Our generation seems superfluous.
We were born under the wave of socialism, and our fathers accomplished the feat of creating a new China. With the spring breeze of reform and opening up, we slowly began to yearn for the outside world, and our thoughts, words and deeds were far more and more distant from the expectations of our fathers. We resented the old-fashioned old-fashionedness of our fathers, and they didn't like our freedom and looseness.
The conflict between old and new ideas, the fathers who have experienced the smoke of war, look at us all day long with wine and food and idleness, calling us "the Beat generation".
One
Starting from the non-mainstream of the "Funeral Love Family", the shape of killing Matt, the sudden emergence of various new technologies, we let go of our nature and run amok. We have experienced every journey of China's new era development, Weibo Water Army, ab two stations, Tieba era.
We have witnessed the emergence of China's online new media from scratch, and the old people who cannot accept new things say that we are deviant, the fathers who once struggled hard for the construction of new China say that we enjoy our success, and the previous generation who experienced the Great Depression of the Revolution said that our lives are as sweet as honey.
When the world first flourished, we were indeed confused.
We have not experienced the 25,000-mile Long March of our grandparents and do not understand what the red spirit is; we have not experienced the three-year arduous liberation war, we do not understand what is the spirit of the War of Resistance; we have not experienced the scientific research of the rapid development of New China from a poor and white country to a large economy in the world, and we do not understand what is the spirit of construction.
Born rich, we seem to have no strength.
Two
Are we really broken?
In the uncertain doubts of our fathers, we stumbled and began to grow up with our motherland.
From the return of Hong Kong in 1999 to the Beijing Olympics in 2008, the motherland is strong and we are growing. However, the road to growth is always so hard and long.
From the SARS virus that spread across the country in 2003 to the Sichuan earthquake in 2008, in the face of disasters, the whole country has devoted all its strength to protect our safety. In the isolation ward full of viruses, or on the dusty ruins of broken walls, the pace of the motherland to rescue us has never stopped.
At that time, we were teenagers.
Three
This year, as if history from decades ago were repeating itself, with more intractable viruses, more rapid spread, and more sources of infection.
The difference is that at this point, we are no longer teenagers. In 2003, we will devote our national efforts to protect the growth of our generation, and in 2020, we are willing to do our best to restore the health of the world.
We regret that we missed the red time full of faith of the previous generation, nor did we witness the difficult growth of the motherland from childhood to maturity, and it is difficult for us to imagine the ambition and pride of our fathers who were born with no worries about food and clothing.
But luckily, we finally grew up.
That night, the disease struck in silence. We went to the battlefield together, and everyone was a warrior to participate in this war without smoke.
From wanderers studying abroad, to intern doctors who have just graduated from medical school for a few years, or soldiers who have just entered the army, all walks of life have done their best to go to the front line.
Perhaps we do not understand the hardships of the Red Army's Long March, do not know the artillery fire of war, and have not seen the Daqing oil field with the spirit of iron man.
Maybe we deviate from the scriptures, sit back and enjoy their success, and do not do the right thing. But we have grown together in the glory and disaster of the motherland, and we have also realized the supreme glory of the towering China. Although we cannot clearly appreciate the heavy casualties of the war from the scattered rubble and rubble, we also realize the truest appearance of the disaster from the ruins of the ruins and broken walls.
We are not a Beat generation.
China will never have a Beat generation. The spirit of the fathers and fathers to build a new China is like a torch, and the fire of hope is constantly burning. The old and the new alternate, although the predecessors are gradually getting old, but there will be new torches added, continuous inheritance, the torch of heroes continues to live, passed down from generation to generation.
We are the descendants of heroes, and we will inevitably inherit the indomitable spirit of struggle of our ancestors when they created new China, and the torch will never be extinguished.
Now, it's our turn to guard the next generation. In this battle, everyone is a warrior, and we post-90s and post-80s are willing to be the vanguard!