restore our lost territories(huán wǒ hé shān)

restore our lost territories

In 1921 (the tenth year of the Republic of China), Tong Shiheng, the editor of the general map of China's situation, published the title page of Zhou Chengzhong's collection and Yuefei's cursive script "return to my River and mountain" as an inspiration to Chinese people. After the outbreak of "September 18th Incident" in 1931, "return to me" aroused the patriotic resonance of the whole Chinese people at that time, spread all over China, and became the representative work of patriotism from then on.

The origin of the work

Yuefei's cursive script "return my River and mountain" is engraved on WoLonggang stone in Nanyang, Henan Province. Many people think it's written by Yuefei, but it's not. Zhu Ruixi, an expert in the history of the Song Dynasty, said that the word "return to me" was not written by Yue Fei. It was compiled by Zhou Chengzhong, a scholar in the late Qing Dynasty. According to Zhou Chengzhong's recollection, "after the restoration of 1911, Tong junjitong (Tong Shiheng) corrected and reprinted the map of China's situation applicable to his middle school, and asked Yu to write the four words" return my River and mountain "on the page. I'm not satisfied with the book, but in the rubbings of diaogu battlefield written by Yue Wumu, an old stone carving in Tibet, I use the word "return" in Qin and Han Dynasties; I don't use the word "I" in the rubbings, that is, the lower part of the word "Qi Bing is different from Ren Yi (traditional style)"; and I use the word "He Shan" (Note: it's actually "he Bing (mistakenly used to be a soldier) crossing the night)" The word "River" and the word "mountain" of "mountains and rivers" are shown in the picture on the right. But Tong Jun thought that as a collection of hook Wu Mu book, why not use Wu Mu money. So he took the word "Yue Fei" as his signature after the abridged version of chushibiao as his payment. In the stone rubbings of the Yuemiao temple in Hangzhou, the four character chapter of "Yuefei's private seal" is also included. It was immediately arranged in two lines: in the first line, the word "return my River" was smaller, and the beginning of the writing was not very clear. Fortunately, it was between the two words "return" and "River", so it was not called "I". On the second line, under the word "Shan" are the money and the name seal. Ink for black and white characters, in order to Shaw rubbings. The photo of Tong Jun was printed on the second page of the map and published. Later, the business library printed this page into the Oriental Magazine, and the three provinces of the East reprinted it into the published magazine. It was mistaken for a stone rubbings. "

Influence of works

Tong Shiheng published this work on the reprint of "China's situation at a glance", and Jin Zhaozi, editor in chief of Oriental Magazine, immediately published it on the magazine when he saw it. In 1931, the "September 18th Incident" broke out and the Northeast was occupied. The Chinese nation roared to save the nation and resist Japan: "return our country and never forget our national humiliation." The spirit of Yue Fei's "return my River and mountain" quickly spread throughout China. The front page of the national salvation daily on January 4, 1936 even took "return my River and mountain" as the motto of the Chinese people at that time. After the September 18th Incident, Feng Yuxiang, a famous patriotic general, wrote a couplet of feeling the time: "if you want to take back our lost land, don't forget to return it." After that, he wrote many times: when he was running a school in Taishan in 1933, he asked the students to use local materials, grind and sell the stone seals engraved with this couplet, and use the income as the school running fund. During the meeting in Nanjing in November 1935, he wrote this couplet to Zhang Xueliang to encourage him to return to his hometown. On March 6, 1942, he wrote this couplet and presented it to Mr. Zeng Shuping who was willing to donate 100000 yuan to the Eighth Route Army. General Feng wrote this couplet and engraved it on the stone wall of Tianshi cave when he visited Qingcheng Mountain in Guanxian County, Sichuan Province. When the Yuewang temples in Hangzhou, Zhejiang and Tangyin, Henan were rebuilt after the "Cultural Revolution", they also chose to hang the "return to me" gold plaque in the main hall to commemorate. The word "return my River and mountain" is not the tone of Song people's writing. Judging from the process of producing the banner, it is not written by Yue Fei himself, so it can't be called authentic. In addition, it is indeed the embodiment of Yue Fei's true thought, and played a positive historical role in inspiring the people's Anti Japanese fighting spirit in the historical moment of national calamity. Therefore, it must not be treated the same as the general fake books.

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