With five and a half years' study and life in Hunan No.1 Normal University as the main performance background, Mr. Cha described the enterprising study and life of a group of outstanding young people represented by Cai Hesen, Xiang Jingyu and Yang Kaihui from 19 13 to 19 18 and their pure and beautiful love stories, and at the same time shaped Yang Changji and Kong Zhaoshou. It profoundly reveals the realistic theme of how students should learn and how teachers should educate people, which is closely related to today's society, and well shows the aspirations and feelings of a group of young people in their prime, represented by Mao Zedong, who take the world as their responsibility. This is of great practical significance for building the socialist core value system, improving the current educational concept and establishing the correct ideal pursuit of contemporary youth.

The first chapter introduces

Changsha, Hunan 19 13. Kong Zhaoshou, then president of Hunan First Normal University, went to visit his classmate Yang Changji who was studying in Japan. I wanted to invite him to teach in the First Division, but I met Tan, the governor of Hunan Province, who also hired Yang Changji as the provincial education director. Faced with a high-ranking official, Yang Changji declined the appointment of the Governor's Office, but agreed to consider teaching in the First Division. The daughter of Tao, president of Changsha Chamber of Commerce, took a fancy to a book "Reading Records of Dahua Zhai" in a bookstore. Unexpectedly, this book was also taken a fancy to by a tall young man. The young man left angrily because he had no money to buy books. Tao Siyong caught up with him and gave the book to the young man. The young man asked Siyong's name and address, but Siyong refused to tell him. The young man could only follow him and shouted, "Come and find me, and I will live in the Xiangxiang Guild Hall in front. My name is Mao Zedong. " Because his father didn't support him to study, he borrowed money from Xiao Zisheng and learned that the Xiao brothers were going to take the Peking University exam. Mao Zedong, who has long been interested in Peking University, couldn't help coming. In order to raise tuition, he had to go home and ask his father for money. Mao Yichang, who has always regarded his son's study as a raffish, wants his son to be an apprentice in a rice shop. Mao Zedong refused to agree, and they had an argument. In a rage, Mao Zedong left home.