一九一五年,年青的胡适意气风发,在日记中写道:“吾辈正生活于一国民觉醒之时代”。晚清以降,笼罩中国上空的情绪,既非儒家文化陶冶的平和中庸,亦非道家文化修炼的平淡冲远,而是强敌自远方来压迫下的中心如噎,以及由此逆向催生的激越昂扬。没有一个时代如此悲观,也没有一个时代如此乐观。这是一个醒悟的时代,尤其是一个自觉其醒悟的时代。醒之所悟,其一大端,无疑是胡适所言的国民觉醒。国民由觉醒而自知为国民;复由醒观梦,乃知今是而昨非。如此,有重重国民意识的发生。然而,因觉后重生而大欢喜的国民也许并没有进一步觉醒到:梦影重重,梦中复有梦;有小梦 In 1915, the young Hu Shi was very uplifting and wrote in his diary: “We are living in a time of awakening of a nation.” The late Qing dynasty, covering the emotions over China, is neither the moderate doctrine moderated by the Confucian culture nor the ordinary practice of the Taoist culture. Instead, the oppressive enemies come under the pressure of a center, High-spirited. No one era so pessimistic, nor an era so optimistic. This is a time of remembrance, especially an era of self-conscious reawakening. Awakening realized that one of the big end, no doubt, is Hu Shi said the national awakening. The people from the awakening and knowing themselves as nationals; complex from the awakened dreams, but I know now and yesterday. So, there is heavy national awareness. However, nationals who rejoice after they feel born may not have further awakened to the heavy dreams and the dreams; there are small dreams