Taiwanese writer Li Ao examined and wrote a book entitled "Beijing Fayuan Temple", which introduced Tan Sitong, one of the six gentlemen of Wu Shu, who had visited The Fayuan Temple in Beijing before he was righteous. This book takes Tan Sitong's experience at Fayuan Temple as the introduction, leading to the vicissitudes and confusion of the entire modern History of China, and Kang Youwei is also quite related to the abbot of Fayuan Temple.
The building of Fayuan Temple is grand in scale, rigorous in structure, using a central axis symmetrical pattern, from south to north, there are mountain gates, bell and drum towers, Heavenly King Hall, Daxiong Treasure Hall, Mercy Zhongtai, Jingye Hall, Wuliang Hall, Great Compassion Temple, Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, Daquan Jue Hall, East and West Corridor, etc., a total of seven into six courtyards, the layout is solemn, wide and huge, is the oldest ancient temple complex in Beijing.
In the early morning of September 21, 1898, Empress Dowager Cixi suddenly rushed back to the Forbidden City from the Summer Palace, went straight into the Guangxu Emperor's residence, imprisoned the Guangxu Emperor in Yingtai, Zhongnanhai, and then issued an edict on the training of the government, and once again came to the court to "train the government", and immediately ordered the arrest and killing of Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao, who were on the run; arrest Tan Sitong, Yang Shenxiu, Lin Xu, Yang Rui, Liu Guangdi, Kang Guangren, Xu Zhijing, Zhang Yinhuan and others.
Kang Youwei was the initiator of the change, and he provoked this change that shocked the imperial court, so Cixi and others gritted their teeth at his ultimatum, eager to drink his blood and eat his bones! However, just three days before the imperial court began to suppress it, Kang Youwei disappeared, leaving the six gentlemen Tan Sitong, Yang Rui, Liu Guangdi, Lin Xu, Yang Shenxiu, and Kang Guangren with the black cauldron on their backs and beheading them at the mouth of the Beijing vegetable market.
In fact, Tan Sitong could also go, and the Great Dao King Wu even gathered a group of brothers to force him to leave, and he expressed his determination to die generously with a bloody and loyal speech: "All countries that change the law are made from bloodshed, and today China has not heard of anyone who bleeds because of the change of law, and the reason why this country is not prosperous." If so, please start with the same heir. Word by word, there was a loud sound, and no one around the friends dared to obstruct it anymore.
Kang Youwei did not think of fleeing immediately, but came to the Fayuan Temple overnight to ask for the abbot and asked the abbot to help him shave. When the abbot heard that he was coming, he refused to receive him, and asked his disciple to say to Kang Youwei: "I am a Buddha, and all those who wish to convert, regardless of the people and the thieves of the country, have no pity and allow them to repent." Wei Kang youwei was a disciple of Confucius, and he tried to claim to be the successor of King Su, and our temple did not dare to make a mistake, causing the most holy disciples to be apostatistic. ”
As we all know, the abbot's kang Youwei has always flaunted the inheritance of the "su king", that is, there is no land, no people, as long as human history and culture exist, the power of his throne will always exist. It is equivalent to Buddhism calling Shakyamuni the "empty king", the four great voids, no need for people, no need for power, no need for money, no need for desire, no need for status, and his prestige, authority and the universe coexist.
When Kang Youwei heard this, he was ashamed and embarrassed, and quickly ran to the British embassy and fled to Japan with their help. And this abbot despised his inconsistent words and deeds, so after Kang Youwei fled, these things he did were even more disgraceful.
Six people were killed, and Kang Youwei, who advocated radical changes in the law and wanted to blackmail the Guangxu Emperor into killing Empress Dowager Cixi, fled immediately, although Kang You advocated change for himself, but his own thinking was still that kind of feudal thought. In the regulations of the Restoration and Reform, he advocated monogamy, but Kang Youwei already had a wife and a concubine at that time, and then in the process of fleeing, he successively added three new concubines and had 6 children. In addition, there were fifty or sixty men, maids, cooks, and stewards in their house. He even set up a set of "raising soldiers" posture of Meng Tianjun in the ancient Warring States period, and many of his students, or admirers of him, would come to their homes to live in, and the guests who came and went from their homes were also endless.
