introduction
"Fight for 100,000 skulls and blood, and you must save the strength of Qiankun." Such a magnificent poem comes from the pen of Qiu Jin, a strange woman in China's modern history, and is the most straightforward poem she wrote, expressing the feelings of worry about the country and the people, "The Japanese in the Yellow Sea Boat Ask for Sentences and See the Map of the Russo-Japanese War." In the course of her short life spanning 32 years, she devoted herself to the feminist struggle and revolutionary movement and was an outstanding representative of modern women.
Throughout history, there have been many strange women in our country who do not allow their eyebrows to be shaved. In the political aspect, there were Lü Yan, Wu Zetian and others; in the military aspect, there were Princess Pingyang, Liang Hongyu, Tang Sai'er, and so on. In the turbulent modern history, countless heroines have emerged, feng Wanzhen, who led the villagers to resist the invasion of the British and French coalition forces in 1860; Liu Hulan, who was heroic and righteous at the age of 15; Zhao Yiman, who endured all kinds of torture and did not surrender to the Japanese Kou; and so on. Of course, there are many unsung heroines who are unknown to us, but they also paid their blood and lives for the Chinese nation's war of resistance and rise.
▲Zhao Yiman statue recent photo
When it comes to modern heroines, one person who has to be mentioned is Qiu Jin, the "Xinhai Female Master". In 1875, Qiu Jin was born in Yunxiao, Fujian Province, into a family of official eunuchs, and his father was an official in Zhizhou, Chenzhou, Hunan. The family atmosphere is more civilized, Qiu Jin has been in private school with her brother since she was a child, good at literature and history, able to write poetry, and at the age of 15, she learned to ride a horse and shoot archery, and once called herself "Jian Hu Girl", which can be called an all-rounder of literature and martial arts. Some people commented on her as "If this body is a man, he must be a thief of the country!" Although Qiu Jin is not a man, she did martyr herself and gave everything for the revolution and the country.
▲Qiu Jin's former residence
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In 1896, the 21-year-old Qiu Jin married Wang Tingjun, and the two had a son and a daughter. In the twenty-ninth year of Guangxu (1903 AD), Qiu Jin and her daughter and her husband were reinstated in Beijing. At this time, just two years after the Eight-Power Alliance invaded China, the Qing Dynasty was crumbling. In 1904, Qiu Jin ignored her husband's obstruction and went to Japan alone to study. During her study abroad, she often participated in international student conferences and met a number of benevolent people, including Lu Xun, Song Jiaoren, Huang Xing and so on.
▲Qiu Jin stills
At the same time, she often appeared on stage to give speeches on revolutionary national salvation and feminist principles. She and her classmates initiated the women's organization , the Common Love Society, and carried out women's movements many times, with the purpose of restoring the Central Plains of the Han People, she participated in the founding of the "Vernacular Newspaper", in the process of editing the monthly magazine "Vernacular", she was suggested by Sun Yat-sen, and since then she has become more and more good at using newspapers and periodicals to publicize revolutionary ideas and feminist theory, and has published articles such as "Tribute to 20,000 Female Compatriots in China", fiercely attacking the feudal system, criticizing the Manchu Qing government, and vigorously propagating feminism. After returning to China, she also founded the famous "China Women's Daily".
▲Recent photo of Qiu Jin Monument
In 1905, Qiu Jin returned from studying in China and soon joined the Guangfu Society. At this time, the revolutionary situation in the country also developed rapidly. A few months later, she traveled east to Japan again and entered Aoyama To practice at a girls' school. During this study abroad, she took a big step in the revolution - officially joined the League. Between 1905 and 1096, she wrote many revolutionary poems and said, "I would like to sacrifice my life." Unexpectedly, the female fighter soon became generous and righteous.
▲ Stills before Qiu Jin was arrested
In 1906, after Qiu Jin returned to China, in order to prevent his relatives from being implicated, he solemnly declared that he would sever ties with his family. A year later, due to the failure of Xu Xilin's Anqing Uprising, Qiu Jin, who was supposed to be the recipient, was also confessed. She resolutely said: "The revolution must be shed in blood to succeed" and refused to flee elsewhere. This phrase is similar to what Tan Si wrote in 1989 when he was righteous, "I smile from the horizontal knife to the sky, and go to leave the liver and gallbladder for two kunluns." On July 13, 1907, Qiu Jin was arrested by the Qing army, and two days later he calmly became righteous, at the age of 32.
▲A recent photo of Qiu Jin's former residence
After the death, because the crime of "treason" involved too much, no one even dared to collect the body of the female fighter. After her husband's death in 1909, his 12-year-old son Wang Yuande went to Shaoxing to welcome his mother's coffin back to Xiangtan and be buried with his father. After the death of both parents, Wang Yuande and his sister Wang Canzhi were quietly adopted by Qiu Jin's friends and sent to the fence. In the year of the Xinhai Revolution, 14-year-old Wang Yuande inherited his mother's zhi and joined the League, and after unremitting struggle, he finally became a giant.
▲ Qiu Jin's son Wang Yuande old photo
Wang Yuande excels in business. After graduating from Shanghai Zhengfeng University in 1918, he served as a teacher. Later, he began to get involved in the business world, and changsha, Xiangtan, Wuhan and other places have his industries. Xiangtan's local silk village, pawnshop and Xiangtan Electric Light Company all have his shares. Under the careful management, Wang Yuande once became the richest man in Hunan. As a descendant of martyrs, Wang Yuande repeatedly funded revolutionary activities and repeatedly came forward on bail to release arrested Communists.
▲Hunan Provincial Museum of Culture and History
He also made an indelible contribution to education. He built the "Jian hu Middle School" to commemorate his mother after Qiu Jinzhi, and in 1941, he donated Zhuzhou DachongTian to establish Xinqun Middle School. As the richest man in the local area, he repeatedly sacrificed money and "released rice" for his poor neighbors every year. During the land reform in 1951, he took the initiative to hand over private property to the people's government, which greatly promoted the pace of local land reform. Later, he served as a secretary at the Hunan Museum of Literature and History, sorting out the information of his mother Qiu Jin.
epilogue
Both Qiu Jin and her mother have made great contributions to the Chinese revolution and education. Their struggles and struggles are the epitome of the people with lofty ideals in the times. Qiu Jin is the forerunner of the times and a banner of the modern women's revolution. They are not forced to the bottom of the people who have no way to retreat, but they understand the truth of "under the nest, there is a complete egg" in the "New Language of the World". This spirit of daring to be the first in the world and breathing with the country and sharing a common destiny should be learned by everyone in every era.