[Qing Dynasty, February 1900] Liang Qichao
Japanese people call me China, one is said to be the oldest empire, and then said the oldest empire. This is also the language, cover the translation of the European and Westerners also. Whoops! I China's fruit of the oldest carry on? Ren Gong said: evil! Is what words! Is what words! I have a young China in my mind.
To speak of the country's old and young, please first speak of the old and young people. Older people often think of the past, young people often think of the future. But the past is also, so the heart of attachment; but think of the future is also, so the heart of hope. But if you think about the past, you will have a fond heart; but if you think about the future, you will have a hopeful heart. If you are conservative, you will always be old; if you are aggressive, you will always be new. But thinking about the past, everything is what it has been, so I know the rules; but thinking about the future, everything is what it has not been, so I often dare to break the rules. Older people often worry a lot, young people are often good to have fun. But more worry, so discouragement; but also, so the fullness of joy. But also discouraged, so cowardly; but also full of gas, so bold. But if you are cowardly, then you will take risks; but if you are strong, then you will take risks. But if one is careless, then one can destroy the world; but if one is adventurous, then one can create the world. Older people are often bored with things, and young people are often happy with things. But the thing is also, so often feel all things can not do; but also good things, so often feel all things can not do. The old man is like the sunset, the young man is like the sunrise. The old man is like a barren cow; the young man is like a tiger. The old man is like a monk, the young man is like a warrior. The old man is like a dictionary; the young man is like a play. The old man is like opium smoke, the young man is like brandy. The old man is like the meteorite of another planet, the young man is like the coral island of the ocean sea. The old man is like the pyramids of the Egyptian desert, the young man is like the railroads of Siberia. The old man is like the willow in the fall, the young man is like the grass in the spring. The old man is like the Dead Sea, the young man is like the Yangtze River. This is the old man and the young man character is different from the general also. The Duke of Ren said, "People have their own way of doing things, and the country should do the same.
Ren Gong said: the old man is also hurt! Xunyang River pipa woman, when the bright moon around the boat, maple leaves, coverlet cold in the iron, like a dream, like a dream, think of Luoyang dust in the spring flowers, autumn and moon of the best interest. South of the Western Palace, white-haired egret, a lamp such as spike, three or five pairs of seats, talk about the Kaiyuan, Tianbao between the past, the score of the "Nishang Yuyi song". The green door planted melon people, left to the children, Gu Ling children, remembered Houmen like a sea of beads and tracks a multitude of events. Napoleon's flow in Erdnase, Arar Fei's secluded in Ceylon, with three or two supervisors, or the good people who visited, said that year's short sword and horse galloped through the Central Plains, swept through Europe, the bloody battle of the sea floor, a rebuke, a country shocked by the greatness of the work, the first and patted the case, and then stroked his thighs, and then finally the mirror. Woo-hoo, face chapped teeth end, white hair surplus handle, decadent old! If it is, no heart, no sadness, no heaven and earth; no sun and moon, no sighs, no sound; no business outside of the death. How can this be true of the beautiful and the great, let alone the ordinary people? All my friends and relatives are in the marketplace and graves; I live and eat on call. If today is over, how can I know what will happen next year? If this year is over, what about next year? There is no one in the world who is more discouraged and frustrated than the boss. In this person, and the desire to take the cloud of means, back to the sky of the work, holding the mountain over the sea of the spirit, can not?
Woo-hoo! I China's fruit is old enough? Standing today to point to the past, the Tang Yu three generations, if any of the "rule"; Qin Huang Hanwu, if any of the heroes; Han and Tang to the literature, if any of the flourishing; Kang Qian between the martial arts, if any of the prestigious. Historians of the narrative, the eulogy of the words and chapters of the eulogy, what is not my national youth of the good times and beautiful scenery, enjoy the traces of the happy things! And now the decadence of old age! Yesterday we cut five cities, tomorrow we will cut ten cities, everywhere the birds and mice are exhausted, night and day the chickens and dogs are frightened. The land and property of the eighteen provinces have become the meat in people's arms; four hundred trillion fathers, brothers and children have become the slaves of people's registers; is it not so-called "the oldest married to a businesswoman"? Woo-hoo! I don't want to talk about what happened back then, but I can't bear to look at the emaciated light! Prisoners of Chu are facing each other, precariously looking at each other, and the lives of people are in danger, not worrying about the future. The country is a country to die, and the people of a country are the people to die. The first time I saw this was when I was a student at the University of California, Berkeley, and the second time I saw it was when I was a student at the University of California, Berkeley!
