The husband can die without shame, and wants to see his compatriots and still have martial souls. It's just a pity to bombard the good man, and don't teach to bleed to sakuramon. The fall of national power is lamented, and the elders of Japan can also mourn. It is fortunate to have become a sandworm, and there is still a remnant of ashes in the heart. ——Liang Qichao commemorates Tan Jinyong's poem
One evening in 1903, as a diplomatic attaché of the Qing Dynasty stationed in the United States, Tan Jinyong walked on a bridge in San Francisco, usa, he admired the evening breeze on the other side of the Taiping Sea, and felt extra comfortable, the comfortable days of these days have made him feel far away from the domestic official environment, so the mood is very comfortable, if there is no literary limit, he may have to write a poem, but what he did not expect is that what happened later was buried his life.
The provocation of the American police against Tan Jinyong
San Francisco is a populous city in the United States, the history of the city is also relatively famous, it is said that someone pulled out gold in the river here, which attracted countless poor people in the east of the United States to come here spontaneously to pan for gold, more and more people came here to pan for gold overnight the news spread, and later although there was no gold, but because of the sufficient labor population, San Francisco city began to be established, and became the largest city in the western United States.
Tan Jinyong did not have much development prospects in the Qing Dynasty, we all know that in the last few decades of the Qing Dynasty, the official's position of power has become a commodity that can be bought and sold, and many counties order officials of a level to directly spend a large amount of silver to dredge up the relationship to buy, and Tan Jinyong, a military attaché, originally relied on his own ability to eat, and after growing up practicing martial arts from a young age, he found that his skills had no use at all in China.
Because the world situation in the last years of the Qing Dynasty underwent tremendous changes, at least before the Opium War, China still belonged to the classical era, and China in the classical era was dominated by cold weapon warfare, and the main reason for getting ahead in the cold weapon war was the physical fitness and personal combat effectiveness of the small soldiers themselves, so many people in the folk at that time who could not get through the road of reading chose to learn martial arts, and by learning martial arts, they could take the martial arts exam to obtain meritorious names. Then after three or five years of training in the frontier, he can return to his hometown to take up a post.
But at that time tan jinyong was not like this, the Qing Dynasty was hurt by the two opium wars, knowing that the kind of big knives and spears and personal martial arts in the past were no longer useful, so in the army is the implementation of Western military education, from the treasury to equip soldiers with guns, ammunition and cannons, in order to resist the attack of the Westerners, at this time Tan Jinyong is very embarrassed, his way out has been limited to death, either to stay in the country and hold a big tree to develop, or to choose to go abroad that everyone does not like to go.
Tan Jinyong was provoked by the American police
Tan Jinyong was unwilling to develop in China, probably because he saw the current situation in China at that time, so he chose to go abroad, from his age point of view should only be in his thirties, it is a young and strong man, although everyone is reluctant to go abroad at that time, but it does not mean that the requirements are very low, on the contrary, the most protective diplomatic envoys, in addition to proficiency in martial arts, will communicate in foreign languages This is the basic condition. Therefore, it is inferred from here that he should have graduated from the modernized military water school among the children.
Playing on the Golden State Bridge around the United States, he suddenly had a mocking sound from his haircut, and he was about to speak when the American policeman took off his hat and pointed to his head and laughed that this was a Chinese pig with long braids. Tan Jinyong was still patient at this time, because he knew that he could not provoke at will in foreign countries.
So silently picked up the hat and said in English: "Mr. Hope is self-respecting, Chinese is also a person, and people are equal to each other." But his kindness was not rewarded, and the American policeman said: It is simply outrageous, Chinese is also human? After saying that, he gave Tan Jinyong a slap, and at this time, Tan Jinyong really couldn't stand it, so he used the Chinese kung fu he had learned to greet the past, and knocked the American policeman to the ground in a few clicks.
At this time, the policeman knew that he was not the opponent of this Chinese, so he hurriedly blew the siren, and then many policemen came out of the corner, they saw their companions being knocked to the ground by the Qing Dynasty's big braids, they beat Tan Jinyong together, punched and kicked him and tied him to the fence under the bridge for passers-by to watch and laugh, and in the middle of the night, they arrested and detained him in the name of "attacking the police" and detained him in the San Francisco police station.
Tan Jinyong sobered up a little at this time, took out his diploma from his clothes pocket, saying that these policemen had no right to detain themselves, but this group of American policemen did not pay attention, but instead laughed like a fool, inside and out full of happy air, and later after the local Chinese learned of this matter, the Chinese Chamber of Commerce together raised money to dredge up relations from the police station to redeem Tan Jinyong.
After coming out, Tan Jinyong was depressed, and finally accompanied by this overseas Chinese, he came to the San Francisco Bridge again, feeling that the national strength of the Qing Dynasty was low, the dignity of the Chinese people outside the country could not be basically guaranteed, and he was bullied as a diplomat of the national image, and he threw away the face of the motherland, so he jumped down in grief and anger, and ended his life, and Mr. Liang Qichao, who was traveling in the United States at the time, knew that he wrote the famous poem at the beginning.