胡锦涛总书记谈“八荣八耻”时说道:“以热爱祖国为荣、以危害祖国为耻。”爱国,成为建设社会主义精神文明的重要体现。不同的历史时期.确有不同的爱国方式:鸦片战争时期,如林则徐之禁烟英雄为爱国之大者;民国时期,如国父孙中山之革命者为爱国之大者;抗战时期,如杨靖字之保家卫国为爱国之大者……那么,在今日和平崛起中的中国,在这样一个特殊的历史环境下成长起来的我们,又该怎样爱国?今天,何为爱国之大者? General Secretary Hu Jintao said when he said “Eight Honors and Eight Disgraces,” he said: “We are proud to love the motherland and ashamed to endanger the motherland.” “Patriotism has become an important manifestation of building a socialist spiritual civilization.” Different historical periods did have different ways of patriotism: during the Opium War, Lin Zexu’s no-smoking hero was the great patriotic; during the Republican Period, such as Sun Yat-sen’s great patriot who revolutionized the War of Resistance against Japan, such as Yang Jing’s We guard the country and patriotism is the big ... ... then, in today’s peaceful rise of China, in such a special historical environment, we grew up, how should we patriotic? Today, what is the great patriotism?