Zhou Enlai's Short Stories [When I was a Child]

At the age of 12, Zhou Enlai vowed to "study for the rise of China".

At the end of 19 1 1, Zhou Enlai studied in Shendongguan Model School. On this day, President Wei personally gave the students a self-cultivation class entitled "All my life". At that time, it was a period of dramatic social changes in China. The Revolution of 1911 led by Sun Yat-sen just overthrew the Qing government and ended China's two thousand years of feudal rule. Many people, especially young people, are confused, have no clear ideal pursuit, and have no goal in life. When the headmaster talked about "making a living", he told the students how to aspire to it.

President Wei suddenly stopped talking about the highlights and asked the students a question: "Why do you study?"

The classroom was quiet and no one answered.

"If no one answers, I will ask them one by one!"

President Wei stepped down from the podium, pointed to the front row and said, "Why are you studying?" The student stood up and said, "study should polish the lintel!" " ""that's for glory. "President Wei replied to the second student: reading is a gift. The third student asked is the son of a shoe store owner. He answered seriously, "I study for my father." The students burst into laughter.

The headmaster was very dissatisfied with these answers, shook his head, went to Zhou Enlai again and asked, "Why do you want to study?"

Zhou Enlai has a high prestige among the students. Not long ago, the Revolution of 1911 was just successful, and he was the first among his classmates to cut off his long braid. This is not a simple matter, because the Manchu government stipulated that all Han Chinese men must wear long braids like Manchu to show their loyalty to the Qing court, and those without braids will be beheaded. Zhou Enlai was the first student to cut off his braid, so everyone admired him.

Zhou Enlai stood up, the classroom was silent, and everyone was waiting for his answer. Zhou Enlai replied very solemnly: "Learn for the rise of China!"

"Learn for the rise of China!" What a good answer! In a word, it expresses Zhou Enlai's great wish of rejuvenating China since childhood.

President Wei didn't expect such excellent students. He was very happy. He motioned Zhou Enlai to sit down, and then said to everyone, "Where there is a will, there is a way!" This means that ambitious young people should learn from Zhou Enlai!

Students, you are students now. What kind of ambition do you have? I think we should learn from our beloved Premier Zhou and make up our minds from an early age. Determined is to set a lofty goal in life, and then, in order to achieve this goal, make unremitting efforts to make contributions to the people and the country, so that life is meaningful.

Why can Zhou Enlai have such great ambitions at a young age? As the saying goes, look big from childhood. Zhou Enlai received a good education when he was young, and he was good at thinking in later research. In addition, his family gradually declined, he tasted the hardships of life and the indifference of society, and also saw the darkness of society at that time. He kept studying, practicing and thinking, and gradually formed his own life ambition, eager for China to take off. Next, I will tell some stories about Zhou Enlai when he was a child.

Zhou Enlai 1898 was born in Huai 'an County, northern Jiangsu Province on March 5th. It is located at the intersection of Huaihe River and Song-Hang Grand Canal, and it is a grassland with abundant water and grass.

Zhou Enlai's grandfather Zhou Diankui was born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang. Later, he worked as a tout in Huai 'an county, and didn't get a position as a magistrate until his later years. However, the former magistrate of a county has a background and refuses to leave his job. Zhou Diankui died shortly after he officially took office, and his family business gradually declined.

Zhou Diankui has four sons, namely, Zhou Gengyi, Zhou Yineng, Zhou Yikui and Zhou Yi (). His father can have his second child on Monday, and his eldest brother Zhou has been working as a clerk in Shenyang. His father also works outside the home and doesn't earn much money. The third son Zhou Yikui was ill for a long time, and the fourth son Zhou Yi (), Zhou Enlai's adoptive father, died in his twenties.

There are three mothers: biological mother and Wan; Foster mother Chen, biological mother Jiang Jiangshi. All three mothers are very kind to him and have an important influence on him. His biological mother taught him to do things, his adoptive mother gave him enlightenment education, and his biological mother mainly taught him to do things.

