What does the song of the seven sons mean?

Seven places: Hongkong, Macau, Taiwan Province Province, Kowloon, Ahava, Guangzhou Bay and Luda (Lushun Dalian).

Creative background:

Song of Seven Sons is a group of poems written by Wen Yiduo, a famous scholar in China, during his study in the United States in 1925. The full text consists of seven poems, which symbolize seven China territories occupied by foreign powers, namely Macau, Hong Kong Island, Taiwan Province Province, Ahava, Guangzhou Bay (Zhanjiang, Guangdong), Kowloon Island and Dalian. The song of the seven sons, which we often listen to, is only the first of the seven sons. Song of Seven Sons was written in March 1925, when Wen Yiduo was in new york. In its preface, alsace-lorraine is translated into Lorraine region, which is located in the east of France. At the foot of Faust Mountain, it was ceded to Germany in the Franco-Prussian War and returned after the Treaty of Versailles. In the poem, Wen Yiduo compares the seven "lost lands" plundered by foreign powers in China to seven children who are far away from their mothers, crying about their strong feelings of being bullied by foreign countries and longing to return to their mothers' arms. On the one hand, poetry expresses nostalgia and praise for the motherland, on the other hand, it expresses hatred for imperialist powers. /kloc-in the summer of 0/925, Wen Yiduo returned from studying in the United States. Walking off the ship, the poet could hardly restrain his excitement, threw his suit and tie into the river and rushed to the embrace of his motherland.

However, what awaits him is boundless darkness and great shame ... Look at his home country, the mountains and rivers are broken, the wind and rain are like rock, the jackals are in power, the powers are rampant, and the motherland is divided up ... The poet wrote the poem Discovery in grief and indignation, and immediately published the famous patriotic poem Song of Seven Sons in Modern Review. "Seven sons" refers to seven pieces of land occupied by foreign powers at that time, and Macao is only one of the "seven sons". The seven sons who were robbed of their motherland were Hongkong, Macau, Taiwan Province, Kowloon, Ahava, Guangzhou Bay (Zhanjiang, Guangdong) and Luda (Lushun and Dalian). History will never forget 1842 that humiliating August, when an honest official grovelled aboard the British warship Cornwallis anchored on the Nanjing River and signed the first unequal treaty in China's modern history-China-Britain treaty of nanking. According to the treaty, China ceded Hong Kong Island to Britain, which opened the prelude for foreign powers to carve up China. 1860, China and Britain signed the Beijing Treaty, and Britain occupied the southern tip of Kowloon Peninsula. 1898, the Qing government was forced to sign the "Special Provisions on Expanding the Border of Hong Kong", which classified the rest of the Kowloon Peninsula, a "sister of Hong Kong", as "New Territories" and leased it to Britain for 99 years. 1887, China and Portugal signed the Treaty of Friendship and Trade, and the Portuguese who were allowed to stay in Macao in the name of "drying goods" in the middle of the Ming Dynasty seized the "Lotus Land" from then on. 1895, China and Japan signed the treaty of shimonoseki, and the Treasure Island and Ryukyu Islands in Taiwan Province Province and a string of pearls in the East China Sea were ceded to Japan together with her twin brother Lushun and Dalian on the Bohai Bay (leased by the Russian Empire). 1898, China and Britain signed the Special Terms for Ahava, and Ahava, the "master of preventing the sea", rented Britain for 25 years. 1899, China and France signed the Special Terms for Lease of Guangzhou Bay, and the iron lock at the back door of China (now Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province) was leased to France. By 1900, the imperialist powers had forcibly opened hundreds of commercial ports on the land of China, and delineated more than 20 concessions in more than 10 cities. The "seven sons of China" fell apart under the arrogance of imperialist powers such as Britain, France, Japan and Russia. There is a poem that represents the mentality of patriots at that time: "When I was sleeping in China, I didn't know that patriotism meant loving my family. People should wake up today and don't wait for the soil to crack like a melon." Seven sons shed tears, and the poet sang a sad song alone. Wen Yiduo witnessed the "ruin of the country over the years" and felt that China's homeland was "deprived of support in the motherland and abused by others". "Because I chose seven places that have the closest relationship with China, I wrote a chapter in each song to express my loneliness and sadness for my motherland and to inspire people to prosper." The strong feelings of loving the motherland and longing for reunification between the lines immediately aroused strong repercussions among readers. A young man surnamed Wu wrote in a letter to the editorial department: "After reading Song of Seven Sons, I didn't know that my eyes were full of tears after hearing one sad sentence after another. When I read Models and Chen Qingbiao, I was not so moved. " The "seven sons of China" captured by the great powers is a symbol of national tragedy and national disaster. It shows that: "the weak of the country is humiliated" and "being behind will be beaten"; It warned the people of China: "The Chinese nation has reached the most dangerous time!" /kloc-for more than 0/00 years, generations of Chinese sons and daughters have come forward for the sake of national prosperity and national independence, throwing their heads, spilling their blood and going forward bravely, and writing magnificent historical poems. The indomitable will of the people of China to pursue reunification has merged into an unstoppable torrent. 1930 10, China recovered Ahava; 1945, the people of China defeated the Japanese invaders. 10 year 10 On October 25th, Ando Rikichi, the last Japanese governor in Taiwan Province Province, submitted a surrender letter to the China government in Zhongshan Hall, Taipei, and Taiwan Province Province returned to Chinese territory. At the same time, Guangzhou Bay, Lushun and Dalian have also returned to the embrace of the motherland. Great changes have taken place in the motherland, and the people of China have stood up since then! Wen Yiduo's son said, "May my father know under the grave and have fun with us." Faith can move mountains. In fact, the return of "China Seven Sons" is in jeopardy! -Wen Yiduo's "Song of the Seven Sons, Preface to Poetry"

