Gémìng qiánbèi wèiyǒuxīshēngduōzhuàngzhì, jīntiān de xìngfú láizhībúyì.
The revolutionaries' sacrifices bred great aspirations - today's happiness was hard won.
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history
The line comes from Mao Zedong's 1959 poem 七律·到韶山 ('Seven-Character Verse: Shaoshan Revisited'), written when Mao returned to his hometown of 韶山 and commemorated the revolutionary martyrs.
usage
It commonly pairs with the following line 敢教日月换新天 ('daring to make sun and moon yield a new sky'). Here 为 is read wèi, meaning 'because / for'.