Wan, her biological mother, is the daughter of a large family in Huaiyin County. Zhou Enlai's grandfather Wan Qingxuan was a magistrate of Huaiyin County, but died shortly after Zhou Enlai was born. Zhou Enlai's biological mother, Shiwan, followed her grandfather since she was a child and often went in and out of government buildings. She has seen the world, and she also supports Zhou Jia's portal website and manages family fortune well. Although the Zhou family is unfortunate, it is a prestigious family after all. On holidays, it welcomes people to see them off and ask for help. Wan's family is well organized and decent. When his biological mother Wan handles these social activities, she always takes them with her, which makes him gain a lot of knowledge. Later, as the Prime Minister, Zhou Enlai was very busy and deeply loved by people all over the country. There is also the influence of the biological mother Wan. Chen, the foster mother, is a knowledgeable teacher and has a great influence on the formation of personality. Chen taught him to read and write since he was a child, and he learned nursery rhymes and Tang poetry and Song ci at the age of five. Wan also told him Yuan, The West Chamber, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Boxer Movement. Zhou Enlai loves his adoptive mother even more than his own mother. He called his adoptive mother his mother and his biological mother his godmother. After the death of Chen's adoptive mother, she wrote an article "Nianniang Wen" and said with deep affection: "Until today, I still have to thank my mother for her inspiration. Without her love, I will not embark on the road of learning. " "My loving mother stays indoors all day, and my quiet character is inherited from her." Zhou Enlai learned to do housework from her wet nurse, which made her understand the life of farmers. Jiang's mother is a clown, but Zhou Enlai likes what she says. She told Zhou Enlai a lot of housework and told Zhou Enlai how many procedures to go through from sowing rice seeds to milling rice; How melon is planted with melon seeds; Why don't some people walk? They are always pulled by rickshaws. One winter, according to Jiang's mother's words, I planted a handful of melon seeds in the flower bed and watered them every day, but the melon seeds just couldn't grow. Zhou Enlai went to ask Jiang's mother what was going on. It turns out that we can grow them only in spring. How do we plant them in winter? The following spring, Zhou Enlai planted melon seeds again. Sure enough, the melon seeds germinated and produced several big pumpkins. Zhou Enlai was very happy. Later, Zhou Enlai recalled: "My mother took me to her home in the Grand Canal, where I learned about the life of working people." While studying in Tianjin, Jiang's mother went to see her despite the difficulties of the journey. Zhou Enlai was very happy. She accompanied Jiang's mother to visit Tianjin, and gave her an enamel bowl when she left, so that she could take care of herself!

1907, Wan's biological mother died of gastric cancer. 1908, adoptive mother Chen Ye died of tuberculosis. At that time, Zhou Enlai had just turned 10 years old, and his father was far away from home, so he had to shoulder the burden of family like an adult. He ruined his two mothers with tears and provoked the burden of life.

The financial situation of the Zhou family is not good, and it takes a lot of money to treat and bury the two mothers. Zhou Enlai had to frequent pawn shops and pawn all the valuable things in his family to make a living. When things were clean, they gritted their teeth and borrowed money from relatives. However, some relatives and friends often visit Wangxing, Zhou Jia. Now Zhou Jia is in decline, but no one helps. Zhou Enlai was very moved by the cold of the world. It is really "poor living in downtown, rich in the mountains, with distant relatives."

Zhou Enlai lives by his own labor. He changed his garden into a vegetable garden and planted corn, pumpkins and beans. At that time, he was still young and not as tall as a hoe, but he was not afraid of hardship and worked hard. In autumn, corn and pumpkin grow very big and become the main rations of a family. The gap between the rich and the poor among the people made Zhou Enlai realize that this was caused by social darkness, and he sprouted anti-feudal consciousness from then on.

When 12 years old, his uncle Zhou entrusted his uncle Zhou Yiqian to take him to Shenyang. My uncle has been single in Shenyang, my aunt is far away in Tianjin, and my uncle is very happy that Zhou Enlai came to Shenyang. He likes to drink Shaoxing yellow wine and often asks his nephew to accompany him for a few drinks.

Zhou Enlai came to Shenyang in summer, but the scenery here is quite different from his hometown. He can't see the beautiful willows on the shore, the boundless green waves, only sparse wildflowers. Originally, my uncle wanted him to go to Shenyang to study, but the school was a monastery. First, he was sent to Yin Gang College, where my uncle lived for half a year. Then he entered Shenyang Dongguan Model School, where he studied for three years.

Dongguan Model School is a new school, which offers many courses, such as self-cultivation, Chinese, arithmetic, history, geography, physics, English, painting, singing and gymnastics. Zhou Enlai likes it. There are many children from wealthy families in the school. Although Zhou Enlai's family background is not good, he studies very hard and is often among the best. It can be said that he has both ability and political integrity, and he is fully developed morally, intellectually and physically. Teachers and classmates like him very much.

During his three years in Dongguan Model School, Zhou Enlai read extensively and learned a lot of knowledge. He listened attentively in class, observed discipline, and finished his homework on time after class. He made rapid progress and got good grades in all subjects, especially composition, calligraphy and English. He ranks first every semester. His compositions are often praised by teachers and circulated in the whole class. Some of his compositions, such as "Speech on the Second Anniversary of Fengtian Dongguan Model School", are novel in conception and incisive in exposition, expressing strong patriotic thoughts, which caused a sensation in the whole school, and were exhibited in the exhibition of educational achievements held in the whole province, and were also included in the book "School Chinese Achievements". Gao Wu Ge, a history teacher, found Zhou Enlai clever, diligent, patriotic and enterprising, and liked him very much. He often lends him some works by politicians and thinkers who reflect the changes in historical enthusiasm. Zhou Enlai has read Chen Tianhua's "Looking Back", "Jingshizhong" and Zou Rong's "Revolutionary Army". He also read the works of historical writers such as Li Sao, Historical Records and Hanshu after class, and he especially appreciated the idea of "worrying about the world first, and enjoying the world later" in Yueyang Tower. Zhou Enlai has been praised by many teachers, such as the Chinese teacher's comment on his composition: "Teaching is not enough to teach, learning is not enough to learn, and learning is not enough to talk about schools and articles." I also said with emotion: "I have been teaching for decades and have never seen such a good student. I am willing to work hard for such students. "

