republic of China. Li Dazhao rejoiced at the achievements of the revolution, the establishment of a republican system. However, the fruits of the revolution soon fell into the hands of the Beiyang warlords headed by Yuan Shikai. Li Dazhao, who was very concerned about the fate of the country, had keenly felt that there were "hidden worries" in the new republican system. In 1913, he pointed out sharply with anger and bitterness: "The republic is self-republic, and happiness is not for our people!" ”

Despite the abdication of the emperor, warlords everywhere still fought endlessly; although the braids on their heads were cut, the "braids in their heads" still existed; the aura of Asia's first democratic republic could not hide the tragic situation of being bullied and divided by the great powers...

In their search, advanced elements who are struggling to save the country and survive and to strengthen the country and enrich the people ask: Where is China's way out? Where is the hope of the nation?

The sound of a cannon in the October Revolution brought Marxism-Leninism to China, like a lightning bolt piercing the night, bringing hope to the old China, which was deeply suffering. More than a year later, the May Fourth Movement split the iron curtain of old China, awakened the sleeping soul in the dark night, and promoted the wide spread of Marxism in China.

Spread in a heated debate, selected from the comparison.

Dong Biwu, Lin Boqu, Wu Yuzhang, and some other members of the Old League, activists during the Xinhai Revolution, Li Dazhao, Mao Zedong, and other revolutionaries who were deeply influenced by the Xinhai Revolution, turned their attention to Marxism and gradually transformed themselves into communists.

On July 23, 1921, the air in Shanghai was humid and hot.

At No. 106 Wangzhi Road, in an inconspicuous Shikumen building, the stars and dots were lit up, and the CPC Congress was held here. Since then, the Chinese Communists have stepped onto the stage of history.

Why is the republican system struggling in Chinese society? One of the important reasons for this is that the Xinhai Revolution did not launch in depth the revolutionary might hidden among the masses of the people. Only by arousing the awakening of hundreds of millions of people can we change the destiny of the Chinese nation.

Realizing this, the Communists represented by Mao Zedong undertook the historical mission that the Xinhai Revolution had failed to fulfill, devoted themselves to "arousing millions of workers and peasants to work with one heart" and to create a revolutionary road of encircling the cities in the countryside and seizing power by force.

Along the way from the agrarian revolutionary war, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and the War of Liberation, the Chinese Communists have transcended and sublimated in the inheritance of the spirit of the Xinhai Revolution, led the broad masses of the people to win the victory of the new-democratic revolution, and fulfilled the national independence and people's liberation that countless benevolent people have dreamed of in modern times.

At this moment, the Chinese people who have experienced hardships and struggles in modern times ushered in the dawn of the rebirth of the Chinese nation .

"The Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China was established today!"

At 3 p.m. on October 1, 1949, Chairman Mao Zedong solemnly proclaimed to the whole world in an impassioned tone. The cheers of the shaking sky stirred in Tiananmen Square.

Dressed in a dark cheongsam, Soong Ching Ling stood on the city tower, looking at the surging crowd in front of him, and looking at the portrait of Dr. Sun Yat-sen standing on the square, he couldn't help but burst into tears. 8 days later, she told the world about the moment at the Tiananmen Tower-

"Years of great struggle and arduous deeds have appeared before my eyes again. But another thought caught my mind, and I knew that this time there would be no going back, no going backwards. This time, Sun Yat-sen's efforts finally bore fruit, and this fruit seemed so beautiful..."

Facts speak louder than words. The Communist Party of China unites and leads the Chinese people, and always strives to practice the original mission of seeking happiness for the Chinese people and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation.

Self-reliance and indignation have created great achievements in socialist revolution and construction, and have laid the fundamental political premise and institutional foundation for realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

Emancipating the mind and forging ahead have created great achievements in reform, opening up, and socialist modernization, and have provided institutional guarantees and material conditions for rapid development that are full of new vitality for realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, the Communist Party of China has united and led the Chinese people, self-confidence, self-improvement, integrity and innovation, taking charge of great struggles, great projects, great causes, and great dreams, creating great achievements in socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, providing a more perfect institutional guarantee, a more solid material foundation, and a more active spiritual force for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and the Chinese nation has ushered in a great leap from standing up and getting rich to becoming strong. Realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has entered an irreversible historical process.

Forge ahead together towards rejuvenation

On the west bank of the Pearl River Estuary, Cuiheng New District, Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province, the hometown of Dr. Sun Yat-sen.

Today, the east and west main towers of the Linglingyang Bridge of the Deep And Middle Passage have been capped. By 2024, after the official opening of the 24-kilometer-long Shenzhen-Zhongshan Corridor, the drive from Shenzhen to Zhongshan will take only 20 minutes.

It's not just the distance that gets closer. The spiritual power of "daring to be the first in the world" extends far and wide.

