To study for the rise of China is to study with the goal of rejuvenating China.

This sentence was Zhou Enlai's great wish when he was young.

As a teenager, Zhou Enlai heard and witnessed that China people were bullied by foreigners in foreign concessions, but there was nowhere to argue. Everyone around him dared to speak out, from which he deeply realized the meaning of "China's depression" and decided to "study for the rise of China".

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After hearing the news that the Revolution of 1911 broke out and overthrew the rule of the Qing Dynasty, he took the lead in cutting off the braid symbolizing the subjects of the Qing Dynasty at school. So when President Wei asked his classmates why they were studying, he could naturally say the inspirational saying "Studying for the rise of China".

Family changes in childhood made Zhou Enlai precocious than his peers.

Grandpa and brother-in-law died one after another. Later, Wan, our biological mother, died of tuberculosis at the age of 35 because of the pressure of family life. The foster mother Chen died of illness soon. Family changes made Zhou Enlai feel the pain of losing relatives, the hardships of life and the warmth of human feelings earlier than his peers. At the age of 65,438+00, Zhou Enlai was "in charge of household affairs and in good order".

The hardships of his childhood prompted him to change the status quo.

When my parents arrived, my family began to decline, and my father didn't go home all the year round, making ends meet. Zhou Enlai knew the hardships of life from an early age, especially treating his biological mother and adoptive mother. He often pawns valuable things at home for money to buy medicine.

The hardships of childhood made Zhou Enlai understand the hardships of his parents earlier, and the hardships of having no money to maintain a normal life also made him understand earlier that the daily necessities at home were hard-won, and the simple idea of living a good life took root in young Zhou Enlai's heart.

The early education of four women made him understand books and manners.

In Zhou Enlai's childhood, four women had an important influence on his growth. Birth mother Wan, foster mother Chen, wet nurse Jiang, and Eight Aunt Taiyang have many influences on her, which are of great help in the aspects of basic living ability, life experience, the formation of outlook on life, personality and social outlook.

Visiting Guan Gong Temple and the ruins of the Russo-Japanese War made him realize the painful lesson that he would be beaten if he fell behind.

The adoptive mother told him the story of Guan Tianpei's sacrifice in the anti-British war, which made young Zhou Enlai revere this national hero. When I was a student in Northeast China, I visited the ruins of the Russo-Japanese War, and listened to the local old people telling about the course of the Russo-Japanese War and the sufferings of the Japanese people, letting him know that backwardness will be beaten, invaded and destroyed. In his young mind, he was born with great ambition to revitalize China and save the nation.

I went to school in the northeast and received western education. I am open-minded.

When I was a child, I was not only educated by my foster mother Chen in Huai 'an, but also studied culture in a private school. I went to study in the northeast and began to get in touch with western learning. Studying in Northeast China broadened Zhou Enlai's horizons, made him know something about foreign countries, and initially saw the situation that the country was weak, the people were poor and bullied.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Reading for the Rise of China