Stories about Sun Yat-sen, who from childhood had the courage to rebel against superstition and who broke the arms off a bodhisattva in a temple, and Chiang Kai-shek, who at an early age grasped the meaning of "strive ever upwards" while watching fish swimming upstream in a river, are all branded deeply into their memories.
從小就敢於違抗迷信、打斷廟中菩薩手臂的孫中山；幼年時候看著溪水小魚迴游而領悟「力爭上游」意義的蔣中正，都因而深深烙印在腦海中。