Excerpt from "A Guide to Southern China: A Story of Sacrificing One's Life for Justice"

The teacher silently wrote on the blackboard, "We suffered together, and we lost all the stars. The mountains and rivers are broken and the wind is floating, and life experiences are ups and downs. The beach of fear says fear, and there is a sigh in the ocean. Since ancient times, no one has died in life, leaving a glowing heart. " When the teacher writes down the first two sentences, the students will read the rest of the poems aloud. This is a poem by Wen Tianxiang, which we learned in the next semester of Grade Eight. Ask a student to stand up and talk about what this poem is about and what kind of person Wen Tianxiang is.

This poem describes Wen Tianxiang's experience from the imperial examination in his youth to the anti-Yuan struggle in his middle age and the ruin of his country, which shows his life ambition of giving up his life for justice and preferring death to surrender.

Wen Tianxiang was an outstanding national hero and patriotic poet in the late Southern Song Dynasty.

Today, let's study Wen Tianxiang's article "Introduction to the South". Please turn to page 36.