Last year, the fourth issue of Essays published one of my essays: On One's Responsibility. This article has won praise from many readers for me. Everyone appreciates my frank and sharp speech, "What people say is not done, but what people say is afraid to say". (A letter from a reader) However, some readers appreciate my argument and agree with it, but they still have a knot in their hearts. An old friend wrote: "As the old man said, we billion people really have nothing to do with the rise and fall of the country?"

This sentence is very serious. According to my small-scale "opinion poll", many people have the same question. Therefore, I can't stop writing an article "Every man has a responsibility" as an excuse and supplement.

The focus of the problem is what Gu called "the rise and fall of the world". In ancient Chinese idioms, the meaning of the word "Xia Tian" is often not fixed. It can refer to the whole world, the whole country, one dynasty or many dynasties. The ancients did not have the national consciousness as we do today. They often refer to a dynasty and a regime as "the world". Ancient Yanwu shouted with anxiety: "Every man is responsible for the rise and fall of the world." He was anxious about the crisis of the Ming regime. When Zhu Yuanzhang came to power in Mongolia, Gu Yanwu said that "the world" was booming. Zhu Youjian committed suicide in Jingshan Park, and Li Zicheng entered Beijing. He said that "the world" was dead.

Therefore, the rise and fall examples I cited in On the Responsibility of Ordinary People are all the rise and fall of a dynasty. Of course, we ordinary people are not responsible for this rise and fall. I believe what I said is correct, and all readers agree.

We don't use the word "Xia Tian" now, even if we are writing ancient Chinese, we dare not use it. At present, this word means "international", "world", "global" and so on. In the future, the word "interstellar relations" should be scrapped.

In China, the East Asian continent, there have been many dynasties, some of which replaced each other and some coexisted. Han, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing are all China; Seven Heroes in the Warring States, Three Kingdoms and Sixteen Countries, Five Dynasties and Ten Countries in the Northern and Southern Dynasties all belong to one China in the eyes of ordinary people and historians.

We have many nationalities. Although they were once giants from Huaxia to Han, all barbarians, barbarians, Rong people and Rong people belong to the same Chinese nation, despite their respective political, economic and social structures and even the establishment of their own national titles. "If you lead the land, are you the king?" And "all men are brothers within the four seas".

Nations rise and fall, dynasties rise and fall, and China will exist forever.

China people are responsible for the country. After many natural and man-made disasters such as violent storms and landslides, this country has always maintained itself, and it has not died or been killed.

China's greatness, in the final analysis, is attributed to China's "mortal", while saints, sages and bureaucratic politicians are absent-minded!