Chapter 344 - "Ode to Young China" stuns the Four Seas! (1/2)

The auditorium turned into chaos!

The way Zhang Ye delivered his punches, in such an unpredictable way, alarmed everyone!

An old professor from the Mathematics department shouted, ”Little Zhang! Get down!

Yan Jiantao also said, ”What nonsense. He just wants to mess things up!

Another old lecturer in his sixties also said, ”Young people these days behave like there are no rules! How can you say something like that in a closing speech!?”

Wu Zeqing cut them off and said gently, ”Listen to what Teacher Little Zhang has to say first. That was just the beginning. The closing speech's significance comes in the concluding sentences. It's still okay.”

Then, Zhang Ye spoke again. ”I see many people are giving me looks of puzzlement and shock. Maybe everyone feels what Professor Yan previously talked about is common knowledge, and is already fact, so why would I say I oppose it? Because in my heart, there is the existence of a Young China!”

Young China?

What Young China?

Everyone failed to understand him!

Zhang Ye was too ruthless. He used the famous Liang Qichao's ”Ode to Young China” as his closing remark, or to put it precisely, a speech. This masterpiece had many years of history and was very old, but it was never behind the times. Using it now and today, ”Ode to Young China” was still glorious in this present world!

The only problem was that this speech had its ”dangers”.

But so what? Zhang Ye smiled. He felt duty-bound to proceed without hesitation!

”Is a country old or young?

Let us talk about young and old.

The old often reminisce about the past, while the young often antic.i.p.ate the future.

Thinking of the past leads to sentimentalism; thinking of the future leads to hope.

Sentimentalism leads to conservativeness; Hope leads to progress.

Conservativeness leads to eternal oldness; progress leads to daily freshness.

Thinking of the past are people of derelict, only knowing the rules; Thinking of the future are people of inexperience, only they dare to break the rules.”

After he finished speaking, everyone was stunned!

The words he said were not difficult to understand, but the words were not common vernacular either!

Su Na was a bit surprised. Many people found it amazing, not because of the meaning behind the words, but because they found it unbelievable that Zhang Ye could come up with something like that without a script!

No script?

You really f**king came out with an impromptu speech!?

How could that be? You can come up with such things on the spot?

After they tried appreciating it, many people were infuriated!

For example, an ”old person” like Yan Jiantao. The old professors surrounding him were already fuming with anger!

Who's f**king conservative? Who's f**king always reminiscing about the past? Who f**king doesn't forge ahead without thinking? Zhang Ye, you are too much a grandson! You scold people even while giving a closing speech!?

Zhang Ye spoke with fervor and a.s.surance.

”The old tend to worry, the young tend to enjoy pleasure.

The more worry, the more discouragement; the more pleasure, the more confidence.

The more discouragement, the more cowardice; the more confidence, the more heroism.

The more cowardice, the more carelessness; the more heroism, the more adventure.

The more carelessness, the more annihilation; the more adventure, the more creation.

The old people easily tire of things, while the young often find pleasure in things.

Tiredness results in people who think nothing is possible; Pleasure results in people who think everything is possible.

If the old are like the setting sun, the young a rising sun.

The old are like a lean ox, the young a tiger cub.

The old are like a monk, the young a heroic knight.

The old are like a dictionary, the young a play script.

The old are like opium, the young, brandy.

The old are like a falling meteorite, the young a coral island in the ocean.

The old are like a willow, the young the gra.s.s in spring.

The old man is a dead sea that retains, the young the source of the Yangtze River.

From this, we know that the aged and the young both have their own merits and uses.”

With that, Zhang Ye summarized.

”If they cast away their prejudices and work together for the country, their services to the people shall be immense!”

Old people are cowards?

Old people hate the world?

Old people did not dare take risks?

Old people are like old oxen? They are like people taking in opium? They are like cras.h.i.+ng celestial bodies?

There were many old professors and lecturers from Peking University present. The moment they heard this, they were all glaring with anger. No one liked hearing that!

Yan Jiantao was erupting with anger. The other elderly people were still fine, as they knew Zhang Ye's words were not directed at them, but these words were definitely scolding him, Yan Jiantao!

Su Na exclaimed in a daze, ”Teacher Zhang is mad! Why is he scolding people?”

Professor Zeng excitedly slapped his thigh, ”He isn't mad! He is also not scolding people!”

”But, but...there are words of contempt!” Su Na could not understand.

Professor Zeng chuckled and said, ”If 'old people' like us can't even endure the words of contempt for the children, then we would truly be the type of people mentioned by Little Zhang! Nicely said, Little Zhang! This kid always broadens everyone's horizons every time he speaks!”

All the youths felt their blood boiling with excitement!

Zhang Ye ignored all the angry stares of those old professors.

”The cause of a geronto China of the present were the results of the Chinese old.