Wen Tianxiang, a national hero in the Southern Song Dynasty, was defeated and captured, and spent three years in a dungeon, repeatedly refusing to discuss with the enemy. One day, Kublai Khan personally persuaded him to surrender, and Xu served as prime minister. He did not waver, but said firmly, "I just want to die for my country."
Before the execution, the executioner came forward and said, "Premier Wen, if you change your mind now, you can not only avoid death, but also become the prime minister." Wen Tianxiang in anger, "dead died. What nonsense are you talking about! "
Wen Tianxiang's generosity to the South left a touching song of benevolence and righteousness for the world.
Chen Tianhua sent a bloody book from afar.
When Chen Tianhua, a revolutionary, was studying in Japan, he heard that the Russian army invaded Manchuria, and the corrupt and incompetent Qing government wanted to sign a private treaty with Russia, humiliating the country. Deeply saddened, he immediately held an anti-Russian meeting among international students, organized volunteers to exclude Russia, and prepared to return to China to participate in the war.
After returning to the dormitory, he bit his finger, wrote a bloody book of saving the country with his bloody finger, and stated the tragedy of national subjugation in the bloody book. When the suffering of the conquered nation inspired his compatriots to fight ... he wrote dozens of articles in a row and finally fainted because of excessive blood loss, but his mouth was still salty: "save the country!" Save the country! "
After someone woke him up, he insisted on putting the bloody book in an envelope and sending it back to China from Wan Li. Everyone who saw it was moved. Wu upholds national dignity.
Wu, an old revolutionary, went to Japan to study when he was young. 1On New Year's Day in 904, due to the poverty and weakness of China in the late Qing Dynasty, the Japanese Empire looked down on China and deliberately did not fly the China flag among all the flags. In order to safeguard the dignity of the country and the nation, Wu stepped forward and solemnly proposed to the school on behalf of the students studying in China that they must apologize to the Japanese students immediately and correct their mistakes, otherwise they would hold a strike and hunger strike.
Under the strong pressure of patriotic students from China, the school authorities had to admit their mistakes and apologize.
Yang Jingyu joined the anti-Japanese war.
Yang Jingyu, a national anti-Japanese hero, was the commander of "South Manchuria Anti-Japanese Allied Forces" and was killed in battle 1934 to 1940. In six years of hard struggle, he took the lead in cracking down on the Japanese aggressors in Baishan Heishui and Linhai Xueyuan. In the face of the enemy's heavy encirclement and suppression, Yang Jingyu led the troops to fight tenaciously, which made the enemy restless and restless. Monsieur beaucaire was afraid and hated him, so he assembled a heavy siege. When someone advised Yang Jingyu to surrender, he said flatly, "No, I have my beliefs." Finally, the ammunition ran out, and Yang Jingyu died heroically after playing the last bullet. The enemy brutally cut open his stomach with a bayonet. There is not a grain of rice in Yang Jingyu's stomach, only bark, grass roots and cotton wool.
Scientists devote themselves to the motherland.
From 65438 to 0946, the famous mathematician Hua was hired as a tenured professor by an American university with favorable conditions. But he replied: "in order to choose the truth, for the country and the nation, I want to return to China!" " "Finally returned to Peiping (now Beijing) with his wife and children. After returning home, he not only devoted himself to theoretical research, but also traveled to 23 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions all over the country, and solved a large number of practical problems in production with mathematics, so he was known as the "people's mathematician".
In addition, there are famous geologist Li Siguang, biologist Tong Dizhou, nuclear physicist Qian Xuesen, high-energy physicist Zhang Wenyu and chemist Tang Aoqing ... all of them are full of patriotic enthusiasm and have made great contributions to the country's rejuvenation.
Andersen broke up with his old friend.
Andersen, a famous Danish fairy tale writer, and Augustinburg, Germany turned out to be good old friends.
1848 Prussia invaded Denmark, which caused great anger of Andersen. Four years later, he went to Germany. Many German friends rushed to the station to meet him. A friend said, "The Duke and Duchess of Augustburg are waiting for you at home. I hope you can meet them. " "I don't want to see them. Four years ago, Augustinburg participated in Prussia's invasion of Denmark. How can I meet this family? " Andersen said angrily. From then on, two old friends broke up.
"Take my heart back to my motherland"
Chopin, a famous Polish composer and pianist, 19 years old was already famous when he graduated from the Conservatory of Music. Later he decided to go abroad for further study. At the farewell party held by friends, friends gave him a silver bottle filled with the soil of the motherland. This silver bottle has been with him 19 years. /kloc-in the autumn of 0/849, Chopin was seriously ill and dying. Before he died, he told his sister who came from Warsaw: "The reactionary Polish government will not allow my body to be transported back to Warsaw, but will bring my soul back to the motherland."
