Spring is the season that opens up a new year with many aspirations when nature is bustling with new buds and shoots, when people are excited with excitement about the achievements of the past year.
These are the premises set out and continue the journey to promote potential strength with great anticipation, pride and excitement. The year 2025 opens a new era, the era of the nation's rise with strong, decisive, and drastic movements to overcome challenges, overcome oneself, and confidently walk on the journey to reach. The year 2025 marks historical milestones: The 135th anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh's birthday, the 95th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, now the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification...
Remembering 60 years ago, in the year of At Ty 1965, when the war against the US to save the country was entering a fierce phase with fierce challenges, the US imperialists escalated their attacks on the North - the great rear of the heroic and resilient South. In his New Year's greetings, beloved Uncle Ho said: "The North builds a new and joyful life - the South's resistance is progressing more and more". And he affirmed a firm belief: "Socialism will definitely win - Peace and unification will surely succeed". Uncle Ho has passed away but his New Year's greetings still retain their great spiritual value with profound strategic predictions for future generations.
The new era of our nation is a historical period marked by important characteristics that greatly influence the development of society - culture - politics - nature. It is the era of the Vietnamese people's rise under the leadership of the Communist Party, successfully building a socialist Vietnam, a rich people, a strong country, democracy, equality, civilization on par with the world's great powers. General Secretary To Lam has repeatedly emphasized the phrase "the era of the nation's rise", which is the top priority in implementing strategic goals by 2030, Vietnam strives to become a developing country with modern industry, high average income and by 2045 become a developed country, high income.
2025 is the year we celebrate the 95th anniversary of the Party's founding. The history of the Vietnamese revolution shows that under the Party's wise and talented leadership, "the Party has given us a spring", arousing the will of self-reliance, self-control, self-confidence, self-reliance, and national pride. Mobilizing the strength of the entire people combined with the strength of the times, the Vietnamese revolutionary path has achieved great miracles.
Spring comes, the red peach blossoms bloom in the North and the yellow apricot blossoms bloom in the South. The two colors symbolizing spring in the two regions blend together in the warm atmosphere of the traditional Tet holiday. And it is these two colors of red and yellow that create the national color - the red flag with a yellow star fluttering in the vastness of the sky and earth, in the joy of people welcoming the new era - the era of the nation's rise.
President Ho Chi Minh once affirmed: "Our Party is a revolutionary Party, apart from the interests of workers and farmers, our Party has no other interests". There are countless examples of communists who have fallen on the journey of revolutionary struggle. A message from comrade Tran Phu, the first General Secretary of the Party: "Keep your fighting spirit" to his comrades in prison before his sacrifice. A strong declaration from the young communist Ly Tu Trong before the enemy court: "The path of youth is only the revolutionary path, there can be no other path". A fighting stance of the Hero of the People's Armed Forces, martyr Nguyen Viet Xuan: "Aim straight at the enemy, shoot"... All have become beautiful symbols, steadfast wills with communist ideals, steadfast beliefs. Our Party is like an embodiment, a noble humanistic value. Musician Nguyen Duc Toan has a very good song: "The Party is my life" with simple but very sincerely, passionately spreading a motto, a life experience, a life action: "My Party, forever follow You" because "The Party has given me a reason to live, faith".
The aspiration for spring - the era of the nation's rise - is the awakening of spring, youth and new strength. That aspiration is increasingly nurtured, increasingly developed, increasingly honored and aroused from the source of the nation's historical and cultural traditions. In these early days of spring, I think a lot about the path that the Vietnamese people have gone through. That is the path that the Russian poet Eptusenco once mentioned when writing about Vietnam during the years when our entire nation steadfastly fought the Americans. He compared the number 1 path and the only correct path, which is: Standing up, holding guns and defeating the Americans with the strength of 4,000 years of history accumulated and highly promoted.
And I think again of the journey “Splitting Truong Son to save the country – With a heart full of hope for the future”; remembering the legendary Ho Chi Minh trail on the sea with the No-numbered Trains… And in the era of national growth, we are planning to build a North-South high-speed railway with a speed of 350km/h. That is a spring road, a bright road of the future; a road of international integration in which the “bamboo diplomacy” activities have created a polyphonic sound in the resonant chord called: Country. A country that once “rose from the mud and shone brightly” (Nguyen Dinh Thi); “With a sword on its back, a soft hand holding a flower pen” (Huy Can); a country that, as the late General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong once affirmed: “Our country has never had such a foundation, potential, position and international prestige as it does today”.
This spring morning, my heart is even more joyful when I see ships cutting through the waves of the ocean to distant islands, to islands named "Survival" as immortal survival, "Son Ca" island with the chirping of children studying next to the curved temple roof. With the harmony of the song by musician The Song: "The place you go to is the distant sea. The place you go to is the distant island. From our homeland. In the middle of the ocean, carrying the love of the homeland". The image of soldiers guarding the island like living milestones on the front line "the moon hangs on the gun barrel" further enhances the beauty of Uncle Ho's soldiers. On the border this spring, the apricot flowers are white, the cat-eared rocky slopes have the footprints of border guards. And the undulating mountain tops are like sails in the misty sea. This spring morning, our hearts are filled with the sound of village festival drums, many melodies of Cheo singing, Xoan singing, Ma River singing, and Dam's sad and angry songs... These soulful melodies are all born from rivers carrying heavy alluvial deposits, over the years carving the shape of the country, a country that, as a poet has compared: "The strip of land resembles a dancing fairy/ And has the shape of a flame during a hurricane"; a country with a shape - a solid position like "a dike on a peninsula"...
The country with a new mindset and posture because of the spring aspiration enters the era of national growth.
Essays by Nguyen Ngoc Phu
Source: https://baothanhhoa.vn/khat-vong-mua-xuan-ky-nguyen-vuon-minh-cua-dan-toc-237930.htm
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