Ren Gong said: I China's fruit of the boss? Today, the whole earth is one of the major problems. If it is the oldest, it is China for the past country, that is, on the earth in the past there was this country, but now gradually drain, the fate of the future will be exhausted. If it is not the boss, then China is the country of the future, that is, this country did not exist on the earth in the past, but now it is gradually developing, and the future of the future is also long. Want to determine today's China for the boss? For the young? Can not help but first understand the meaning of the word "country". What is a country? There is land, there are people, in order to live in the land of the people, and rule the land they live in, self-made laws and self-defense; there is sovereignty, there is obedience, everyone is sovereign, everyone is obedient. If this be the case, then it is called a fully established state. There has been a fully established state on earth since the last hundred years. The fully established is a matter of the prime of life. Those who are not fully established, but are progressing toward full establishment, are also young men. Therefore, I have a word to say: European countries in today's strong country, and I China in today's juvenile country.
The ancient China, although the name of the country, but not into the shape of the country. Or for the family of the country, or for the chief of the country, or for the vassal feudal state, or for a king's dictatorship of the country. Although the kinds of different, to, its in the body of the country also, have its a part and lack of its a part. As a baby from the embryo to become a child, one or two of its body organs and branches, the first to grow up, in addition to all the rough with, but also failed to get its use. Therefore, before Tang and Yu was the embryonic age, at the time of Yin and Zhou was the breast-feeding age, and from Confucius to the present day is the age of the child. Gradually developed, and now is the beginning of the world will enter into the child above the juvenile. Its growth into so if it is late, then the generations of the people thief have stifled its vitality. For example, it is like a sickly childhood, turning into a kind of old age, or suspecting that the time of its death is approaching, but not knowing that it is all unfinished and unestablished. The past is not the past, and the future is also said.
And I China in the past, there is no country? But there is the court ear! I Huangdi descendants, gathering and living, standing in this earth on the thousands of years, and ask why the country's name, there is no. The so-called Tang, Yu, Xia, the name of the country's name. The so-called Tang, Yu, Xia, Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han, Wei, Jin, Song, Qi, Liang, Chen, Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing, are all dynasty name. The dynasty is also the private property of a family. The state is also the public property of the people. The dynasty has the old and young of the dynasty, and the state has the old and young of the state. Chao and the country is a different thing, can not be referred to as the Chao of the old and young for the country of the old and young MingYi. Wen, Wu, Cheng, Kang, the Zhou Dynasty's teenage years. You, Li, Huan, Blush, then its old age. Gao, Wen, Jing, Wu, the Han Dynasty's teenage years. Yuan, Ping, Huan, and Ling were also in their old age. Since the rest of the dynasty, there is nothing. Where this is said to be a court of the old also can be said to be a country of the old also can not. A court of the old and dead, as if a person's old and dead, in my so-called China, why and where. However, my China, before this has not yet appeared in the world, and now is the beginning of the sprouting clouds. The world is big, the future is vast. The first thing that I want to do is to make sure that I have a good understanding of what is going on in the world!
Mazzini, Italy, the leader of the three also. To the national affairs of the crime, fled to a foreign country. It is the creation of a meeting, called "Junior Italy". The country's aspirants, the clouds and fog to respond to it. In the end, the old things were restored and Italy became one of the most powerful countries in Europe. Italy was the first big country in Europe. Since the death of Rome, the land under the Pope, the regime returned to Austria, the so-called old and on the verge of death. And get a Mazzini, and can raise the country and the young, not to mention my China's real for the teenage years! Dang more than four hundred states of the country, austere more than four hundred trillion nationals, is not then no one Mazheni his people!
