(argumentative essay)

After crossing the intersection, we often have this experience: the red light ahead is tens of seconds, surrounded by a group of impatient pedestrians. Transverse vehicles, shuttling away. At this time, the red light has not stopped, and a group of people around are anxious to go straight.

So, I ran a red light with others, but I forgot the principle I should have adhered to. Crossroads often test us: Are we blindly following the crowd? Or stick to the principle?

Huang Yonghou, a painter, once faced such an artistic "crossroads". On one occasion, his friend Fan Ceng recommended him to hold an exhibition in Japan. At the same time, it is proposed that "painting Li Bai is Li Bai and painting Du Fu is Du Fu, so don't digress".

Is it to follow the custom? Or stick to your principles? Obeying popular customs is indeed a good opportunity to raise awareness, especially today when the market establishes the value of painters and their works, which is even more attractive. But Huang Yonghou flatly refused, because he insisted on his painting principles, and his paintings expressed himself. He doesn't have to hold an art exhibition, but he doesn't want to cut his feet and make any changes in his painting style. The pennant that Liu Haisu gave him was "Men should not be vulgar".

At the crossroads of life, sticking to one's own principles reflects lofty and tenacious character. "Wealth can't be lewd, poverty can't be moved, and power can't be bent" is the eternal guiding light when life is confused.

Huang Yonghou's insistence on his own creative principles stems from his indifferent contempt for money and fame, and maintains a literary character. His indifference reveals a stubborn self-confidence. He often refuses people who spend a lot of money on paintings. "What's the use of painting if you don't look at it?" But you can just stuff the painting into an envelope and send it to a familiar or unfamiliar friend.

It's really easy to give up principles and follow desires. To stick to principles and resist temptation, we really need to have strong faith and perseverance, and be able to bear loneliness and poverty. In the past, many writers had their own creative principles, but in the modern society where fast food culture is so prevalent, some people gave up the dignity of literati and became booksellers: some people wrote as they liked. Others see that the practices of their peers seem to be profitable, so we can see so many colorful romance and martial arts novels in bookstores, but few excellent works with simple and substantial contents.

In the face of the crossroads of life, if the morality and principles of being a man of letters are sublimated into national justice and responsibility to the country, then all material temptations are floating dust and smoke.

Qian Xuesen, a famous scientist, stayed in the United States for twenty years from 1935 to 1955. Against the background that the motherland is facing difficulties and the living conditions in the United States are superior, he resolutely decided to return to the motherland. In the process of returning to China, he met all kinds of difficulties. However, these did not change his mind to return to China. In the end, Qian Xuesen returned to the motherland and made great contributions to the aerospace industry of the motherland. He led the development of space science and technology in China, and will always be admired by the people of China. The superior living conditions in the United States are just a speck of dust in the eyes of a noble with personality and national dignity. It is the need of the motherland, the great righteousness of the nation and the responsibility to the country, which makes him strengthen the ethical principles of intellectuals.

Faced with such a crossroads in life, many people can't resist the temptation of interests, lose the principle of being a man, violate the party discipline and state law, and betray the state responsibility. The political tycoons exposed by the media thought that they could not resist the temptation, abandoned the party discipline and state law, accepted the first huge bribe, and were doomed to go in the wrong direction and embark on the road of no return. Even those who defected from abroad will be extradited to China in accordance with international judicial procedures and punished by national laws. "Skynet is long, sparse and not leaking."

There is always the noise of cars coming and going at the crossroads, and the crossroads of life is full of more temptations and dangers. It is precisely because of this that we need endurance and perseverance more, in order to maintain inner peace and sobriety at the chaotic crossroads and get the sublimation of personality.