introduction
We know that the "Penghu Reform Law" is a return to the light of the Qing Dynasty, unfortunately, this return to the light ended suddenly with the death of the six gentlemen. At that time, Kang Youwei, who was known as a saint, escaped by chance and ran abroad. For this "Kang Sage" to come to friends is not too strange, the so-called "bus book" and he also have a great relationship. However, as he and Liang Qichao fled abroad, everything seemed to be back to square one.
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Kang Youwei fled abroad for more than ten years, although it seems to look very miserable, in fact, he still lives abroad quite moistly. He fled to Japan that year, and was later bombed out because of Cixi, but since then, he has been flying in the sky. At that time, he began to establish a royalist association in Canada, using the "belt edict" on his body and a photo of Guangxu and him and Liang Qichao as bait, establishing this group organization of similar companies, joining as little as one dollar, and promising how much to donate could get different returns, even civilians can also be used as a picture.
At that time, overseas Chinese abroad listened to his propaganda, and many people generously donated money. Historical records record that Kang Youwei received a donation of more than 600,000 yuan. In addition to running some businesses, this money was also the main expense of his flight abroad. In the past sixteen years, he has traveled in Eurasia, traversed thirty-one countries and hundreds of thousands of miles, and is really a foreign version of Xu Xiake. Italy, France, Britain, Denmark, Norway and many other countries have left his footprints. To make an inappropriate joke, I really can't believe that this Kang sage is on the run or traveling.
In addition to traveling to various countries while fleeing, he also married many foreign concubines, which is a bit of a slap in the face for Kang Youwei, who has always advocated monogamy, and I don't know what the saint thinks. However, although he has traveled to many countries, he has received a traditional Confucian education since childhood, and he is still not accustomed to different cultural customs abroad. In 1899, when he was in the United States, he sighed, saying that he was a descendant of the family, and the family had been cultivating for hundreds of years to read heirlooms, and the brothers in the clan were all farming and reading, as if they were living in the peach blossom garden. Now that I am running away from abroad, watching the changes in the world pattern, I am also deeply shocked... In this situation, while he was shocked by new things, he was also entangled in his own homesickness, and this contradictory mood was probably only more deeply experienced by people of that era.
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While struggling with the journey, and also looking for a way to comfort his body and mind, he finally found a very good local park abroad. At that time, the parks in the Western world were still a small thing in Kang Youwei's eyes, because China at that time had a very noble garden art, and he felt that he was interested in the sanitation facilities in the park, and some safety measures, and these more modern things were the places where he was really satisfied. However, the park is not his own home, and for him it is only a place to rest temporarily. So, in order to get rid of his homesickness, he came up with a bold idea - to buy a piece of land to build a garden for himself.
After choosing for a long time, he finally took a fancy to a small island in Sweden, and Kang Youwei had a lot of ideas about the thousands of small islands in the Swedish country, so he found a place called Dune Baden in a town southeast of the capital Stockholm, and spent millions of dollars to buy the island to establish the North Sea Grass Church. The place was designed according to the garden architecture of his hometown, and staying in this garden made him feel like he had returned to his hometown. There were no longer yellow-haired, green-eyed foreigners walking around, and he could quietly reminisce about the comfortable times he had had and, of course, those old friends.
Because he liked this place so much, Kang lived here for three years, during which time he not only soothed his body and mind, but also considered the political gains and losses of the original. Although he is a bit ambitious and talented, he still has his own unique views on the integration of China and the West. In the end, the change of law failed, and there was no chance of success, but staying in a place he was familiar with always made him feel a little comforted.
After more than ten years of escape, he finally settled down in one place. During this relatively stable period, Kang Youwei wrote down his own travel experiences - "Travels in Eleven European Countries".
epilogue
In any case, Kang Youwei was also a famous reformer in the late Qing Dynasty, and he formed a royalist faction by means of methods, which can be regarded as an innovation in a sense. It's just that this revolutionary always seems to be not doing anything crisply, which is also an important reason why he was looked down upon by Zhang Xun after returning to China later. Although he fled abroad, he had been prosperous for more than ten years, but after returning to China, he did not have any achievements worth mentioning in politics, and the Beihai Caotang he carefully built had been reclaimed by Sweden in the present world, leaving only the ruin-like status quo and telling the scars of a period of history.
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