Author: Du Weidong (Writer, former editor-in-chief of Selected Novels Magazine)
Mission
Woo——! The whistle sounded and the passenger ship slowly docked at kobe pier.
Stepping out of the cabin, the cherry blossoms are gone and the maple leaves are red. The moment you move ashore, you step into history.
This was November 1877. You are 29 years old, old and ambitious, with both the enthusiasm of a young man and the weight of an adult. Slightly tighten your lips, showing your fortitude; His eyes were as clear as jade, and in his calmness, he revealed a few strands of worry.
Huang Zunxian (1848-1905), also known as Gongdu, was the master of renjinglu. In the late Qing Dynasty, he was an outstanding patriotic poet, diplomat, thinker and statesman, a pioneer in the reform of the law in modern times, who sent envoys to Japan, the United States, Singapore and other countries and regions, and was known as "the first person in modern China to go to the world" and "the first of the three masters of poetry in modern times". (The picture shows huang Zunxian's image data picture)
I understand your worries. With your talent and learning, Wen Da only needs time in the temple, but you are unique, politely rejecting the family's wish to let you continue to seek meritorious fame, and becoming the first counselor of the Qing Dynasty in Japan. You are dissatisfied with the domestic political situation of Wanmazi and want to be Prometheus, even if you anger the great god Zeus because of the fire stealing, and you are locked in a mountain and let the eagle peck at flesh and blood.
Lucky or unlucky? For you, it is unfortunate to interrupt the path of "learning and excellence" from the promotion of people to enter the army and enter Hanlin; For the nation, you have come to a new country due to the Meiji Restoration, and it is a great fortune to be able to explore the magical path of how a weak country can dominate at close range.
The mussel contains grains of sand, and the day when it turns into pearls is worth looking forward to.
At the beginning of your term of office, Japan, with its growing national strength, wanted to annex Ryukyu, a vassal state of China. You judged the situation and stated the countermeasures of the imperial court, believing that "if Ryukyu dies, within a few years, minhai will suffer first." He also predicted that Japan "has the ambition to dominate the world with a small life." At that time, Japan's ambitions were still hidden, and the Great Qing dynasty was also shrouded in superficial strength, but through the calm sea, you saw the iceberg of wolf's teeth and jagged teeth. You know, the "Small Kingdom of Qiu'er" in the mouth of the Heavenly Dynasty nobles is already full of wings, and if there is no sharp weapon in hand, it will soon be injured. Sadly, Yan Chao did not know that Li Hongzhang and Prime Minister Yamen had accused the embassy in Japan of being "too Zhang Huang" and would "radically change behavior", and even recalled Minister He Ruzhang to resolve the deadlock.
You know, you want to cry without tears. It turns out that in the hustle and bustle of the liquor store, sober people are outliers. Walking on the streets of the shoulders, you do not want to be a "passer-by" who turns around and is forgotten by history.
You began to write the "Chronicle of Japan", "with the intention of looking through the mirror, guiding the people of the country, and knowing the law of what to do." The book is a forty-volume book with more than 500,000 words, focusing on the changes in The social system after the Meiji Restoration in Japan. Leaning back on the broken mountains and rivers of China, overlooking the cherry blossoms all over dongying, you dip your heart in sorrow and indignation, to provide a feasible blueprint for China's transformation of the law, and to work hard not to leave a name for Qingshi. You understand that, relative to the rise and fall of a nation, personal honor and disgrace is nothing more than a grain of dust in the eyes of history, and a single tear is enough to drown it; You confessed, "All the records written today are detailed in the present and slightly ancient, and the details are slightly distant, and where the Western Law is involved, it is especially detailed, and the period is also applicable." ”
When the book is finished, you look out the window. The stars are dim and foggy, and the mountains and rivers are swallowed up by darkness, and the noise of the day is not seen. You throw your pen at the case, and your pride is like a hunting wind, across the sky. You know, the night hides too much truth, and you are using the rafters to open the corner of the night and let the truth be revealed. The warrior cannot walk with a sword, so turn the sword into light and send a dawn to the walkers in the night.
