National spirit is the spiritual support for the survival and development of a nation. A nation, without inspiring spirit and noble character, cannot stand on its own feet among the nations of the world. The advancement and backwardness of a national spirit depends on whether it can conform to the trend of the times and the trend of history. The ancient world once produced more than 20 different civilizations, but most of them were lost in the long river of history. The reason is that these civilizations or national spirits can't adapt to the new situation and have to finally withdraw from the historical stage. In the long-term practice, our party has led the people to combine the development requirements of the times and society and enriched our national spirit. At the present stage, in the face of the mutual agitation of various ideologies and cultures around the world, we must take carrying forward and cultivating the national spirit with patriotism as the core as an extremely important task in cultural construction, and bring it into the whole process of national education and spiritual civilization construction, so as to keep all the people in a high spirit. Patriotism has different connotations in different times, which is a historical category and has different specific contents in different stages and periods of social development. Lenin once said: Patriotism is "the deepest affection for our country that has been consolidated for thousands of years". What we call patriotism, as a lofty spirit reflecting people's deep feelings for the motherland, is closely related to promoting historical development, safeguarding national independence and the fundamental interests of the broad masses of the people. During the new-democratic revolution, patriotism was mainly manifested in the struggle to overthrow the reactionary rule of imperialism, feudalism and bureaucratic capitalism and transform the dark old China into a bright new China. At the present stage, patriotism is mainly manifested in devoting to the cause of building and defending socialist modernization and promoting the reunification of the motherland. Comrade Deng Xiaoping pointed out: "The people of China have their own national pride and pride. It is the greatest glory to love the motherland and contribute all one's strength to building the socialist motherland, and it is the greatest shame to damage the interests, dignity and honor of the socialist motherland. " This is an incisive summary of the characteristics of China's patriotism at this stage. Contemporary college students are the mainstay of China in the future, and their ideological quality directly affects the quality of China in the future. Cultivating their patriotic spirit and improving their patriotic consciousness is an important task of building a socialist spiritual civilization with ideology as the core. It is related to the success or failure of the four modernizations and the rise and fall of the motherland. 1. Patriotism refers to a trip to serve the country on the basis of knowing and loving the motherland. Its organic unity is true patriotism. Therefore, patriotism education must make great efforts to guide college students to know, love and serve the country, so as to understand the motherland, learn patriotic knowledge and related theories, strive to stimulate college students' patriotic feelings, and strive to cultivate young people's aspirations and positive actions to join the four modernizations of the motherland. These are the three basic links of patriotism education. 2. Knowing the country can be patriotic, and "the depth of knowledge" can be "the cut of love". Do college students know the motherland well now? Some survey data show that they really don't know much about the history of the motherland, the tradition of the Chinese nation and the basic theories of Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought. Therefore, they lack understanding of the decadent nature of feudal old China and capitalism, sometimes they can't scientifically analyze and correctly treat some problems in history and reality, and are prone to all kinds of prejudices. Therefore, the key to patriotism education is to help college students understand the past, present and future of the motherland through various effective ways, so as to urge college students to cherish the glorious history of the Chinese nation and believe that the Chinese nation will always stand among the nations of the world. Patriotism is the core of our national spirit and an inexhaustible spiritual power to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. "Patriotism formed in the long-term historical development is a concentrated expression of the national spirit. Whether there is a high national spirit is an important measure to measure the strength of a country's comprehensive national strength. " A person can't live without spirit, and a nation can't live without spirit. If a nation or a country does not have its own spiritual pillar, it means that without a soul, it will lose its cohesion and vitality. In the history of our country, patriotism has always been a banner to mobilize and inspire people to unite and struggle, and it is the spiritual pillar of people of all ethnic groups. It has played an important role in safeguarding the reunification of the motherland and national unity, resisting foreign aggression and promoting social progress. Inspired by the spirit of patriotism, our country and nation have become stronger and stronger, with strong cohesion and vitality. As college students in the new century, we should set up lofty ideals. A person can only enjoy youth once in his life. When he was young, he closely linked his life with the people's cause, and he created eternal youth. We should persist in studying hard and be eager for success. 2 1 century, information exchange is increasingly extensive, and knowledge update is greatly accelerated. The situation is convincing and encouraging. If we want to keep up with the pace of the times and make better contributions to modernization, we must study, study and study again to lay a solid foundation of knowledge. In learning, we should be good at innovation and practice, and be good at applying what we have learned to the activities of transforming the subjective world and the objective world, so as to become talents continuously. We should pay attention to honing our moral character. Good moral character is very important to a person's life. Today, when the whole society advocates honesty and pays attention to civilization, young college students who have become intellectuals should establish a correct world outlook, outlook on life and values, establish a correct view of fame and fortune, strive to cultivate good moral quality, improve comprehensive quality and personality quality, and be beneficial to the motherland and the people. The prosperity of the country, the prosperity and happiness of the people, and the consolidation and development of the socialist system require the efforts of several generations, a dozen generations or even dozens of generations. Hardship can temper people, and entrepreneurship can make people. Only by following the trend of the times, being diligent and thrifty, and working hard, can we truly combine the future and destiny of individuals with that of the country and the nation.