"People say that the sunset is the end of the world, and the end of the world will not see home." Speaking of Kang Youwei, many people must know his story with the Six Gentlemen of the Qing Dynasty. However, after the blood of the six gentlemen of Wushu splashed the vegetable market, Kang Youwei also disappeared. Since Kang Youwei did not die at Caishikou, where did he go? And what are you doing?
Kang Youwei liang Qichao and his apprentices learned early on that Empress Dowager Cixi was going to arrest the people who had changed the law and behead them for public display, so they put away their bags and began to flee. But the difference is that Liang Qichao learned the news on the day of the coup and persuaded Tan Sitong to leave together, and as a result, Tan Sitong died at Caishikou, and Liang Qichao hurriedly boarded a Japanese warship.
Kang Youwei was saved by the Guangxu Emperor and fled three days before the incident. When the law was changed, the Guangxu Emperor was worried that the change would change, and after difficult thinking, he finally decided to send Kang Youwei to Shanghai to do business. Kang Youwei did not know his intentions at first, but it was not until he later received the Guangxu Emperor's edict that he understood that the change had failed, so he embarked on a cruise ship that crossed the ocean. Kang Youwei, who originally thought that he was just traveling and running errands, brought some entanglements and was received by local officials in Shanghai, so when he fled to Europe, he carried a lot of money.
Kang Youwei, who had crossed the ocean, was still bent on the Guangxu Emperor, so he later formed the "Royalist Society" in Canada, but he was after all a fugitive, and the Guangxu Emperor lost power shortly after the Penghu Reform, and finally died tragically in Yingtai, so the "Royalist Society" in Canada did not have any construction achievements. In addition to staying in Canada, Kang Youwei spent most of his time "traveling" in European countries, and his escape trip was not panicked, so he also wrote many articles to discuss the political doctrines of Western countries during his escape. From people to things, from politics to economy, from art to literature, the West is very different from the Qing Dynasty in the East.
Kang Youwei wandered outside and could not return to his homeland, especially in the European countries that were completely different from his hometown, and his heart was naturally very bitter. So he tried to find something in the Western world that had an oriental flavor, and this thing was the park. Western parks are somewhat similar to Eastern gardens in Liang Qichao's view, they will plant trees, build ponds, have special people to fiddle with flowers and branches, cultivate plants, and can be used for people to play and gather for leisure. For this reason, Kang Youwei will always look for local parks to play in every place he goes.
But compared with parks and gardens, there are still too many different places. Moreover, no matter how the western park is built, it always lacks the magnificence and artistic conception of the oriental garden. Kang Youwei has been wandering outside for 16 years, and for these 16 years he has been "alone in a foreign land as a stranger", and he does not have to "think of his relatives" "every festive season". After 16 years of exile, he finally decided not to run around, and after several thoughts, he finally decided to stay away from the war at that time, like a paradise in Sweden to buy a small isolated island to build the "North Sea Grass Hall".
"People say that the sunset is the end of the world, and the end of the world will not see home." Named Beihai Caotang, in order to commemorate the hometown far away in the sky, then Beijing, that is, Beiping, has a long history of preservation of the Beihai Garden, Beihai Garden is now Beihai Park, Beihai Park has a thousand years of history, full of traditional Chinese culture in the garden culture of the strong foundation.
Kang Youwei bought a small island in Stockholm, Sweden, for 200 million US dollars, which has a lot of islands and a lot of waters like the North Sea, and the Chinese-style Beihai Caotang built on the island finally made Kang Youwei feel like he was in his hometown. He chose to stop and stay here for three years. In three years, he devoted himself to writing, and wrote the experience and cultural experience of traveling to Western countries into "Travels in Eleven European Countries".
Kang Youwei did a great thing in his life, that is, the Pentagram Transformation Method, although the Pentagram Transformation Law failed, but the significance of the Change Law itself is very precious. After that, Kang Youwei spent most of his life on the road of exile, and the Guangxu Emperor who sheltered him also died early, Kang Youwei had a home and could not return, and finally could only choose to stop in Sweden thousands of miles away, I have to say that this is a kind of sadness.
But if you don't leave your hometown, the six gentlemen of Wushu may become the seven gentlemen of Wushu. At that time, the Qing Dynasty was already at the end of the dusk, and the Penghu Reform Law and Foreign Affairs Movement failed to save the Qing Dynasty, which was about to decline, and the torrent of history was rushing endlessly, and it was manpower that could rewrite it.
Poor Kang Youwei ran all his life, and finally the Beihai Caotang also died with the wind, turning into a wisp of late Qing smoke in the sky. Now beihai caotang is no longer there, and Kangyouwei Island has long been renamed "Restaurangholmen", which means "hotel island". Sovereignty has also been reclaimed by Sweden, and the island's name has nothing to do with the poetic Beihai Caotang, and only the local Chinese are willing to call it Kangyouwei Island.
Reference: "Nostalgia", Northern Song Dynasty, Li Qian
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