With righteousness in your heart, you will benefit the world.

Looking back at the flames of the war of resistance against Japan, how many Chinese sons and daughters, with the great righteousness of their family and country in mind, shed their blood and gathered into a torrent of one heart and one mind to resist aggression; Walking into the sky of history, how many revolutionary ancestors insisted on making profits for the world, and did not hesitate to shed blood and sacrifice to write a magnificent epic of perseverance and bloody battle to the end.

"Children should strive to transform an unreasonable society, seek happiness for later women, and seek liberation for the country and the nation like men, and do something meaningful." This is a letter of apology written by Han Yalan, a young Communist Party member, to his parents in 1937. The letter tells the reason why he left for Yan'an without saying goodbye;

"Son, this time for the nation, for the class, for the lovely hometown, for the sister-in-law, to survive and happiness..." This is the farewell letter written by the revolutionary martyr Cheng Xiong to his parents before he went to the anti-Japanese front in 1940;

"After I was arrested, I didn't have the slightest sadness. I only had hatred and struggle. I knew that I was sacrificed for the liberation of the nation and the liberation of all mankind." This is a farewell letter from Jin Fangchang, a 19-year-old Communist Party member, to his brother before he was brutally killed in 1940.

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From the sonorous oath of "no fear of heaven, no fear of earth, and willing to give one's head to protect China" to the clank of "severe punishment and inducement, nodding and tears are not husbands", the revolutionary ancestors are also flesh and blood, and they also have thousands of thoughts in their hearts. However, for the sake of the great righteousness of the family and the country, they have made their own firm choices. "I am not a man of wood and stone, can I have no brothers and brothers? Death is justice, life is for everyone" "Who has no parents, who has no children, who has no lover, we sacrifice everything to help the parents, wives and children of the whole Chinese people". It is precisely because they know who they are born for and who they die for, they have tempered their flesh and bones into "people made of special materials".

Although the years of beacon fire are far away, the ancestors have the national integrity of righteousness and sacrifice for righteousness, and the family and country feelings of being big and profitable in the world. They have settled down in the long river of history, shining through time and space, and turned into a precious factor. It has become the spiritual nourishment of countless outstanding Chinese sons and daughters, and a torch that will never go out in the treasure house of national spirit.

There is great loyalty in the righteousness, great love in the righteousness, and great me in the righteousness. When the great righteousness and lofty morality of the nation occupy the spiritual high ground and become a person's persistent adherence, lofty ideals, beliefs and value pursuits will be generated in the depths of the soul, consciously resist all kinds of temptations, and achieve "living in the world, standing in the right position of the world, and walking in the world." "The road of the world", to achieve "wealth cannot be licentious, poverty cannot be moved, power cannot be subjugde", and "". If it is difficult to have both righteousness and benefit, they will certainly take the initiative to give up all kinds of interests, or even sacrifice their precious lives, and sacrifice their lives for righteousness. It can be said that "there is a way in the world, and they are martyred by Tao; if there is no way in the world, they are martyred by their bodies".

Comrade Mao Zedong once pointed out: "Our team is entirely for the liberation of the people and is thoroughly working for the interests of the people." When we closely link the national justice with the interests of the people, we will find that righteousness and harmony are never contradictions that can not be broken through and difficult to reconcile, but a unity that can be deeply integrated and interact with each other. This is consistent with the righteousness and benefit choice advocated by the ancients, which is "to worry about the world first, and to be happy only after the world. Such a view of justice and benefit is pure and noble, showing the original intention and true character of the supremacy of the people, reflecting the feelings and realm of selflessness and selflessness, and showing the responsibility and pursuit of sacrifice and dedication for the country and the people. The great figure of the ancestors "husband Xu Guo, no need to send each other" has been deeply engraved on the unyielding backbone of the Chinese nation, shining through the annals of history and shining through the ages.

In contrast, when righteousness and profit are in opposition, its essence must be the conflict and contest, balance and choice between righteousness and self-interest, and human destiny will undergo historical and subversive changes. "The reason why Wang Jingwei, Zhou Fohai, Chen Gongbo and others betrayed the country and the nation and became notorious traitors spurned by everyone is to separate the internal relationship between righteousness and profit, regardless of the interests of the world, the nation and the people, but to put personal interests above the national justice, not to sacrifice for righteousness but to forget righteousness, not to value righteousness but to abandon righteousness, he was eventually nailed to the pillar of shame in history.

The great national righteousness of those who value it, and the personal self-interest of those who value it, the personality strength of the Communists comes from this, and the spiritual code of the happiness of the people, the prosperity of the country, and the rejuvenation of the nation also lies in this. The baton of history has been handed over to our generation. For the revolutionary soldiers in the new era, they must vigorously cultivate and firmly establish a correct concept of justice and interests, engrave the national security and national justice in their hearts and shoulders, draw spiritual strength from the heroic deeds left by their ancestors, adhere to the principle of "taking into account the interests of the world", always carry the cause of strengthening the country and the army in their hearts, let the torch of struggle burn in their chests, ride the wind and waves calmly and confidently, and create a better future.

Source: Liberation Army Daily