The history we know is limited to a few words in the book, and a thousand words cantily summarize the sorrows and joys of a group of people, if it is not a person who has studied history, I am afraid that I only remember Tan Sitong's famous sentences throughout the ages, but I do not know that when the six gentlemen of Wushu were beheaded, they did not get the tears of the people. It's their scolding.
The Six Gentlemen of WuShu
When introducing the reform and reform of the law in the history of the Pengshu Six Gentlemen High School, which is more important than the restoration and reform of the law, it will be said that this is the Hundred Days Restoration, a bourgeois patriotic movement to save the country and save the country, an important political reform and ideological enlightenment movement, and has played an important role in promoting China's modernization. The meaning of this passage is probably that for the modern history of China, the restoration and reform method is not very important. Therefore, compared with the Restoration Reform Method itself, the result of its failure is more important than that of the Six Gentlemen of Penghu.
It was probably Kang Youwei who pushed the change of law into the abyss, radically advocating the abolition of the imperial examination system and advocating the combination of China, Britain, Japan, and the United States. In "Let the Bullets Fly", the master said: "The steps are big, and it is easy to pull." Kang Youwei's proposition is no longer a matter of big steps, but to split the fork, and the result is not so simple.
The change of law tried to shake the century-old system of the Qing Dynasty, but this was not something that a dozen people or even the emperor could do. As a result, the restoration and reform of the law touched the fundamental interests of the feudal forces represented by Cixi, and it became the Hundred Days Restoration, which lasted for 103 days and failed. Kang Youwei fled overseas, and with the fame of changing the law, traveled around the world and lived a moist life. And the six gentlemen of Penghu are generous and righteous.
Tan
The Six Gentlemen of Wu shu, Tan Sitong, Kang Guangren, Lin Xu, Yang Shenxiu, Yang Rui, and Liu Guangdi. Among them, Tan Sitong is well known for his famous sentence "I smile from the horizontal knife to the sky, to keep the liver and gallbladder for two kunluns". Kang Guangren was Kang Youwei's younger brother, but in fact he did not participate in the change of law, but Kang Youwei did not have time to inform him when he escaped, and Cixi wanted to replace his brother with a brother, so he was unfortunately killed. I heard that Kang Guangren was in prison", "smiling freely, and singing out of the golden stone." ”
Lin Xu was arrested and imprisoned for his advice to Cixi to preserve Guangxu, compared to Tan Sitong's ancient famous sentences, the story of him and his wife Shen Queying should be more famous, and it is written in the "Record of Swords and Fishy", Lin Xu is not worried about life and death, but is worried about "The wife is still on the river table, mo get one side, heroic and fierce, will die from me, do not expect sour tears." After Lin Xu's death, Shen Que also wrote a prayer: "Yi He Ren? Who am I? It is all made up of six rites, which will cause troubles in this dynasty; life will not be seen, death will not be seen, but I hope that the three lives will be lucky, and then they will be married in the next life. In the end, at the age of 24, the fragrance disappeared.
"Medicine" Mr. Lu Xun wrote the story of human blood steamed buns, into the wood three points, not only wrote about feudal rule made the people numb and ignorant, but also praised the heroic and indomitable spirit of the revolutionary Xia Yu. It's the same if you put this story into the Pentagram Transformation Law. At the mouth of the vegetable market, the six gentlemen of Wushu failed to meet the tears and reluctance of the people, but their spit and curses were incessant, and the onlookers shouted to kill! Kill! Some people even shouted out the words, "We hate the six thieves, and we hate not being able to eat their flesh and drink their blood, in order to show their loyalty to the king and patriotism." I don't know which emotions are more than the six gentlemen standing on the stage, the fear of death, the anger of the flesh eaters and the sorrow of the people, nor do I know whether the blood of these six people has been taken by another "old bolt" to cure the disease.
Numb people
When we evaluate the reasons for the failure of the Penghu Reform Law, we always have to mention that the bourgeoisie cannot save China, and one of the main reasons is that they are divorced from the masses and do not care about the people. The same is true of the change of law, which did not win over the people, and even the people did not know what exactly this change was going to change, they only thought that this was a power struggle, and who won and who lost had nothing to do with me. These people are a group of people who have lost the ability to think. At that time, nothing could be changed by the sacrifice of the six gentlemen of Wushu, and even the people did not know that these generous and righteous people were essentially for them.
