Xinmin Quick Comment | "perceives" the spiritual poetry of the revolutionary sages from the "Age of Awakening"

In the past two days, "The Age of Awakening" has been brushed by young people "two brushes" and "three brushes": "I am even fascinated", "I have not fast-forwarded to watch TV dramas in these years", "its every line, every picture, every music can not be missed"...

Pictured: Stills from "The Age of Awakening". Infographic

Why does "The Age of Awakening" deeply infect the younger generation? The key is that this work, which has won many Magnolia Awards, restores the memory of an era in tandem, reproduces the life scenes of the sages who hope to change China's destiny, and also makes everyone feel the gentle education, interesting life, humble personality, broad mind, and independent and unswerving bones of the intellectuals of that era.

Farewell is a theme that often makes young people cry, and it has also deeply touched countless audiences. When the gentle and jade-like president Cai Yuanpei said to Chen Duxiu, "I welcome Mr. Chen to Peking University, as if it is cool in autumn today, but I want to send Mr. Chen to leave, it is not good"; when in 1920, Chen Duxiu was being arrested by the police, Li Dazhao sent him out of Beijing, the two met to establish the party, raised their fists and swore "I am willing to fight for life"; when Chen Yannian and Chen Qiaonian and the brothers were preparing to go to France for work-study, they looked back and smiled, and the camera was interspersed with pictures of their execution site..... Nothing more than a thought to save the life of the people, can there be a period of meeting on the road?

It is really this group of cultural people and prophets and foresights who have been nurtured by Chinese civilization, and in the face of the unbearable fate of the country and the bullying of the Western powers, they have issued an angry cry. In the play, Gu Hongming saw Chen Duxiu and Hu Shi, and always used tea to gargle and spit out contempt, but Cai Yuanpei would swallow the gargle tea directly. Cai Yuanpei is the spiritual representative of Chinese culture: harmony and difference, true gentleman. As the line says: "In our Chinese, there is something indescribable that no other nation has, and that is gentleness." Gentleness is not meekness, let alone cowardice, gentleness is a kind of strength. "Tolerance and kindness are the habits of our readers since childhood, but tolerance and kindness, it is not unlimited!" It was under the influence of Cai Gong's unity that Chen Duxiu, Li Dazhao, Lu Xun, Mao Zedong... A group of sober intellectuals have constantly resisted and actively found a way out for China. At Peking University, even if it is a verbal dispute, he must bow after the debate; even in the same camp, there are countless debates.

"The true Chinese are those who live a spiritual life with a pure heart and an adult mind." Chinese spirit, full of poetry, this group of awakened people are such lovely and respectable people, but they rose up for the fate of the country and the nation. Chen Duxiu's son, Chen Qiaonian, encouraged his fellow prisoners before his sacrifice: "Let future generations enjoy the happiness of their predecessors." "This is how they choose the life of youth and youth death for the ideal.

The inheritance of a country's inner spirit is the root of the nation's enduring life. It is precisely a nation with such character that will give birth to countless naked sons who seek happiness for the people and achieve a century-old party like the Communist Party of China. A generation has a generation's mission, and today's Chinese youth, when "perceiving" and inheriting the spirit of the revolutionary sages, under the leadership of the party, become a patriotic and responsible young force, and create a better tomorrow.

Qin Dan/Wen