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The Chinese Dream in the Heart of Tiananmen Square in the Village

2026-01-22   

"It's true, exactly the same as Tiananmen Square on TV." At the beginning of the new year, theTiananmen" in Wuying Village, Suiyang District, Shangqiu, Henan, attracted tourists from all walks of life to come and take photos. Because the old people in the village's wish to "go to Beijing to see Tiananmen", Wu Chenyan, a young villager, spent 5 days paintingiananmen on the wall of the village.
Watching the old people take photos in front of the "Tiananmen" one after another, excited children, one can feel the joy of fulfilling their wishes through the screen. What's more touching is a detail told by Wu Chenyan. He said that an old lady looked the painting of Tiananmen while holding his hand and kept saying "It's good, it's good", "I can feel her hand trembling". old lady's emotional expression is unforgettable.

When we were young, all the students were singing "I love Beijing Tiananmen". At that time we all looked forward to Beijing and dreamed of going to Beijing to see Tiananmen when we grew up. As a symbol of the great motherland, Tiananmen deeply rooted in the collective memory of the Chinese people.

Therefore, when strong yearning turns into "access" at hand, the excitement of the elderly, who tremble with hands, change new clothes and even wipe tears, is indescribable but heartfelt. As netizens' comments say, "Beijing's Tiananmen Square is not a sentiment engraved in the bones of the elderly, but should be a sentiment engraved in the bones of every Chinese." "What is delineated is not only 'iananmen', but also the patriotic feelings that have never faded in everyone's hearts."
Patriotic sentiments and national identity are never abstract, but are buried in the hearts of every person like seeds. A sentiment and an identity can only gain solid and lasting vitality if they are integrated into daily life and become an that ordinary people "use without realizing it". Like air and water for life, it is indispensable.
This patriotic sentiment is a feeling that is hidden deep and can burst out at any time. Chen Xinyan, a 19-year-old college student, traveled from Hunan to Beijing, crossing 1,00 kilometers to reach the Great Wall at Badaling. She recited "Qing Ping Ye · Liupan Mountain" on the Great Wall, choking up several times the recitation. When she recited "One must be a hero to reach the Great Wall", a passing tourist spontaneously responded with "Two hundred thousand miles of travel" At this moment, the cultural code of the Chinese people was instantly opened, and emotional resonance could be ignited between strangers.
Chen Xinyan's recitation won millions of likes overnight, touching the patriotic feelings deeply hidden in many people' hearts. Netizens commented that "the city wall was originally just scattered stones, but because of a common belief, they stuck together and became a backbone." This sentence the nail on the head. It is the common belief that gives the city wall life and turns time into meaningful history.
I can empathize with the netizens' feeling of being moved. When standing on the Great Wall and looking into the distance, seeing the mountains rising and falling to the horizon, you will feel an infinite attachment to land and a strong sense of belonging to the thousands of years of civilization history. I believe that every Chinese will have a profound experience of this feeling between individuals and history, individuals and state at a certain moment.
This sense of home and country and national identity will inadvertently flow from the bottom of my heart, and will also burst out at major junctures, gathering an extraordinary force. "At this moment, I have no money and can't help my family, because we are all serving the revolution and the nation the spirit of martyrs." It can be the generous dedication to the war of resistance; "I must run faster to win the time; I must run faster to save more from the virus." It can be the fearless reverse in the fight against the epidemic; "As long as there is still a Pinglong person who has not been lifted of poverty, I, the county party secretary, cannot rest." It can be the silent dedication in the fight against poverty... A spirit that is everlasting, like constancy of the moon, the rising of the sun, the longevity of the southern mountains, and the lushness of the pine and cypress.
The is here, and the music continues. Whenever I hear children reciting ancient poems from textbooks, my heart will be full of reverie. For thousands of years, generation after generation Chinese have recited the same poems since childhood, and the feelings of home and country have been passed down from generation to generation. The "Tiananmen" in the village represents a common emotion that has continued to this day: there is love in the eyes, because there is really a river and mountains in the heart

Edit:Luoyu Responsible editor:Jiajia

Source:people.cn

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