Bai Juyi sympathizes with people's feelings.
Bai Juyi, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, sympathized with the people. When he was an admonisher before the emperor, he wrote many letters demanding the abolition of bad politics and wrote a lot of satirical poems to expose the crimes of bureaucratic forces harming the people. He writes poems to make people understand them. According to legend, every time he writes a good poem, he has to read it to an illiterate old mother. Only when he understands it can he take it out. When he is a local official, he tries to do as many things as possible that are beneficial to people everywhere. When he was a secretariat in Hangzhou, he built a lake embankment (now the West Lake Bai Causeway) and irrigated the land with lake water. In Suzhou, the construction of water conservancy projects is also loved by Suzhou people. When he was the secretariat of Zhongzhou, he made many reforms to benefit the people and called for land reclamation. Improve tax methods, increase the tax of the very rich, and reduce the burden of poor farmers; Try to save money and reduce the expenses of ordinary people. He personally took the lead in planting trees and greening barren hills. He presided over the mass rally, sat on the floor and enjoyed himself with the masses. Some officials said: "It is not appropriate to mix' expensive' with' cheap'." Bai Juyi turned a deaf ear to this argument. Later, the people of Zhongzhou built a "white temple" for him in memory of this good official who loved the people. Celebrity and erudition
Wang Chong of the Eastern Han Dynasty was eager to learn from childhood, and his family was poor and had no money to buy books. He studies in Luoyang Bookstore every day and studies hard year after year. He listed more than 10,000 volumes of six books in Hanshu. Artistic and literary records, such as Six Arts, hundred schools of thought, Poetry and Fu, life books, and technical skills. As long as he survived at that time, he read almost all of them and became a famous philosopher and thinker. The masterpiece Lun Heng has a great influence on later generations.
Cao Xueqin in Qing Dynasty was not only a famous novelist, but also an accomplished poet. His contemporaries praised him for his "peculiar writing style". He is also an excellent painter, especially in painting stones. In his masterpiece A Dream of Red Mansions, the knowledge involved includes medicine, psychology, music, poetry, geography, architecture, clothing, garden art, customs, cooking and so on. Cao Xueqin's extraordinary talent and profound knowledge can be seen.
Zu Chongzhi, a famous mathematician in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, calculated that pi was between 3. 14 15926 and 3. 14 15927. For the first time in the world, he calculated the exact value of pi to 7 decimal places. This is earlier than Europe 1000 years. Therefore, a mathematician in Japan once suggested that pi be renamed as "ancestral rate". He is also good at studying Wang's calendar and machinery. He compiled the Ming Calendar, and measured the number of days in the Tropic of Cancer, that is, the time between the winter solstice and the sun for two years, which was only 50 seconds different from the results calculated by modern astronomical science. He created Water Mill, A Thousand-Li Ship and South Guide Car. He is also a scholar who studies Confucian classics and a hundred schools of thought, and annotates books such as Laozi, Yijing, The Analects of Confucius and The Book of Filial Piety.
Guo Moruo is a famous writer, poet, historian, playwright, archaeologist, ancient literary writer, calligrapher and social activist in modern China. He is a famous scholar with profound knowledge and outstanding talent in the history of modern culture. 192 1 published the first collection of poems, Goddess, and put forward the idea of "literary revolution" with great significance in the history of modern literature. A series of research works, such as Research on China Ancient Society and Research on Oracle Bone Inscriptions, creatively combine the study of ancient characters with the study of ancient history, opening up a new world of historical research. "Bronze Age" and "Ten Books of Criticism" are quite original in the textual research on the social history of pre-Qin and the evaluation of hundred schools of thought's philosophical figures. Guo Moruo wrote many poems, novels, plays, historical, philosophical and political papers, and translated many world famous works. The Collected Works of Mo Ruo amounts to 17 volumes. Guo Moruo's erudition is the result of his hard study all his life.
Mao Zedong is a famous Marxist revolutionary, strategist, theorist and poet in modern history. Although he has no higher education, he is knowledgeable and popular with the world. Mao Zedong loved reading all his life. I borrowed books everywhere when I was young, and I was a frequent visitor to the library when I was young. During the war, he was a brave soldier, and he often chose not to roll. After liberation, he entered Beijing. As the main leader of the party and the country, he is very busy, and he still insists on reading. According to incomplete statistics, from 1949 to 1966 in September, he borrowed nearly 2,000 kinds of books and more than 5,000 volumes in major libraries in Beijing. Just two years before his death, 1974, nearly 600 books, 1 100 books were borrowed. Books can be found everywhere in courts, beds, desks and reception rooms in Mao Zedong. Reading is Mao Zedong's greatest hobby in his life.