Huang Zunxian's "Human Realm Lu Poetry Grass"
Japan stepped down, and you went to the United States to serve as consul general of San Francisco.
Shaoguang is fleeting, and you expect more encounters; As long as the mission is on your shoulders, you are willing to keep walking.
San Francisco is a gathering place for Chinese people, and it coincides with the fact that the US authorities, in order to defuse the economic recession brought about by the economic crisis, use various pretexts to drive out overseas Chinese and set off a wave of Chinese exclusion.
That day, you came to a prison where a large number of Chinese workers were being held. The reason for the Chinese workers' imprisonment was that "the housing area does not meet the regulations, and the crowded and sanitary conditions are worrying." The warden was a middle-aged man in his forties who covered his beard with his hands and glanced indifferently at the Qing diplomat with long braids and waist.
You noticed the arrogance of the other party, not humble: "Mr. Warden, I have already measured the area of the cells, and I know the number of people held in each cell, even if you are not a high-achieving student in mathematics, it is not difficult to calculate the average area used by each person, right?" ”
The warden was stunned, he did not expect that this Chinese diplomat had come prepared, and had already done his homework.
You smiled slightly, there was anger in your smile, and there was even more nobility that was not subordinate: "Your Excellency, don't you think it is a little humorous that you imprisoned them here because of poor sanitary conditions?" Is the health condition and living conditions here better than those of overseas Chinese? The warden opened his mouth, trying to justify something, and was shocked by your artillery barrage, "You have imprisoned them in a worse environment under a ridiculous pretext, causing my diaspora to suffer deeply, which is really contrary to the concept of human rights advocated by your country, right?" ”
The warden was speechless. After your unremitting efforts, and even negotiations with the US attorney general, you finally forced the authorities to make concessions, and the rights and interests of Chinese workers were protected to a certain extent.
In November 1891, you were transferred to the Consul General of Singapore. "The blue sky is high, the yellow ground is thick, only to see the cold moon and warm sun, to fry life." You are 43 years old, you are not confused, your career is uncertain, and the emotional silence can be imagined. However, love is the flower of the heart, and when it blooms, the fragrance will spread along the fingertips. How many good things have you done to visit the sufferings of expatriates and promote the development of education? Go and ask the flying geese of the southern return. One thing in particular is to give you a goldfinger thumbs up. After you explained the pros and cons and repeatedly fought hard, the Qing government repealed the ban on the sea that had been implemented for nearly 200 years. The chasm is leveled, the graben becomes a smooth road, and the overseas Chinese can settle in their hometown no matter where they are.
The affectionate love for the nation and compatriots allows you to leave the glory of life in every line of footprints of the mission.
Information picture of Huang Zunxian's former residence "Renjinglu" in Meizhou City, Guangdong Province
Reform
In 1894, the First Sino-Japanese War, you predicted it.
This was the first head-on confrontation between the "Heavenly Dynasty" after the "Heavenly Dynasty" opened the Western Affairs Movement and Japan implemented the Meiji Restoration; The political system, military attainments and economic strength have been evident in the negatives of history. For a moment, grief flowed into a river. Whoops, a piece of water, a thousand fogs! Who says that as long as you close the window of your heart, you can guard your pride? Silence is not a cure for sorrow, but pain to the extreme can bring a person out of the world of solo dancing.
At the end of the year, you officially ended your diplomatic career and returned home from Singapore.
Behind him, there is an endless sea; In front of me, it is a long and majestic pass. You stand at the bow of the ship, letting the mighty sea breeze blow your face. Compared with when you crossed fuso in the east, in addition to perseverance, you have a little more wisdom, like after smelting by fire, you have turned iron into steel.
You went to Nanjing to meet Zhang Zhidong, a famous minister of the late Qing Dynasty, a pioneer of the Foreign Affairs Movement, advocating that middle school be the body and Western learning should be used, and in the position of a rich country and a strong army, you can be said to be closely related to you. You thought you would see each other and get a platform to show your ambitions. I don't want you to make a grand argument, Zhang Zhidong actually hummed a smile after listening to it, laughing a little perfunctorily, and the wrinkles on his face swung away like waves of water, like cracked land, thrilling.
