This weekend, I read the article "Humen Selling Cigarettes", which mainly tells about an event that Lin Zexu destroyed opium, which made me filled with emotion. The article mainly tells us that in the 1930s, Britain transported a lot of opium to China. If people took it, they would easily become addicted to it, and they had to take it every day. Slowly, people will become sallow and emaciated, and become heavy smokers. Opium has seriously harmed people's health. The people were injured, the national defense was weakened, and the Qing government was weak and incompetent. Finally, in March 1839, Emperor Daoguang appointed Lin Zexu as an imperial envoy to Guangzhou to investigate and ban opium. Lin Zexu carried out the famous "Humen opium sales" in history in Humen, paid 19187 boxes of opium, totaling more than 2 million kilograms, and the tobacco sales lasted for 23 consecutive days. Everyone applauded.

I hate that the British smuggled a large amount of opium to China, deceived the Chinese to smoke opium, harmed people's health, and later called us the sick man of East Asia. It was Lin Zexu's opium sales in Humen that dealt a heavy blow to the trade plunder of the British bourgeoisie in China. At the same time, it increased the Chinese people's awareness of the harmfulness of opium, made many people see the essence of Britain's opium trafficking to China, and awakened people's patriotic consciousness.

Lin Zexu's heroic deeds and great patriotism will encourage us to study hard for the revitalization and protection of the Chinese nation. Before we grow up, we can be useful to our country only by learning knowledge well.