Zhang Binglin (1869-1936) was originally named Xuecheng (学乘), the character Mei Shu, and later changed his name to Binglin; and because of Mugu Yanwu, he changed his name to Dai, Zi Taiyan, a native of Yuhang, Zhejiang. The teenager learned from Yu Yu and went to Shanghai to serve as the editor of the "Current Affairs Newspaper". After the change of Wu Shu, he avoided Japan, and successively became acquainted with Liang Qichao and Sun Yat-sen, and his thinking changed dramatically, and he went all out to advocate revolution. After his release from prison in 1906, he edited the Minbao, the organ newspaper of the Chinese League, and continued to preach the revolution. Later, he served as a senior adviser to Yuan Shikai's presidential office and the director of national history. In his later years, he lived in Suzhou to give lectures, organized the National Society, and called himself a remnant of the Republic of China. He is a famous democratic revolutionary, thinker, scholar and master of pu xue in the late Qing Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty.
