When I was a child, the story of loyalty to the country and the tattoo of my mother-in-law was the seed of patriotism for every child. But in recent years, there have been more and more discussions about whether Yue Fei is a national hero, which has also angered many people, saying that this is because hostile forces are messing up our history.
That's not true. Whether Yue Fei is a national hero depends more on the development of the times, the improvement of people's cognition and the more objective and rigorous evaluation of historical events.
Yue Fei's main identity is a military general in the Song Dynasty, and his main historical achievement is his resistance to gold, which is universally acknowledged. The question is whether the anti-gold hero can be equated with the national hero. If the Song Dynasty is regarded as orthodox and a single nation, and we are only the successors of today's Song Dynasty, then Yue Fei is the undisputed national hero.
But this is not the case. Our present land area is a superpower of 9.6 million square kilometers, while the land area in the Southern Song Dynasty was only over 2 million, even in the Northern Song Dynasty, it was less than 3 million. Song's hometown is not the only place in our country, but only a part. So did the rulers. Today, as in the Song Dynasty, its homeland is a part of our country.
It should be common sense that the two opposing countries in the history of Song and Jin are two opposing regimes on the map of China today.
Is Song orthodox? Can Song represent our Chinese nation today? These are very controversial, so in this case, the name Yue Fei will inevitably be more rigorous.
The Chinese nation was formed in modern times, and it is a big family of 56 nationalities including the Han nationality. Song and Jin were once a part of us. If Yue Fei, who worked for the Song Dynasty, is a national hero, then Jin Wushu, who worked for the State of Jin, should also be called a national hero.
From our point of view, Jin covers an area of 3 million square kilometers, and its main ruling areas include Beijing, Tianjin, Shandong, Hebei, central and northern Henan, central Shaanxi, northern Jiangsu and northern Anhui.
Their birthplace lies between the white mountains and black waters in the northeast, including most of the three northeastern provinces, eastern Inner Mongolia, northern Korea and the coastal areas of the Russian Far East.
If Yue Fei can win the title of national hero we gave him by playing Jin Guo, it means that we are speaking on behalf of this group of people in the 2 million hometown of Song Dynasty.
Is it biased?
Yue Fei is a national hero, so this means that Xu Jin is not a local, but a foreigner and an outsider. So what do people who live in the 3 million land of Jin State think? As an inseparable part of today's China, can these people in Jin Guo's hometown also become national heroes according to Jin Wushu? After all, Jin Wushu represents the state of Jin to fight the state of Song, and it is a standard way to expand the territory. This kind of argument will separate us in the online world.
Therefore, Yue Fei is a hero against gold, and there is nothing wrong with it. He is a national hero in the Song Dynasty, and there is nothing wrong with it.
However, if we look at it from the present perspective, under the premise that the Song and Jin Dynasties are integrated and 56 ethnic groups are one family, Yue Fei is not a national hero of the big family of the Chinese nation.
This is not to deny Yue Fei, but to respect history.
Yue Fei is not a national hero in the modern sense, which does not mean that Yue Fei is not a hero. Yue Fei's spirit of serving the country faithfully should never be forgotten. It is still an integral part of our Chinese national spirit and one of the cores of our national spirit.