Gong Zizhen's collection of poems, titled "can make the public juvenile line". I tasted read it, and have a taste of its intent to exist. My national and said that the country's oldest also, the fruit of the oldest; my national and know their country's young also, S Nai Junior carry on. The Western proverb says: "There is a three-year-old man, there is a hundred-year-old child." However, the country's old and young, and no fixed shape, but actually with the national heart to grow. I see that the Mazhini can make the country young, and I also see that our officials and soldiers can make the country old. I am afraid of this! The man with such a magnificent and rich and beautiful and stunning young China, and make Europe and the West Japan said I am the oldest, why? To hold the power of the country are old and rotten people. Non oh decades eight stocks, non write decades white fold, non when decades difference, non pay decades salary, non delivery decades handbook, non sing decades, non kowtow decades, non please decades of peace, will not be able to get an official, into a position. Within the Secretary for two or more, outside the Supervisor of more than one hundred people, the five officials are not ready, almost nine sixteen-seven people also. If you are not blind, then you are deaf; if your hands are not trembling, then your feet are lame, or else you are paralyzed. He is a food and drink, walking, hearing and speaking, and still can not be self, must be three or four people around the help of the catch, is able to spend the day, in this and is to be responsible for state affairs, is not like setting up countless puppets and make the world also! And their generation, since its young and strong when both already do not know Asia, Europa for where the place, Han Zu Tangzong is the emperor of the dynasty, still suspected of blunt corruption of the end of the extreme, but also must be rubbed, pottery, to be its medulla oblongata has been dried up, blood vessels have been blocked, dying, and ghosts neighboring, and then I will be 20,000 miles of mountains and rivers, 40,000,000 people's lives, and a move to give to their hands. I'm sorry! The oldest empire in the world is the oldest! And their generation, accumulated their decades of eight stocks, white folding, working as an official, pay, handbook, singing promise, kowtow, please peace, thousands of pains, thousands of pains, only to get this red top of the plume of the dress, the name of the lord of the middle hall, is out of their whole body spirit, all their life's strength, in order to keep it. Like a beggar picking up a gold ingot, although the thunderstorm hovering on top of it, and both hands are still clutching its purse, other things are not taken care of, not known, not heard. In this and told to the death of the country also, divided also, he Wu thus listen to it, Wu thus believe it! Even if the fruit is dead, the fruit is divided, and I am seventy this year, eighty, but for a year or two, the foreigners do not come, robbers do not afford, I have been living a life! If I have no choice, then cut three head of land in two provinces in exchange for a few of my Yamen; sell three millions of people as servants for slaves, in order to redeem my old life, what is not to do? What's so difficult about that? What's so hard about it? Today's so-called old queen, the old minister, the old generals, the old officials, their cultivation of the body, the family, the country and the world of means, are all with so. The west wind is a night rush people old, withered the white end of the face. Make go changeless when the doctor, with a life-saving charm to wish life, contempt of pain! This is the country, is not old and death, and I fear that it is not the age and death.
Ren Gong said: caused by today's oldest China, China's old man's wrongdoing. The production of the future of the young China, the responsibility of the Chinese young people. His old man is not enough to say, he is not far from the day of goodbye to the world, and I am a young man is new to the world for the sake of the edge. Like a taxpayer, he will move to another place tomorrow, and I am entering this room today. It is not surprising that those who will move to another place do not take care of their windows and bars and do not clean their huts! If I were a young man, I would have a great future ahead of me and no idea what to do afterward. China and for cattle and horses as slaves, then the cruelty of cooking and flogging, only my youth when it. China, such as the domination of the world, the main alliance of the earth, the command of the honor and glory, only my youth to enjoy. What about those whose breath is dying and who are neighbors with ghosts? They are indifferent to it, but also can be said. I, on the other hand, am indifferent to it, and cannot speak of it. So that the country's young people and fruit for young people, then I China for the future of the country, its progress is not measurable. If all the young people in the country are the oldest, then China is a country of the past, and its drain away can be awaited with folded arms. Therefore, today's responsibility lies not in others, but in my youth. If a young man is wise, the country will be wise; if a young man is rich, the country will be rich; if a young man is strong, the country will be strong; if a young man is independent, the country will be independent; if a young man is free, the country will be free; if a young man is progressive, the country will be progressive; if a young man is better than Europe, the country will be better than Europe; if a young man is more powerful than the earth, the country will be more powerful than the earth. When the red sun rises, its path is bright. The river flows out of the ambush, a cascade of the ocean. The submerged dragon rises to the abyss, and its scales and claws fly. The tiger whistles in the valley, and all the beasts are terrified. The falcon tries its wings, and the wind and dust are sucked up. Strange flowers are born, everlastingly. The dry will be whetted, and there is the work of its awn. The sky wears its gray, the earth walks in its yellow. There is a thousand years of history, and eight wastelands across the land. The future looks like the sea, and the days ahead are long. The beauty of China's youth is that it does not age with the sky! I am a young man in China, with the country without boundaries!