You know the deep meaning of the smile, and disappointment is like the wind.
One day in September of the following year, the highlight of your life, was summoned by Guangxu at the Renshou Hall of the Summer Palace.
The young emperor did not wear imperial clothes, but wore a sapphire blue robe, a bright yellow vest with a shou character pattern on the background, and a black satin ruyi hat with red spikes on his head. Eyebrows like distant mountains, eyes like just stars, see you salute, between the smiles, there is a heroic spirit like the ripples of autumn water to the surroundings, refreshing people's hearts.
After the defeat of the First Sino-Japanese War, the long-delayed "Chronicle of Japan" was published and became popular.
However, in the projector of the times, you are not seen dancing, and you have been trapped by sorrow. "The country is unfortunate and the poet is lucky", not your wish!
The young emperor asked his master Weng Tonggong to find the book and praised it for "the change of the Ji Ri people is particularly detailed". Many of the reform edicts he later issued during the Hundred Days Restoration were directly derived from Kang Youwei's "Examination of Japanese Change of Government", and Kang's "Examination of Japanese Change of Government" was deeply influenced by the "Chronicle of Japan". He knew that you had sent many missions and had a broad vision, so he directly asked: "You say, how can the government of Taixi win over China?" ”
You get down on your knees and raise your head slightly, and you see the young emperor looking at himself expectantly. The moment the eyes meet, it is like an electric flint, stirring up a string of sparks in the deep historical tunnel. You feel the determination of the young emperor to change the Fa and try to be strong, and this determination is like a bean, but in the long night, a halo rises, so that your wandering soul can be converted: "The strength of Taixi must be changed by the Fa." The subject is in London, and he hears his father's old saying, a hundred years ago, it was not as good as China. ”
The young emperor heard the words and smiled at you. Taking the West as a teacher, leading the European wind to the east, and at the same time maintaining China's independence and self-confidence, is exactly the essence of Guangxu's transformation of the law and the strengthening of the law. The middle-aged man in front of him is concise and to the point, and it is really a rare talent for changing the law. Originally, there were two parallel straight lines, but they intersected at one point: one aimed at strengthening the country and enriching the people, and the other pushing forward the reform of the law. Like two spring walkers, walking under the same tree, the breeze blows, and the apricot blossom and peach rain falls on a full body.
Walking through the hustle and bustle of the world, the most important thing is to understand the place where the mind is going to reach.
Soon after you walked out of the Renshou Hall, you went to Hunan to act as an envoy, and your mind was still enlightened. You know, railways, mines, machinery can strengthen the body, education can make a nation mentally sound. The flower of reform that you have been brewing for a long time in the Chronicle of Japan has been able to bloom in this land. The New Deals are like arrows, crossing the dark historical sky and shooting at the feudal autocratic strongholds where the warts have been broken: women are strictly forbidden to wrap their feet; Founding of a new newspaper; A new-style school was established, and a security bureau was established as a "division of official powers" and jointly run by officials and gentry and businessmen... For a moment, the three Xiang lands, the new lotus competes, and the dark incense flows; The theory of civil rights, the theory of equality, and the discussion of restructuring are noisy.
The establishment of the South Society is a glorious stroke in your life.
At that time, when Germany invaded Jiaozhou, the theory of the division of China by the great powers began to rise. The benevolent people of Hunan made plans for the post-death period, si baoxiang's independence, let the people learn political skills, and the basis for his day, and pushed them to the southern provinces. In the future, although it encounters division, South China will not die, so it is called the Southern Society. With the approval of Inspector Chen Baozhen, the Society has the functions of participating in the administration and discussion of state affairs, selecting officials, formulating laws, cultivating talents, managing finances, and joining the group, which is actually the structure of the local council. It played an important role in increasing the political participation of the gentry and promoting the reform of the law, so as to achieve "If I change, China will change; If I stand, then China will stand" for the purpose.
