Zhou Enlai talks about sports.

We teenagers should have healthy bodies, so that we can learn more and work better. How can we have a healthy body?

(1) The most important thing is exercise. Not only exercise, but also live hard, work hard and exercise in hard work. People's physique is that the more they exercise, the better, not the worse they exercise. Productive labor is a good exercise, because whether it is agricultural labor in the field or industrial labor in the factory, it is always manual labor and an adjustment to mental labor. Therefore, most students always come back healthy, not weak. If you don't exercise, even if you learn a lot in class, you will have headaches, dizziness and myopia at a young age, which is not conducive to the healthy growth of teenagers and is not conducive to future work. We should have the belief that we should exercise in life, work and production. Being treated well in a warm family can't exercise. Children who grow up in warm families, like flowers and plants in greenhouses, can't stand the wind and rain. Therefore, we young people first have an ambition, that is, to be hard-working, not afraid of hard life, not afraid of work fatigue, not afraid of poor environment.

(2) We should combine physical exercise with revolutionary will. With a strong revolutionary will, full of revolutionary enthusiasm and serving socialism wholeheartedly, we will be refreshed and healthier. We should not only exercise, but also exercise our will, and combine the two. Some people are weaker because of their weak body, their work spirit and revolutionary will decline, and as a result, they are weaker. In this way, the body affects the spirit, and the spirit in turn affects the body, alternately cycling and declining, and it is possible to become an outdated person in the revolutionary ranks. We young people should be full of vigor, strong fighting spirit, tenacious fighting spirit and hard-working spirit. In this way, we can exercise more healthily.

(3) Schools and society should openly educate young people about their health. In sports health education, many schools always give more general health education and less physical education. Health education should be carried out, and it can also be linked to diet and daily life, but it cannot be divorced from reality. More importantly, young people don't know much about physiology, and they don't know something, which makes them mysterious and destroys their bodies. For example, in school, the education of sexual knowledge is not enough. We should let young people know some natural laws of physiological development. This is the responsibility of our educators.

(1Zhou Enlai's report at the meeting of recent college graduates in Beijing on July 22, 963)