What does Sun Yat-sen mean by destroying habits?

Saw my mother binding her sister's feet. The original text is as follows:

Sun Yat-sen liked his sister very much when he was a child. At that time, Sun Yat-sen's family was very poor, and his sister was not afraid of suffering at all. She washed clothes, cooked rice, transplanted rice and collected firewood. In my spare time, my sister plays with Sun Yat-sen. Sun Yat-sen loves to listen to her singing, and she often sings to him.

One day, when Sun Yat-sen came back from outside, he saw his mother tied his sister's feet with a long cloth. My sister is in pain and her eyes are dirty.

Angry and distressed, Sun Yat-sen said to his mother, "Why did you put your sister through this? My sister's foot is entangled, can she still work in the fields? "

Mother sighed and said, "son, I know it's not good to tie my feet, but it was handed down from my ancestors!" " Girls will be laughed at if they don't prick their feet. "

"If we know that foot binding is not good, we shouldn't do it. What jokes are others afraid of! "

"You are too young to understand these things." With a smile in her eyes, her mother pushed Sun Yat-sen out of the door. ...

In the following months, Sun Yat-sen never saw her sister's smiling face or heard her singing. This incident deeply hurt his young mind.

Later, Sun Yat-sen led the Revolution of 1911 and became the interim president. The first thing he abolished was this bad habit of foot-binding that had hurt women in China for thousands of years.

Sun Yat-sen's Breaking Bad Habits is a text in Unit 8, Volume 5, Soviet Education Press. It tells the story of Sun Yat-sen, the pioneer of the Revolution of 1911 in China, who witnessed the pain of her sister being forced to bind her feet when she was a child. Therefore, after the Revolution of 1911, she was more inclined to abolish the bad habit of foot binding.

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By contrast, this paper describes the changes of Sun Yat-sen's sister before and after foot binding, and strongly accuses the harm caused by the bad habit of foot binding to women in China before the Revolution of 1911. Foot-binding is a very brutal and cruel abuse of women left over from our ancestors.

Those "strips of cloth" and "one after another" are like torturing people, which will not only bring physical torture to people, but also hurt people in their hearts, making the once happy and amiable, lively and capable sister suffer physically and mentally, and look like a different person after foot binding. "In the next few months, Sun Yat-sen never saw her smiling face or heard her voice.

Foot-binding made Sister Sun Yat-sen lose her smiling face and singing forever, and lost her innocence and happiness. The contrast and changes before and after my sister's foot binding also left an indelible mark on Sun Yat-sen as a child.

The article also describes the argument between mother and Sun Yat-sen with the dialogue of characters. In the dialogue, we can see a sad and poor mother who obeys the bad habits handed down by her ancestors helplessly and blindly.

On the one hand, she experienced the pain of foot-binding, but now as a mother, she is personally bringing the pain of foot-binding to her lovely daughter. Although she didn't want to do this, her mother had to "tie her feet with tears" for her daughter, just because "it was handed down from generation to generation" and "people would laugh if she didn't tie her feet", and the bad habit continued like this. ...

In the dialogue, we also saw a young Sun Yat-sen who distinguished right from wrong, dared to criticize bad habits, thought independently since childhood, did not blindly follow, dared to resist feudal bad habits and resolutely struggled with feudal forces.

Looking back at the full text, it is Sun Yat-sen who witnessed the pain of his sister's foot binding when he was a child and deeply "stung" Sun Yat-sen's "young mind". It was Sun Yat-sen who loved his sister so much that he hated foot binding. It is precisely because I have planted the seeds of the bad habit of hating foot binding in my heart since I was a child that Sun Yat-sen will make a big move later-abolishing foot binding. He can't let his sister's tragedy happen to thousands of women in Qian Qian, China.

This is the cause of his motivation to get rid of bad habits, and the final abolition of bad habits is the result of the cause, because it is written in detail and carefully, and the narrative is concise and clear.