The Southern Society will start on the seventh day, and Liang Qichao, Tan Sitong and you will give a lecture.
In your first speech, you walked on stage in green clothes and walked in style. Students did not expect that in the dull situation of being imprisoned like an iron barrel, such a beautiful flower of thought could bloom, and they were conquered by your charm. Charm is not abstract, it is a halo of education, ability, temperament and temperament refraction, invisible, but thriving.
As soon as you raise your hand, you stop the wave of applause again. Looking at the torch, he glanced at the fully packed venue, raised his voice and asked: "Gentlemen, Japan has inherited the Chinese style since the Sui and Tang Dynasties, taking me as a teacher, why did the First Sino-Japanese War make my generation ashamed; Taixi was a barbarian country for a hundred years, so why can it lead the world today? ”
The field was silent, as if a needle landed on the ground, which would also cause a loud noise.
You wave your hand downwards to everything, and the right color is alarmist: "Gein reformed the old law and divided power among the people." However, the literature and wilderness of the country will be divided by the wisdom and foolishness of the people. In order to raise the level of civilization of the people, we can first practice local autonomy of 'self-government and autonomy of their hometowns', promote schools and education, open up the wisdom of the people, assert the rights of the people, and cultivate the sense of participation and ability of the gentry and the common people to participate in politics. On this basis, by pushing a county, a province, and a province from one township to the whole country, it can become the rule of the republic and the grand track of the same world. ”
The applause was thunderous. As you said, when I first arrived in Japan, I was quite surprised to hear about civil rights, and even after reading it from rousseau and Montesquieu, my mind changed, and I firmly believed that the Taiping World would be in democracy. Like a flower, it is just a bud at the beginning, experiencing light and rain and dew, and then it will sing and bloom in the sky.
Unfortunately, the change is a brilliant firework, which withers away as soon as it blooms. It did not bring the terminally ill Qing back to life, but hung the last curtain in front of its spiritual hall.
People are unconscious, unpredictable, highlights and darkness, sometimes only between the turns of the head.
Shi Jie
Light a red candle, cook half a pot of fragrant tea, and we talk over the air.
You are a poet, and poetry is a spirit forged by temperament, which cannot be shaken off once it is injected into the shell of life. Whether you are abroad or participating in the transformation of the Fa, poetry is inseparable from you, that is, the light of life that you project.
The poems are deeply understood by the national style, and the Tang poems and Song poems are at hand. You spit out lotus flowers, analyze Chinese culture, and hang your hands in the sky, which is a brilliant cloud; In front of the eyes, there is a splendid river and mountain. No wonder Japanese friends regard you as Tarzan Beidou; Talking to you, their hearts sway, they only hate the misalignment of time and space, they can't drink with Li Bai under the moon, meet du Fu in Maolu, accompany Li Qingzhao to play the piano and stroke the strings, listen to last night's rain and wind, and sigh that the thick sleep does not consume the wine; With Xin abandoning the rapid leaping horse to close the mountain, drunkenly picking up the lamp to see the sword, dreaming of blowing the horn company camp.
Naturally, they are equally intoxicated by your superb poetry.
Starting from the dimension of time and space, scholars classify your poems into two categories: poems of poetic history, that is, painting magnificent pictures of modern history from the time dimension, "feeling the changes in the country, slandering the race, and mourning the people"; New World Poetry, that is, showing a colorful picture of the world from the spatial dimension, "the view of the outside world, the words of the heart".
"There is something outside the poem, there is someone in the poem" is the core of your poetry theory.
"There is something outside the poem" is to take real life as the starting point, depict the great social changes that are taking place, and use poetry as a high-definition camera to record the evolution of history; "There are people in the poems" is to "write my mouth by hand", through the poet's social experience, express a unique sense of life, so that the poem blooms with a gorgeous emotional flower.
