＂Canon＂ shines for a hundred years ｜ I am confident that if I live for two hundred years, I will be a water hammer for three thousand miles.
[Interpretation]
"Self-confident life for 200 years, will be a water hammer for three thousand miles" comes from Mao Zedong’s "Seven Ancient Sentences". The first sentence "Confident life for 200 years" shows the lofty aspirations of Mao Zedong, who is in his youth. The second sentence "When the water strikes three thousand miles" is adapted from "Peng’s migration to Nanming and the water strikes three thousand miles" in "Zhuangzi Xiaoyao Tour", which follows the trend of the previous sentence and is dripping with joy, as if seeing the heroic spirit of the poet chopping waves in the water. The two poems are written from two aspects: time and space, and sublimated in the extreme challenge, which fully embodies Mao Zedong’s broad and magnificent revolutionary romantic poetic style.
Mao Zedong loved swimming when he was young, and he liked to go swimming in big waves. This poem was sung by him when he was swimming in Xiangjiang River while studying in Hunan No.1 Normal University. On December 21st, 1958, Mao Zedong commented on the eyebrow of Nineteen Poems by Chairman Mao published by Cultural Relics Publishing House: "Hit the water: swim. At that time, beginners, midsummer water, a few dead. A group of people finally persisted until the middle of winter, still in the river. At that time, there was a poem that I forgot, except for two sentences: ‘ I am confident that my life will be 200 years, and I will be a water hammer for three thousand miles. ’”
【解读】
习近平总书记在“七一”重要讲话中强调：“坚持不忘初心、继续前进，就要坚持中国特色社会主义道路自信、理论自信、制度自信、文化自信，坚持党的基本路线不动摇，不断把中国特色社会主义伟大事业推向前进。”
在前进征程上，我们必须坚定不移走中国特色社会主义道路。中国近代以来的历史充分证明：方向决定道路，道路决定命运。中国特色社会主义道路是1840年以来特别是甲午战争以来，中国人民对其他救国途径的尝试全部碰壁之后作出的历史性选择。这条道路，是中国共产党带领中国人民历经千辛万苦、付出巨大代价开辟出来的，是被实践证明了的符合中国国情、适合时代发展要求的正确道路。
中国特色社会主义，既是我们必须不断推进的伟大事业，又是我们开辟未来的根本保证。坚持中国特色社会主义道路，关乎国家前途、民族命运、人民福祉。我们一定要增强对中国特色社会主义的道路自信、理论自信、制度自信、文化自信，既不走封闭僵化的老路，也不走改旗易帜的邪路，保持政治定力，坚忍不拔、矢志不渝沿着中国特色社会主义道路奋勇前进。
（作者 杨立新）
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