Someone summed up Kang Youwei's flight overseas this time, "The hundred days of the Restoration, sixteen years of exile, three weeks of the earth, traveled all over four continents, through thirty-one countries, traveled 600,000 miles." "He was in his 40s when the change failed, and the situation at that time was uncertain, wandering, running around, and experiencing hardships. However, his personal life was rich and colorful, and there were many sexual encounters, and several young and beautiful women followed him and became his women, giving birth to children for him and taking care of his daily affairs.
When Kang Youwei was an official, he was called Kang Shengren, he strongly advocated monogamy, and when he was 19 years old, he found a "female junior, holding a gold brick" hair wife Zhang Yunzhu, a typical virtuous wife and mother, filial piety to the mother-in-law, working all day, very capable. But Mrs. Zhang gave birth to five daughters in one go and did not have sons. This Kang family's business cannot be without a male successor. Therefore, when Kang Youwei was 40 years old, he married an 18-year-old concubine Liang Suijue and soon gave birth to a son.
After the failure of the change of law, Kang Youwei was in exile, fortunately, he was accompanied by Liang Suijue, and he had to talk about comforting loneliness and loneliness. In 1907, Kang Youwei arrived in San Francisco, usa, and overseas Chinese heard that Master Kang came to warmly welcome him. During a gathering to give a speech, he Xuli, the daughter of an overseas Chinese plantation owner, listened with relish, this little girl was only 17 years old, but she had a distinct personality, worshipped heroes, and was attracted by Kang Youwei's profound knowledge and eloquence.
Kang Youwei was deeply attracted by the young and beautiful, cheerful and lively little girl in front of him, who could also read and draw, and was proficient in English. Lady He also took the initiative to meet with Kang alone, and she was very happy to Kang Zi, who had never rejected the female color. When they met that night, the two had the intention of meeting each other and hating the night, He boldly courted, although the old and young family firmly opposed, but this little girl was determined to marry Kang, and the family was helpless in the end.
In this way, Liang Suijue had to retreat to the "second line" and take care of housework. She and He Xuli are called sisters and get along harmoniously. After the marriage of Kang He and Kang He roamed the world, He Xuli carried out lady diplomacy, giving full play to her advantage of being familiar with English, French, German, and Chinese four Chinese dialects, becoming Kang's secretary and translator, so that Kang Youwei was like a tiger, and the young He girl soon gave birth to a son.
In June 1911, Kang Youwei had another affair with a 16-year-old Japanese girl, Ichioka Tsuruko, who later adopted her as the fourth lady.
After the Xinhai Revolution, the domestic arrest of Kang Youwei was abolished. In 1913, Kang Youwei returned to China with his family and merged the two separate families. After Kang Youwei returned to China, although no one wanted him again, his life was rich and stable, and Kang Youwei, who was nearly a year old, married the young Liao Dingzheng as the fifth lady in the winter of 1915. The following year, she bore Kang a daughter with the same name. 1 91 At the age of 62, Kang Youwei still married a 19-year-old Hangzhou West Lake woman named Zhang Guang as a concubine.
After the failure of the change of law, if the abbot of Fayuan Temple did not refuse Kang Youwei and let him take refuge in the Buddhist holy land, he could completely preserve Kang Youwei's reputation, so posterity said that if he wanted to leave the family, there would be no bad reputation that he would later be obscene, corrupt and fornicated in his private life, and despised by future generations. His practice made many reformers at that time extremely disappointed in the two, for example, from then on, Zhang Taiyan and this master and apprentice swore not to stand apart, and once ridiculed Kang Youwei, saying that he was the general of the country and would die, and it was for him to be old and not to die.
Here, after all, greed is a human instinct, and Kang Youwei can still justify the useful body left behind, but what he did in his later years degenerated into a royalist, and in Zhang Xun's comical restoration movement, he participated in it, actively played the role of a beam-jumping clown, and single-mindedly wanted to restore the imperial system, and the little achievements of his first half of life were all ruined by these later practices.
Kang had this brief highlight moment at the time of the Penghu Reform, and most of the rest of his life was in the midst of corruption and extravagance, which made his evaluation in history mixed, and he was even called a hypocrite by posterity, and his life's deeds were really lamentable.