Defeated in the Battle of Jia Wu, you have a poem "Mourning Lushun", which shocks the world, weeps ghosts and gods, and is worthy of poetry and history. Lushun Fortress is the image of the mother of the motherland in your heart, so you do not hesitate to praise it, and the opening chapter is to praise its magnificence: "The sea is a flood of smoke and nine points", overlooking the vast land of Shenzhou, the magnificent Lushun Port and its endless sea, but a cup of sea water, a few points of green smoke; Looking at the inside and outside of the military port, red-clad cannons stand on the turrets, new warships are moored in the docks, and dragon flags are displayed everywhere.
Lushun Port, the Qing government has been operating for many years, costing countless money, and Japan laments that it is "unparalleled in the Orient". However, the war fell shortly after it began. The Japanese army slaughtered the city, the corpses were like a mountain, and the survivors of the city's residents were 36 people. The best weapons and equipment, the most humiliating fiasco, your emotions flowed down, falling from the high mountains into the deep streams, choking and losing your voice: "One day disintegrates into the ashes of the disaster, and the enemy is heard coming from behind." Why did the mighty military port of "Incomparable in the Orient" collapse in one fell swoop? The reason given by the authorities is that because of the sneak attack of the Japanese army, the poet did not directly refute this absurd prevarication, but triggered our deep introspection and strong indignation through the comparison between before and after.
Standing in the sunset of the nineteenth century, as a diplomat, your "New World Poem" naturally occupies an important space. In the face of the new things spawned by Western industrial civilization, you sigh, marvel, and envy: "Don't turn your intestines like a wheel, a moment is a thousand weeks." "You use the wheel metaphor to say goodbye to the intestines, marvel at the speeding train; And this poem set in the Western Industrial Revolution, but the title of "Parting Now", "Seeing the two wheels, increasing the central worry", is because you have too many entanglements. It is also an expression of the sorrow of men and women, because with modern means of transportation such as trains and ships as emotional carriers, there is a special situation between China and the West. Yes, Western civilization has taken the train of the industrial revolution through one historical platform after another, and the Qing Dynasty, known as the "Heavenly Dynasty and the Kingdom of Heaven", is still pestering foreign emissaries to see that the Chinese emperor should prostrate his head a few times to meet the etiquette system.
Whether it is the poetry of poetry history or the poetry of the New World, there is a red line infused into it: anti-imperialist patriotism, changing the law and trying to be strong. You are hailed by the poetry community as the standard-bearer of the poetic revolution, not only in a new poetic style, abandoning the tedious form; It is even more important to give poetry a new ideological content. Rather than using poetry to promote the poetry revolution, it is better to say that you are using poetry as a torch to lead the pace of the times. Your poems are the ceiling of modern new poetry, and you are also the top of the literary world. Because of your existence, the banner of the poetry revolution can be displayed in the wind, the history of modern Chinese literature will blossom, and you are deservedly praised by Liang Qichao as the first of the "three masters of poetry in recent times".
You are not proud of poetry, but poetry fulfills you. Imagine, without the Japanese Miscellaneous Poems and the Renjing Lu Poetry, you would have been just an ambitious reformer, a diplomat with outstanding style, who might have left a few lines of cold writing in the annals of history; With the new school of poetry that swallows the sun and the moon and absorbs hundreds of rivers, the scene is different. Your joys and sorrows appear from time to time between the lines, and you become vivid, vivid, three-dimensional and full. Not only can we see every wrinkle on your face and stroke every white hair of yours, but we can also follow the verses into your broad heart. You are like a fisherman, riding the boat of poetry built with your heart and blood, leading us through the storms and beauty of life. Your grief and anger are as thin as the autumn wind, piling up all the feelings in our hearts; Your thoughts are like summer fireflies, lighting up the enchanting scenery of the sea from time to time.
Retreat
In October 1899, riding on a flat leaf boat, you embarked on the return of your life.
Two years ago, you flew away with great pride and devoted yourself to changing the Fa; Two years later, you returned to your original hometown, and in addition to the few boxes of books you bought in your lifetime, there was only a sense of sadness and anger, and a breeze on both sleeves.