"Revitalize China"! In 1894, Dr. Sun Yat-sen shouted the strongest voice of the times for the first time in the "Constitution of the Xingzhong Association".

More than a hundred years ago, this great pioneer of the democratic revolution conceived a grand blueprint in the "Founding Strategy".

At that time, william Duana, an Australian, shook his head at the map of China that Dr. Sun Yat-sen had drawn full of railway lines and said, "This thing like a game puzzle is simply impossible to achieve." ”

"The ideal of 'rejuvenating China' is difficult to realize in modern Times when China's national fortunes are weak, the system is corrupt, and wars are endless. Only under the leadership of the Communist Party of China can we find the correct path to national rejuvenation. Li Jie, president of the Chinese Historical Society, said.

"We have traveled all over the country and watched the vitality of the country, and today's railways, highways, ports, water conservancy, electric power and aerospace industry construction achievements have far exceeded the imagination of Dr. Sun Yat-sen." Dr. Sun Yat-sen's great-nephew Sun Bida is very proud.

A strong country and a happy people are the dreams of the Xinhai revolutionaries.

It is bordered by the Yellow Crane Tower to the west, Snake Mountain to the north, and Shouyi Square to the south. The Wuchang Uprising Memorial Hall of the Xinhai Revolution in Wuhan was once the governor's office of the Military Government of the Republic of China, and now it has become a landmark for the people to understand the history of the Xinhai Revolution.

On September 30th, the "Exhibition of Pictures and Historical Materials of The Characters of The First Righteousness of Xinhai" held to commemorate the spirit of Shouyi was held at the Memorial Hall. In the exhibition hall, a banner of "The World is Public" handwritten by Dr. Sun Yat-sen attracted many visitors to stop.

Throughout his life, Dr. Sun Yat-sen insisted on "the world is just" as the highest ideological realm, devoted himself to "removing the people's sorrows and seeking happiness for the people", and led the revolutionaries to be unswerving in this goal.

Today, the Chinese people have historically solved the problem of absolute poverty, and there is no longer a year of famine or the plague of frostbite, and they have embarked on a broad road of comprehensive well-off and common prosperity.

"Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, our country is prosperous and strong. As a member of the Communist Party and a descendant of the revolutionaries of xinhai, I am very proud and believe that this must have been expected by our ancestors. Xiong Yongzhu, the eldest grandson of Xiong Bingkun, who fired the first shot of the Wuchang Uprising, said excitedly.

The united Chinese nation is the common root of the sons and daughters of China at home and abroad, and the Chinese dream of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is the common dream of the sons and daughters of China at home and abroad.

Recently, in a residence in Beijing, Lin Shangyuan, president of the Huangpu Military Academy Alumni Association, veteran of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and his son Lin Jiping, president of the Hong Kong Whampoa Military Academy's Descendants OfFirence and Friendship Association, were interviewed by reporters.

Although Elder Lin Shangyuan is 97 years old and Lin Jiping is nearly old, the father and son have always used the Huangpu spirit as a link to unite Huangpu students at home and abroad and their descendants to promote the peaceful development of cross-strait relations and the process of the peaceful reunification of the motherland.

"My maternal great-grandfather was Zhang Nanxian, the elder of the Xinhai Revolution who participated in the Wuchang Uprising, and the sad history of the country's broken mountains and rivers has been deeply rooted in their marrow, and China is a unified country and has been firmly imprinted in their consciousness. What we have done is to inherit their spirit and contribute to the unity of the country. Lin Jiping was very determined.

Realizing the complete reunification of the motherland is where the fundamental interests of the Chinese nation lie, and it is also the common aspiration and sacred duty of all the sons and daughters of the Chinese nation. Ensuring the integrity of the country from being divided and safeguarding the fundamental interests of the Chinese nation is the common will of all the sons and daughters of the Chinese nation and an irresistible historical trend.

"Standing at the historical crossroads of the 'two hundred years' struggle goal and thinking about the Taiwan issue, we will clearly understand that national reunification is an inevitable requirement for national rejuvenation in the new era, and resolving the Taiwan issue and realizing the reunification of the motherland is the proper meaning of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation." Zhang Haipeng said.

The infinite past is destined for the present, and the infinite future is based on the present.

More than three months ago, in Tiananmen Square, the conference to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China was solemnly held, and General Secretary Xi Jinping looked forward with sonorous and powerful words.

"With the strong leadership of the Communist Party of China and the close unity of the people of all nationalities throughout the country, the goal of building a socialist modern power in an all-round way will certainly be realized, and the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation will certainly be realized!"

(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 8, reporters Wang Qi, Sun Shaolong, Wang Ziming, Ren Qinqin, Liao Jun, participating reporters Yu Pei and Cha Wenye)

Guangming Daily ( 09 October 2021 edition)

Source: Guangming Network - Guangming Daily