Chen Jiageng's thought of running a school is 300 words.

Today, it is not too difficult to find China or China descendants anywhere in the world. They are born with strong adaptability. Wherever they go, they can almost integrate well into the local society and open up a sky of their own.

However, this is a group of nostalgic people. There is something about them that distinguishes them from people in other countries.

Regardless of nationality

The world is flat.

Friedman's romantic words describe the real world appropriately. Today, no matter which continent you walk on, it is easy for you to find a completely different ethnic group from yourself. Since ancient times, population movements have occurred all over the world.

Different from immigrants from other ethnic groups, even after generations of immigration, it is difficult for Chinese to abandon the inextricably linked with their homeland. In World War II, Eisenhower, a German-American, led the allied forces to fight against Germany and finally defeated Germany. At the Olympic Games, naim suleymanoglu, a "weightlifting prodigy", won three Olympic gold medals for Turkey after joining Turkey. Their behavior has not been criticized too much, because in the eyes of many people from other cultural backgrounds, it is natural to serve your country of nationality.

However, the same situation rarely happens to China immigrants overseas. Even if it happens occasionally, it will immediately arouse the condemnation of all China people, both at home and abroad.

As long as you have China blood in your veins, you will always belong to China, and you have no reason to do anything against China. Moreover, when China is in danger, you should not hesitate to give everything for it until you die. This idea has been handed down in history and has been spread overseas.

Show one's skill at a critical moment

1February, 895 12, Sun Yat-sen, who has traveled overseas for many years, and a group of like-minded youths set up the "Zhong Xing Club" in Hong Kong, and put forward the slogan of "expelling the Tatars, restoring China and establishing a Coalition government". Later, he traveled all over the United States, Britain, Canada, Japan, France, Belgium and Southeast Asian countries. Wherever he went, he made extensive contacts with local Chinese, overseas Chinese and overseas students, publicized the revolution to them and raised funds for the revolution. After a series of armed uprisings, the revolutionaries finally overthrew the feudal monarchy in China for thousands of years and established the Republic of China.

In fact, behind this revolution, there are overseas Chinese everywhere: Huang Jingnan, a Vietnamese overseas Chinese hawker who sells bean sprouts for a living, donated all his hard-earned thousands of dollars to support Sun Yat-sen's uprisings in Guangdong, Guangxi and Yunnan provinces; Li Wan, an overseas Chinese and tailor in Kuala Lumpur, sold his bicycle for travel expenses in order to return to China to participate in the Guangzhou Uprising. After the battle started, he held high the banner of justice, charged ahead and died heroically, becoming one of the 72 martyrs in Huanghuagang. According to statistics, among the famous Huanghuagang martyrs, 29 are overseas Chinese; In the Revolution of 1911, the funds for the recovery of Xiamen and Quanzhou not only came from overseas Chinese, but also the main organizers and most leaders from abroad. ...

In 2007, Chen Jiageng came to Singapore from his hometown in Fujian to help his father run a rice shop. By 1925, he has become a famous "rubber king" in Southeast Asia and a wealthy entrepreneur.

After the bonfire of the Anti-Japanese War, Chen Jiageng organized the "Nanyang Overseas Chinese Relief Association for Motherland Refugees" in Singapore, and took the lead in organizing more than 10,000 overseas Chinese in various parts of Nanyang, and was elected as the chairman of the association. Since then, he has devoted almost all his time and energy to the cause of raising money for the motherland's anti-Japanese war. Only in 1939, he raised1800 million yuan for the war of resistance!

We should not only remember Chen Jiageng, an outstanding overseas Chinese leader, but also remember countless ordinary people who contributed to the Anti-Japanese War: Indonesian overseas Chinese Masidan, who has a disabled leg and walks by hand all the year round. He gave the begging money to the local overseas Chinese charity and sent it to the motherland; Ms. Ye Qiulian, an overseas Chinese in Myanmar, auctioned all her jewelry and possessions and got 40,000 yuan, all of which were donated to the motherland. As a result, she later became a nun. Someone asked about it, and she said to the people in "Beating the Floor": "As long as the motherland wins, it's no harm to starve to death"; On his deathbed, Junqing Huang, an overseas Chinese in Thailand, told his family to make a simple funeral and donated 1000 yuan to the motherland. ...

Under the domination of this force, overseas Chinese frequently appear on the stage of China's economic take-off.

1, in September, 20065438+9, at the 6th World Chinese Business Conference held in China for the first time, Zhu Rongji, then Prime Minister, said with emotion: "Up to now, most of the projects and funds invested by foreign-funded enterprises in China have come from Chinese businessmen ... China's brilliant economic achievements and overseas Chinese have contributed greatly ... Your entrepreneurial spirit has been recorded in the glorious history of China's economic development!"

"In recent years, investment and foreign trade are the two carriages that drive the domestic economy, and overseas Chinese-funded enterprises have played a huge role in promoting domestic foreign trade exports, which should be said to be the main force to promote domestic exports." Shi Jing, editor-in-chief of the English edition of China Foreign Trade, told reporters in an interview with China Economic Weekly, "At the same time, many Chinese-funded enterprises are small and medium-sized enterprises, mainly labor-intensive manufacturing and processing industries, thus providing a lot of employment and job opportunities. Undoubtedly, overseas Chinese-funded enterprises have played a great role in alleviating domestic employment pressure and solving employment problems. "

After comparing the situation between China and Russia, former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger also thinks that China's success is largely due to the active participation of overseas Chinese, while Russia lacks such a group of "overseas Russian businessmen". Thurlow, the former economic adviser to the President of the United States, even pointed out sharply: "The greatest contribution of overseas Chinese businessmen to Chinese mainland's reform is not only investment, but also teaching their compatriots to use the rules of market economy."

No reason

This kind of psychology is hard to describe with the general word "patriotism". According to the standards of international law, many of them have long been citizens of other countries in the political and legal sense. However, in their hearts, there is a more important motherland, a motherland that nurtured them culturally and gave them glory in history.

These phenomena are also difficult for those who believe in "interests first" Even volunteering, donating wealth and taking investment risks may be rigidly interpreted as seeking greater and further interests. So what kind of benefits outweigh life itself?

Such behavior is even more inconsistent with modern constitutional thought. The country they love may not have a constitution worthy of their vows, or a vote that is really for them. They may not even have a foothold in this country. ...

However, all this does not prevent everyone from paying attention to this country and suffering from it.

Because for thousands of years, the Confucian education of "family-country integration" has unified the concepts of "country" and "home" in the depths of China people's consciousness. Just as loving parents needs no reason, so loving the motherland needs no reason. China's culture and China's history tell everyone in China that patriotism is a proposition that needs no proof.

Just as God is sacred to Christians, China is the object of worship and the source of strength for countless China people. There is such a force circulating in history. When this country is in danger, countless helping hands will always extend from five continents and four seas in time.