Take off the cadre uniforms of the Great Qing Dynasty, change into a long shirt and two cloth shoes, and you enter and exit the "Human Realm Lu" on the banks of the ZhouXi River in the eastern suburbs of Meizhou. This is your study, taking tao Yuanming's verse "Knotted in the human realm, but no carriages and horses" poem. There are three points of water, four points of bamboo, and seven minutes of the moon; From the five-step building, the ten-step pavilion, looking at the hundred steps of the Yangtze River. You have to settle your soul in this quiet place. If there is no mediation from friends and the intervention of the Japanese and British embassies, perhaps you, like the six gentlemen of Wushu, have been spattered with blood. But you are not depressed, running a school to revitalize education, and saving fire; Shuzhai friends, poetry and wine singing; Correspondence with displaced reformers to excite the written word; The curtain of life after the retreat is still painted by you. It's just that all of this is hard to relieve your sadness. Although you are in your prime, your state of mind is squeezed like a west wind by this dreary situation. As an old-fashioned reader, you failed to get in and out; As a new reformer, you have not been able to save the day. There is a heart full of blood and talent, but it can only sigh in the cracks of history, leaving a few frames of lonely and lonely backs for future generations.
"The public talent is not born, and the name of the poem is sloppy", this is the sigh issued by a friend, and why is it not the knot of your life that has not been solved? "Let the public slaughter a country, and the small fresh can really cook", your governing ability is far above the skill of writing poetry. Horses out of the pen, give you a piece of grassland, you can step out of the smoke all the way; Kunpeng spreads its wings, gives you a blue sky, and you can pull out a day of color. Unfortunately, the changes in the world are always succumbing to the limitations of history.
Who says that wise men are born with great power? In the red dust world, there are also winds and waves that he can't stand.
You have a spirit in heaven, and you may have a relationship with future generations to call you "the first person in modern China to go to the world".
You were not the first Qing diplomat to send an overseas mission; Open your eyes to the world, Lin Zexu is more than 50 years ahead of you, why do you only enjoy this honor? Is it because Rousseau and Darwin's theory of civil covenant and evolution were first introduced to China by you? Is it because you wrote the "Chronicle of Japan" with more than 500,000 words, which provided a complete reference for China's transformation of the law and its efforts to become stronger, and became an important ideological resource for the reformists? Yes and no. Lin Zexu was the first person in China to open his eyes to the world, but he relied on indirect information, had no on-the-spot feelings, misread and misinterpreted, and his proposition of "mastering the art of mastering the art to control the yi" still stayed in the "artifact"; Your thinking goes deep into the level of institutions and ideas. Unlike Guo Songtao, Li Shuchang and others, they went to the West to adopt the torch for the people of china, but they lacked the comparison of different political systems such as Japan, Britain, and the United States. Only you, zero-distance investigation of various political models in the West, in order to safeguard the interests of Chinese workers in the United States, have repeatedly hired lawyers to fight lawsuits, and have a clear understanding of the capitalist judicial system, forming a clear path to change the law and strive to strengthen: "administration" and "deliberation" are separated, the central and local governments are separated, and the spirit of "civil rights" and "autonomy" is infused into it. Compared with kang, Liang and others' "scholarly theory", you also have rich practical experience, and assisted Chen Baozhen in the reform of the law in Hunan.
I'm confused. In the early years, you met with Li Hongzhang and had a conversation, and he called you a "bully." But when you went to Japan, you still relied on your father's relationship; After ending your diplomatic career, when you met Zhang Zhidong and wanted to show his ambitions and was ordered to solve the problem of teaching cases that made officials from all sides regard them as "hot potatoes," he only became acquainted with people, so that the teaching cases accumulated in the Jiangnan region for many years "have no indemnities, no apologies, no involvement of the gentry, no involvement of the common people, and all are cleared." Xiang Shuai only praised you in the recital and did not promote you.
