In modern Chinese history, "Save the Nation" has always been a theme, especially after the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War.
Although the Western powers have always bullied the Manchu, they still regard the Manchu as the "talker" of the East Asian order. After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, Japan shook the position of the Manchu .
Sino-Japanese War Memorial of Sino-Japanese War
Many aspiring young people, while disappointed with the imperial court, traveled to Japan and tried to learn from Japan's experience in revitalization.
Faced with the increasingly unbearable situation, a righteous man from Hunan Chen Tianhua wrote "Warning Bell" and "Returning Head" , and he was heartbroken to write: "Which inch of this land is still owned by our people; this court, It was originally to be a native officer for foreigners."
In order to awaken the insensitive Chinese, he chose to commit suicide .
If the Chinese nation is dead, unless the people of Hunan die to death
Although Chen Tianhua is dead, his spirit inspires others.
Yang Du
, his Hunan fellow, the great talent Yang Du in the late Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, wrote "Hunan Youth Song":
"China is now Greece, Hunan is regarded as Sparta, China will be Germany," Hunan is regarded as Prussia. The monarchs and monarchs are so cautious, do not say anything is rushing. If the Chinese nation is fruitless, unless the people of Hunan die to death. If there is no pain, the right person will not take it. Long, but the mind can end."
The poem is magnificent and impassioned throughout, especially the sentence , "If the country is fruitless, unless the people of Hunan die to death" , the patriotic youth in Hunan has a strong feeling Encouraging effect.
Yang Du's words are very emboldened, and facts have proved that they are veritable.
started from the Taiping Rebellion, announcing the strong rise of the Hunanese.
Hunanese Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang, Hu Linyi and others started their careers with group training, and with almost one province, they suppressed the Taiping Rebellion. Z3z
Zeng Guofan
Zeng, Zuo, Hu and others in the film and television dramas are different from the previous regional military power groups. They not only contributed their efforts, but also developed their ideas and systems, and compiled a new army that was completely different from the Qing army.
was hailed as the first professional diplomat and Hunanese who advocated total Westernization Guo Songtao, the forerunner of China's Westernization Movement, and the first old intellectual who saw the crux of China from a political perspective.
Since the rise of the Westernization Movement, the Huxiang atmosphere tends to be open, and the talents and talents are like the crucian carp that crosses the river, constantly emerging.
Z1z Tan Sitong , the most rigid of the six gentlemen of Wuxu, Zuo Fuyoubi Huang Xing, Song Jiaoren who initiated the revolution by Sun Yat-sen, Cai E general who asked Yuan Huguo.
Tan Sitong
New China’s founding fathers of Hunan are even more numerous, Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi, Peng Dehuai, He Long, Luo Ronghuan , ten founding generals, Hunan people accounted for 6: Suyu, Xiao Kecheng, Chen Zheng, Tan Zheng Xu Guangda , this ratio is quite terrifying.
Hunanese are not only men so tough, but women are also scrambling to participate in the revolution.
Hunan pays special attention to the education of women. The Hunan Provincial First Women's Normal School , opened in Changsha, is a famous women's college in the late Qing Dynasty. The first female party member of the Chinese Communist Party Miao Boying came from here. Revolutionary heroes Xiang Jingyu and Yang Kaihui are also students of the school. During the Great Revolution, when the Wuhan branch of the Whampoa Military Academy announced the admission of female cadets, thousands of people signed up in Changsha alone. The admitted female students include:
, Zeng Xianzhi (Zeng Guoquan's great-great-granddaughter), Xie Bingying, Hu Yun, Huang Jingwen, Tao Hengfu, Peng Yuanhua , etc.
, such a heroic Hunanese, also caused the arrogant Japanese invaders to suffer.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Japanese once said that as long as the Japanese invaders base camp circled a city on the map, the city would definitely fall, until they met a hard nail- Changsha !
Battle of Changsha
Three battles of Changsha, annihilating hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops, although the bloody battles of the national army and generals, General Xue Yue strategized the reasons, but Hunan Xiangzi abandoned the personal support front line, a steady stream of troops and material support. The most fundamental reason.
When Japan announced its surrender, the place of surrender was originally chosen in Yushan, Jiangxi. However, in view of the dissent of many high-level people in the Nationalist Government and the suggestion of Wei Demai, the US Chief of Staff in the Chinese theater, Chiang Kai-shek temporarily changed the place of surrender to Zhijiang, Hunan.
The eight-year beacon fires in Lugou, and the sunset at Zhijiang . This is the affirmation of the Hunanese who made major sacrifices and made major contributions during the war.
Why are Hunanese so afraid of death?
The big waves are scouring the sand, and heroes come out in large numbers. The Hunan people used their blood to write a strong and colorful stroke in the history of modern Chinese revolution.
However, it is curious that modern Hunan was not the first province to be civilized. Compared with Guangdong, Fujian, Shanghai and other places, Hunan opened much later.
circulated such a sentence on the Internet: modern Chinese history, the Cantonese revolution, Zhejiang people paid money, Hunan people shed blood , a general summary of the contributions of the people of each province in the crisis of national survival. Z3z
Lian Sun Zhongshan commented on the previous uprisings of the Revolution of 1911, saying, “One person fights a hundred people. Things like this cannot be theorized, or you people from Hunan do it.”