Social value:

The historic turning point of the fate of "Chinese Seven Sons" happened in the golden autumn of Beijing 1949. In this land burned, killed and plundered by Eight-Nation Alliance, Mao Zedong solemnly declared to the world that the people of China have stood up since then! After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), it announced the abolition of all unequal treaties, completely ending the tragic scene in the modern history of China. 197 1 year, China resumed its legal seat in the United Nations. From 65438 to 0978, China announced the implementation of reform and opening up, and its national strength was booming. China, a powerful socialist country, leapt to the horizon of the East, forcefully and forcefully, realizing the call for the reunification of the motherland. "The tail of colonialism can't be put off until the next century." On behalf of the Chinese nation, the people of China * * * shouted out the strongest voice to wash away the shame of snow! 1982 in September, when Deng Xiaoping met with Margaret Thatcher, he made it clear that China would take back Hongkong on 1997. Deng Xiaoping pointed out: "Realizing national reunification is the aspiration of the whole nation. A hundred years of disunity, a thousand years of reunification. How to solve this problem, I think only the implementation of' one country, two systems'. " From midnight on June 30th, 1997 to early morning on July 30th, 1997, the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center in Victoria Bay, Hong Kong was held grandly, attracting worldwide attention. At 23: 59 on June 30, the British flag with a blue background and the British port flag painted with a herringbone crown lion landed slowly, and a century and a half of British colonial rule came to an end. 1 At 0: 00 on July 0, 2000, the bright five-star red flag and the blooming regional flag of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region were slowly raised in the sound of National Anthem of the People's Republic of China, and China resumed the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong. After the handover ceremony, Prince Charles and Patten, the last governor who just left office, boarded the Royal Cruise "Great Britain" and left Hong Kong in the boundless darkness. The ship's anchorage is 154 years ago where the first governor Pu Dingcha landed in Hong Kong. Two years later, the Chinese nation greeted the arrival of the new century with another moment of revenge and humiliation. 1999 12 19 in the evening, the garden of Macao Cultural Center was brightly lit. At 23: 58, the green Portuguese flag and the Macao City Hall flag slipped like sails. At 0: 00 on the 20th, the five-star red flag with lotus pattern and the green flag of Macao Special Administrative Region were raised on time. At this moment, the Chinese and Portuguese governments completed the handover of Macao's political power. "Julian Waghann set the Central Plains in the north, and the family sacrifice did not forget to tell Nai Weng." On the night of Macao's return to China, more than 20 people from four generations of Mr. Wen Yiduo gathered at his home in Mentougou, Beijing, to hold a family sacrifice to celebrate Macao's return to the motherland. At home, couplets are hung high: "Red candles are burned everywhere on the centenary birthday to raise wine to comfort the spirits, and the stagnant water in 1999 will hold high the new century", and "Going home in Macao" is widely criticized. Wen Diao Li, the son of Wen Yiduo, said: "My father's long-cherished wish of reunion of flesh and blood has finally come true. May my father know under the grave and have fun with us. " Dream of the new century: the complete reunification of the motherland and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. "The return of the seven sons of China is in danger!"