The feudal system is too strict in controlling the mind, the people have no space and ability to think, only know the kings and subjects fathers and sons, this idea is indeed conducive to the management of the state in the short term, people without appeals naturally do not have struggle, but in the long run, this is the chronic poison, no appeal, no creation. Lu Xun said: "The prescient people have always been forced to be driven and killed by sinister villains and faint masses. Chinese is particularly fierce. Compared with the feudal people, the bourgeois revolutionaries in the Law of Change are also prescients, and the emergence of new things will always lead to the demise of old things, and will inevitably lead to the hysterical counterattack of old things.
These sinister villains, the faint masses are the embodiment of the old things, and in order to protect their own interests, the irrational attackers and foresighters want to strangle them in their infancy, which is why there have always been tragedies in history in which the right people have a miserable life. For example, Ignaz Semmelweis, the first doctor to advocate preoperative handwashing, was tragically killed by the doctors at that time who joined forces to enter a mental hospital. Although we always hope that good people will be rewarded, this sentence is only a blessing for people, not the truth.
Kang Guangren
Tan Sitong, who has never ceased to emancipate the mind, said: "All countries that change the law are made up of bloodshed, and today China has never heard of anyone who bleeds because of the change of law, and the reason why this country is not prosperous." Yes, please start with the same heir! Lu Xun did not agree much, he admired Tan Sitong's character, but did not appreciate his revolutionary way, he said, Tan Sitong was born at the wrong time, in that era, the hero was useless, his life was ruined in vain. In fact, I hope that these prophets can cherish life.
It is difficult to say who is right, Tan Sitong's death inspired future generations, but it had no effect at that time, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it was in vain. Tan Sitong and Lu Xun's different perceptions of the form of revolution probably also illustrate the never-ending emancipation of the mind. Chinese the pursuit and change of ideas never stopped, Lao Tzu created Taoism, Confucius created Confucianism, from the era when a hundred schools were put together, Xunzi was born from Confucianism, but became part of the source of Legalist thought, and after thousands of years, Confucianism outside China was the core.
Liu Guangdi
In the constant change, it has built its own ideological system, until modern times, with the guns of the great powers opening the door of the country, China's ideological emancipation has taken another step forward. Today, we are still constantly emancipating our minds, freeing us from the shackles of Western culture and looking back at China's traditional culture. Our roots are there, not in the west across the Pacific.
Especially with the tension between China and the West, the ideological battle has become more anxious, the past 40 years, is the economic take-off of forty years, but also the forty years of ideological corrosion, the cultural fruit handed over by the West, it looks like a layer of fruit honey, but only to cover up the smell of its poison. We did not realize it, and ate it with joy, until later, watching the "Arab Spring" and other events, we understood that the more vivid the more dangerous. We still need to emancipate our minds, we need to be liberated from being trapped in feudal thought, and we don't need to be trapped in Western thought?
Yang Shenxiu
Compared with ten years ago, today's Internet environment is actually much better, watching the six gentlemen shouting about killing! Kill! There are fewer and fewer people, and people are gradually able to think rationally, rather than being led by the nose, nor thinking in the way others want you to think. This is the result of the emancipation of the mind, thanks both to education, which provides knowledge and the ability to think, but also from the development of the country, and the backward and poor environment may not provide the soil for thinking, especially when you know clearly that there is a better world outside.
Those who cursed the six gentlemen at the execution table of the vegetable market did not know what they were cursing, perhaps they were just venting unknown anger, and they had tried their best to survive, and where did they have the strength to think, but the truth is often hidden in the shadow of reality, and people who cannot think cannot look at the truth through the layers of barriers.
These bystanders, who are also a group of poor people, have been kept in the dark by others, have become knives in the hands of others, have become the object of irony in future generations, have become sobering teaching materials, and have become the lessons of history. After the death of the six gentlemen of Wushu, there is still a lifetime of clear names, and these people, who are unknown when they are alive, bear a body of infamy after death. Probably, this is the consequence of not thinking.