Why can Hunan nurture such a powerful revolutionary spirit?
All human spirits must be found in culture.
Hunan people's magnanimous, resolute, and tenacious revolutionary spirit is largely derived from Hunan culture .
Huxiang culture was first formed in the pre-Qin and Han dynasties. Its origins include Chu culture, Nanban culture, San Miao culture , etc. Qu Yuan’s "Nine Songs" and "Astronomy" and other poetry, vividly represent the earliest cultural forms of the Huxiang region. At the turn of the Qin and Han dynasties, the Chu culture was a self-contained cultural faction that was very different from the mainstream cultures of Central Plains, Guanzhong, Qilu, etc. in the film and television dramas of Qu Yuan
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The slang term "Although Chu has three households, Qin must die" reflects to a certain extent the cultural profile of the self-improvement of Chu.
In the Northern Song Dynasty, a native of Hunan Province who was nicknamed Mr. Lianxi Zhou Dunyi pioneered Confucianism. The Southern Song philosophers Hu Anguo, Hu Hong and his son started lectures at Nanyue Academy and Yuelu Academy, known as Hunan School, modern The Huxiang culture began to take shape.
Yuelu Academy
It can be said that starting from Juan Guo and his sons, the Huxiang school has a distinct regional style. They interpret the Confucian classics such as "Spring and Autumn" and do not advocate blindly picking up the meaning of Lagu in the grave, but prefer the classics. The world is practical, using ancient texts and scriptures to provide theoretical support for the present.
In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, with the blessing of the great thinker, historian, and philosopher Wang Fuzhi (from Hengyang, Hunan), the Hunan culture further formed the values with the main goal of transforming society.
The main criterion for judging the vitality of a culture is its values .
Extroverts are full of tension, introverted tend toThe Huxiang culture undoubtedly belongs to the former.
Yueyang Tower
This kind of value, its specific spiritual appearance is self-improvement, daring to be the first, practical application, regard death as home, patriotic salvation and other strong and distinctive characteristics.
Therefore, in the late Qing and modern times, under the strong national crisis, the Huxiang culture quickly glowed with a strong sense of perception. Wei Yuan, a native of Shaoyang, Hunan, advocated "open your eyes to see the world" .
Wei Yuan’s "Pictures of the Sea Country" is hailed as the most powerful work in modern East Asia. Liang Qichao even stated in "On the Trend of Changes in Chinese Academic Thought" that "Pictures of the Sea Country" was an important part of the Meiji Restoration in Japan. Both have had a huge impact, and they are the "medicine for no turtles."
Japan during the Meiji Restoration period has such a strong ideological and cultural core that Hunanese can demonstrate the strong and fortitude character in the turbulent modern democratic revolution.
Hunanese are often praised as having the spirit of "mule": suffers hardship, is bored with patience, is tyrannical, willing to die, and refuses to submit. The spirit of
is particularly evident in Zeng Guofan.
When the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom uprising broke out, Zeng Guofan relied on his own efforts to organize group exercises, aside from ideology, this spirit alone was invaluable.
The basic condition for the Taiping army to rise is that society has been corrupted, the credibility, organizational, financial, and material resources of the Qing court tend to collapse, and the power of the court is not enough to quell the uprising.
However, Zeng Guofan was able to rely on regional relations, blood ties and cultural ties, from the impossible, to self-reliance, against the trend, to create a powerful Hunan army, and forcibly suppress the Taiping Army.
From a historical perspective, Zeng’s military strategy, military management thoughts, and tough personality are all in a small state. The longer the time, the more obvious the cultural attributes of his perseverance.
Since modern times, both Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek have respected Zeng Guofan. What does this mean? The Zeng family's outstanding features have transcended ideology, but occupied the commanding heights in culture.
Hunan people's psychoanalysis
Hunan culture is based on the Northern Song Dynasty, but whether it is Zhou Dunyi or later Wang Fuzhi, it is the university inquiring family, not the minister, because their academic attitude is too serious and their personality is a bit stubborn. Z3z
The statue of Zhou Dunyi
was promoted to the altar by later generations. Zeng Guofan was actually not very talented, or even stupid. Reading and doing things rely on the stubbornness of the Hunanese.
Because of the inherent perseverance and perseverance of the Hunanese , the natural aggressiveness of , and the external stimulus and influence of , Hunanese are not the first to take the pace of change, but they have come to the top and lead the trend.
Today's Hunan humanity continues the spirit of "not afraid of death" .
They don't emphasize fame and real profit, and they despise formalism. People who have real skills in their hands are the best.
Juzizhou head Mao Zedong statue
Hunan people are relatively independent, in order to pursue the truth, they are not afraid of sacrifice. This is a precious spirit of being helpless and independent.
Their hot personality is also reflected in their love of spicy food. It is said that “Sichuan people are not afraid of spicy food, Guizhou people are not afraid of spicy food, and Hunan people are not afraid of spicy food” .
Hunan today is still the most vigorous Hunan, and the Hunanese today are still the most energetic people.
Hunan people have made important contributions to the cause of modern revolution in our country. The revolutionary spirit of charging ahead has illuminated the land of China. What do you think Hunan people look like?
