What is the connection between Hong Kong’s return at the last minute and the smoking ban in Humen?

The destruction of opium in Humen was the trigger of the First Opium War. The "Treaty of Nanjing" was also signed during this war. In 1842, the Qing government signed the "Treaty of Nanjing" and ceded Hong Kong to the United Kingdom. Therefore, the destruction of opium in Humen Indirectly led to the loss of Hong Kong's sovereignty.

"The Last Minute" is a poem written by contemporary female poet Li Xiaoyu. The author recounts her thoughts on the last minute of Hong Kong's return to the motherland on July 1, 1997, a special moment of historical significance. It expresses the strong patriotic sentiments in the hearts of all Chinese people and their sincere blessings for Hong Kong's bright future after its return to the motherland.

The original text of the poem "The Last Minute" is as follows:

Midnight. Hong Kong, let me hold your hand and listen to the last minute of the stormy return.

Listen to your footsteps getting closer and closer, and listen to the heartbeats and questions of all Chinese people.

The last minute is the shape of the flag,

It is the slowly rising red between heaven and earth, it is the flagpole - the straight backbone of the Chinese people,

It is unfolding, the land and sky of Hong Kong,

It is the moment of silence amidst the joy of the masses, whose slightly trembling lips are in the silence,

who is crying over and over again in tears Once again, gently shout that name:

Hong Kong, Hong Kong, our heart!

I saw that the last wisp of gunpowder smoke over Humen finally dissipated at the last minute after a hundred years;

The torn history textbook , on page 1997,

The scar that goes deep into the bone marrow has cast blood and sword light into our souls.

When a yellowed old treaty quietly fell to the ground, what emerged from the smoke and dust was,

The face of the Great Wall, the face with yellow skin,

It was What is flowing slowly -

A hundred years of pain and joy, all passing through this teardrop,

making the sea boil!

At this moment, it is midnight and early morning.

All eyes are brand new sunrises, and all salutes are the bells of the century.

Hong Kong, let me hold your hand tightly!

Listen to the stormy return at the last minute, then run, hug,

greet the fresh, dew, and fragrant,

take root Deep in the earth, the first redbud.

Extended information

The author of "The Last Minute" is Li Xiaoyu, a contemporary female poet. Born on October 26, 1951. A native of Fengrun County, Hebei Province. He has lived in the army with his parents since he was a child. Under the influence of his family, he was exposed to poetry at the age of four. In 1969, he joined the army and settled in rural Hebei. Two years later, he joined the army and worked as a health worker in a basic unit of the railway corps. He published his first set of poems, "Herb Collection". He has been working in the editorial department of Poetry Magazine since 1976, and joined the Chinese Writers Association in 1983. On February 11, 2015, he died in Beijing due to illness at the age of 64.

Creative background: In 1842, the Qing government was defeated in the Opium War and signed the Treaty of Nanjing with the United Kingdom. Hong Kong Island was permanently ceded and officially became a colony. The Kowloon Peninsula was also permanently ceded in the Treaty of Peking in 1860. In 1898, Britain leased the New Territories to the Qing government for 99 years. The lease expired on July 1, 1997. In the early 1980s, based on the concept of one country, two systems proposed by Deng Xiaoping, China began negotiating with the United Kingdom on the issue of Hong Kong.

On July 1, 1997, with countless eyes around the world focusing on it, the national flag of the People’s Republic of China and the regional flag of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region were slowly raised in the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center. All Chinese people unitedly cheer for the arrival of this great moment and Hong Kong's return to the embrace of the motherland. After a century of vicissitudes, Hong Kong's return to the motherland marks that Hong Kong compatriots have since become the true masters of the land of the motherland, and Hong Kong's development has entered a new era.

The entire poem "The Last Minute" has concise language, full of appeal, and sincere and warm emotions. The author's boiling blood and surging pride are integrated into every word of the poem.

The first stanza is the introduction to the whole poem. The author uses personification to write out people's excitement and expectation in this last minute. The second stanza uses parallelism and uses some close-up shots, such as flags, flagpoles, silence, shouts, slightly trembling lips, etc. to express people's eyes on the rising flag of the People's Republic of China and the regional flag of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. At that time, I felt extremely excited and proud.

The return of Hong Kong to the motherland is a powerful testimony of the motherland’s growing strength and prosperity. It is a great encouragement and encouragement to all descendants of Yan and Huang. Countless Chinese people shed tears of excitement and pride. "Making the country boil" means that the patriotic enthusiasm that bursts out when people's long-awaited wishes are finally realized is very strong and profound. It seems to make the sea boil.

In the third section, the author thinks of Hong Kong’s humiliating history and the unequal treaties imposed on China by Britain since the Opium War, and expresses his current feeling of elation and elation. The "yellow treaties" refer to the "Nanjing Treaty", "Beijing Treaty" and "Special Treaty on Expanding the Boundary Site of Hong Kong". When Hong Kong returned to China, the shame that had weighed on the hearts of the Chinese people for hundreds of years was finally wiped away.

The fourth section writes that Hong Kong has opened a new chapter in history. The author uses enthusiastic and unrestrained language to express his warm welcome to Hong Kong's return to the motherland and his deep blessings for Hong Kong's bright future. "Let me hold your hand" uses personification to personify Hong Kong, and is full of the author's infinite affection for Hong Kong. The author, like all Chinese, welcomes the historical moment of Hong Kong's return to the motherland with passion , wrote the excitement and expectation in the hearts of the people across the country.