At school, Zhou Enlai lived a very frugal life. Every day, he takes two "fire" students to school, dressed very simply. In summer, he always wears a white gown. In winter, he only wears a thin youth gown with a washed blue coat. However, he is very concerned about others. On one occasion, Zhou Enlai turned on the tap and saw Wu Laotou, a school worker who made a fire, sick in bed. He hurried to the bed, brought water to feed the medicine, and took out his only eight coppers and said, "You can buy some medicine with it!" " Wu knew that Zhou Enlai was thrifty, and even the money for books was saved from his mouth. He said, "son, I'm glad you came to see me. Your life is not rich. How can I bear to accept your money! " Zhou Enlai said sincerely, "Grandpa, you're welcome. It is the most important thing that you quickly cure the disease and let everyone drink your boiled water! " Wu's hand tightly held, career.

During his stay in Dongguan Model School, Zhou Enlai also paid great attention to physical exercise. At first, he was uncomfortable from Huai 'an to Shenyang. In winter, the ice and snow, the north wind whistling. The other students are having a good time outside, but he prefers to stay by the fire. He believes that if there is no good health, it is not empty talk to revitalize China. So he made up his mind to take a good exercise.

He runs from home to school every morning, and then runs home from school in the afternoon without interruption. At that time, it was all dirt roads, no wind, three feet of soil and mud when it rained. In winter, the cold wind blows on your face like a knife, and you can't breathe. He also took an active part in physical education class, playing football, boxing, doing gymnastics and wiping himself with cold water. His favorite sport is kicking a bear in the head. This sport is similar to playing football, but the conditions were poor and there was no goal at that time. He is as brave as a tiger on the court. Once, their class lost a ball, and some students became dejected and despondent. Zhou Enlai said, "It doesn't matter, we don't play football to win a few goals!" That classmate didn't understand: "Why is this?" Zhou Enlai said: "When we play football, the most important thing is to stay healthy and serve China! As long as you can exercise, losing a few balls is nothing! "

During my study in Dongguan Model School, one thing had a great influence on Zhou Enlai.

A Zhou Enlai student named He Dianzhen lives in Weijialouzi, a suburb of Shenyang. This place was the battlefield of the Russo-Japanese War from 1904 to 1905. During the summer vacation, He Dianzhen invited Zhou Enlai to his home for the summer vacation. Zhou Enlai originally wanted to read more books in the summer vacation. After some consideration, Zhou Enlai went to Weijialouzi, where he spent three summers in a row. Weijialouzi is in the suburb of Shenyang, and the south bank of Shahe in the south is the battlefield of the Russo-Japanese War. On the hill behind Weijialouzi Village, there are stone tablets erected by Russians, and on the monster hunter Mountain at the eastern end of the village, there are cement towers built by Japanese. The bullet marks of the fierce fighting in that year can still be vaguely seen on the ruins.

He Dianzhen's grandfather is a civilian gentleman who has a sense of justice and cares about the country and the people. He likes Zhou Enlai, a child who loves reading. The old man also accompanied Zhou Enlai and his grandson to Yanlongshan, and told the ups and downs of his life, especially the sufferings brought by the Russo-Japanese War. The tragic scene of the Russo-Japanese War shocked Zhou Enlai. It was a night in 1904, and dogs barking and gunshots suddenly came from the quiet village. Japanese soldiers and Russian soldiers fought here. The Japanese army set up a headquarters in Yanlongshan, and the houses in the village were set on fire by Russian soldiers. Some villagers were killed and some were buried alive. Mr. He Lao's father was buried alive by Russian soldiers, and his daughter-in-law was not spared, hiding in the radish cellar and being shot. Mr. He Lao dreamed of a strong motherland and said to Zhou Enlai with passion! "I am old today. If I have any wishes, I hope you will make the country stronger in the future! " Mr He Lao also paired up with Zhou Enlai. He said the last sentence: "Not a slave of a big country." Zhou Enlai thought for a moment and said the next sentence correctly: "Swear to be the master of China." Mr. He Lao said happily: "Good! All right! Great! " Mr. He Lao saw the future of the motherland and the hope of the nation from Zhou Enlai. Zhou Enlai was also educated in patriotism, which further stimulated "the enthusiasm of studying for the rise of China" and "studying for the rise of China!" "Work hard for China to take off!" The great man Zhou Enlai set this ambitious goal at an early age.