Where do I come from? Where do we come from? What is asked is as old and ancient as life. It is not only the questioning of the future about the past, but also the questioning of the roots of the tree, the questioning of the magma by the volcano, and the questioning of the finite to the infinite. We were once slaves.Otherwise, there would be no century of sinking of the Chinese nation from 1840 to 1949. We also have heroes.Otherwise, there will be no century-old revival of the Chinese nation from 1949 to 2050. Compared with the magnificent history, human life is so short.The happy people don't want to admit that they have been slaves, and they don't bother to admit that there have been heroes.Unknowingly, my bloody and shocking history has been abandoned and drained, and turned into a dry, shriveled indoor specimen, where no one cares about it.

The fate of history has transformed into the fate of individuals, and all living beings can only fear in front of the gossip of the Book of Changes. Have we not lost our treasure? Qu Qiubai said that people love their own history like birds love their wings, please do not tear my wings! If you can't deeply feel the past, how can you get the wings to take off?Diderot said, besides truth and virtue, what else can we move?Reverse his words and ask: If you are no longer moved by other things except personal prosperity, how can you get a straight spine? Does the wallet stand on its own among the nations of the world when it bulges?

All start from personal suffering and happiness, and the Chinese nation will never leave Sun Yat-sen and Mao Zedong. You are not asked to go to history to pick dazzling flowers, but to get ground fires that run like lava. Lucien Favere, the French historian of the Annals school, once said: In today's turbulent world, only history can make us face life without fear.Fevre was shot by fascist Germans in World War II, and his words still echo in the echoing gallery of global turmoil in the new century. As far as the Chinese nation is concerned, the cause that requires succession is still going on.

I firmly believe that those who work quietly and perseverely for the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation today will be able to absorb rich nutrition from our past. No matter how rich and powerful we are, we should never change this sentence in the national anthem: "Arise, you who do not want to be slaves, let us build our new Great Wall with our flesh and blood." No matter how difficult we are, we must always remember this sentence in the Internationale: "There has never been a savior, nor a fairy emperor." Matter is immortal.The universe is immortal.The only thing that can compare with the sky is the spirit.

Every nation needs its own heroes.The true hero has that profound tragedy: to sow, but not to reap. This is the backbone of the nation. I would like to dedicate this book to the people who have become the backbone of the nation in the past, today and in the future. They have endured hardships, and we have achieved glory. Jin Yinan September 24, 2008