There is such a passage in Liang Qichao's "Juvenile China Says": "The wisdom of the youth is the wisdom of the country, and the wealth of the youth is the wealth of the country......It means that "if the youth is smart, my country will be smart, and if the youth is rich, my country will be rich."
Children are the future of the motherland and the hope of the Chinese nation. "The wisdom of the youth is the wisdom of the country" is easy to accept: if the young people are ignorant, the future and fate of the country will naturally be worrisome.
However, "when the youth is rich, the country is rich" is not so easy to understand. "Rich" here is generally understood as "wealthy", that is, having a lot of property. Just imagine, at a young age, even before the body and mind are mature, you have so much wealth. How could he have created so much wealth himself? Or did he inherit it from somewhere else? Obviously, it is unlikely that so much wealth can be created at a young age, and the "rich second generation" is more credible.
So, if we recognize that "the rich of the youth is the wealth of the country", how should we guide young students to "work to create wealth, hard work to create performance, struggle to create happiness"? Advocating labor, loving labor, and creating a better life with hard work are the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation since ancient times, and the attitude and pursuit of life that we Chinese generally respect. The working class and the broad masses of laborers are the main creators of social wealth, and the more obvious and substantive progress in promoting common prosperity for all the people should first be embodied in the hundreds of millions of laborers. If the younger generation has become the "rich second generation", who will be the "working class and the working masses"? Who creates wealth?
Liang Qichao's "Juvenile China Says" has a far-reaching influence, and many people like to quote it when they write articles and give speeches. Recently, I saw this "famous saying" painted on the outer wall of a school in Hunan. For the country to be rich, the youth must be rich; And teenagers can't create wealth on their own, so should parents hurry up to create it? I really don't know how the teachers at the school explained this "famous saying" to the students. What kind of values do we want to promote?