Why? I guess, first of all, you have no merit. Since the Sui and Tang Dynasties established the imperial examination system to descend, readers can only find the rank of promotion in the toilet body, you have taken the exam three times and failed the list three times, there is no axe in your hand, what is Nai Gui Mountain? In the hierarchical political genealogy of the Qing Dynasty, the possibility of you rising to the center or taking the helm with hard-won seniority is almost zero. Moreover, you are not a protégé or a former official of the big guy, nor do you have a heavyweight recommendation, so you can't really enter the circle of friends. It is not difficult to say a few kind words, but if you are real, you will say something else. Second, the political arena of the late Qing Dynasty was like a pool of stagnant water, rotten and sour, and the dark hammer hit people. You are arrogant and indulgent, you look at the past and the present, your voice is smiling, and you often open sinners without knowing it. Zhang Zhidong summoned you back from Singapore, and only let you deal with the lesson plan that others avoided. Third, the concept is different. Li and Zhang were representatives of the Western affairs faction, who believed that it was okay to imitate Western shipbuilding and artillery, the ancestral law was immutable, and the concept still stayed at the level of "artifacts"; And your advocacy of learning from the West has gone deep into culture and thought. The "Chronicle of Japan" is completed, and you hope to publish it as soon as possible through official channels and present it to Li Hongzhang with great interest. Lord Zhongtang turned over this huge work that could be passed on to future generations, and discarded it a little perfunctorily; You were not willing to be treated with this cold treatment, and instead turned to Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Liangguang, and pleaded with him to "submit to the Great Counsel and send it to the General Administration." Unexpectedly, the disappointment was a bird injured by the same kind of projectile, flapping its wings and returning to the same destination.
Inspector Chen Baozhen of Hunan is sincerely helping you. Of course, he hopes to be able to cut the west window candle with you one day, but it is too late for the night rain to rise in the autumn pool.
Guangxu summoned you, it was a perfect time for a carp to jump the dragon gate. He had a good impression of you, and afterwards he wanted to send you to serve as a minister in England and Germany, and if he did, he would be promoted to a high-ranking cadre in the Qing Dynasty, but he was stranded because the envoy country was unwilling. You were doing a good job in Hunan, and the young emperor was naturally so pleased that he decided to appoint you as the new minister in Japan, intending to improve your qualifications, and it is said that he will soon summon you to Beijing, "the center of the general collar, and implement the new policy." Unfortunately, the change failed, and everything was in vain. Once the flowering period is missed, where will the fruit come out? Fate seems to have been playing a game of carousel with you, chasing you all the way, but there is a constant distance that cannot be crossed. There is nowhere to spill the blood, the blue bird has not arrived, and the sideburns have been frosted.
History has bred you and failed you; The times have made you and missed you.
On March 28, 1905, a generation of people died depressed. Yaotai Silver Que and drums sing in unison welcome your soul back to heaven and engrave your name on the monument of history.
- Huang Zunxian, Zi Gongdu, nicknamed the master of renjinglu. An outstanding poet, diplomat, thinker and statesman of the late Qing Dynasty, "the first person in modern China to go to the world".
What is history? Hugo said that it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. It's just that it always has to be attached. In my heart, the background of history is the daily expression of countless sentient beings: numbness, helplessness, anger, longing; The wise men who lead the way of the times color it with their super-dusty words and deeds, making history vivid, vivid, prominent and full of texture. They are fortunate to leave their names, and behind each name are the tears, struggles and laughter of countless ordinary people. History is thus no longer a cold record and a dull number, but a long scroll of landscapes that can connect the past, the present and the future, every subtle part is thrilling, and every depiction is steaming.
You have exhausted all your life's efforts, hoping to make the Chinese nation stand tall among the nations of the world through reform, "the yellow people hold up the sun and hold up the air, and let the light shine on the thousands"; The failure of the change of law, "endure the disaster of The Divine State in Chi County, and feel even more that it is difficult for the yellow people to hold the day"; In the face of chaotic clouds and flying, I still firmly believe: "A round of red sun surging in the east, about my yellow people to hold."
What is it? This is the power of faith, the heart of the blue blood, the unswerving.
- Metricity, Metricity, Where is it tonight? Green plantains, red maple trees. The yellow man holds the sun, a dream for a hundred years, know it or not, know it or not, and illuminate the light of the Divine State.
Guangming Daily ( 2022-07-08 13 edition)
Source: Guangming Network - Guangming Daily