Roads in cities are sometimes named after people. Usually, the name has a special meaning. In chongqing's Liberation Monument, there is a street called Zou Rong Road. So, who is Zou Rong?
Zou Rong, born in Chongqing in 1885, died in a prison in Shanghai in 1905, at the age of 20, but was posthumously awarded the title of General by the Provisional Government of Nanjing. Such a legendary life experience is the reason why Zou Rong is remembered by the world. As a Chongqing native, what kind of story does Zou Rong have?
Zou Rong originally did not call this name, Shao Tao and Gui Wen were his names, and Wei Dan was his word. His ancestral home was originally Macheng, Hubei Province, because his father Zou Zipan was engaged in cotton yarn, cotton cloth and other miscellaneous goods business, and traveled all over the world all year round, and Zou Rong was born in Chongqing.
Because of the family relationship, Zou Rong was able to receive a good education from an early age, coupled with Zou Rong's talent and intelligence, so when he was eleven or twelve years old, it was very common to be familiar with such things as the Four Books and Five Classics. After the bus in 1895, the Restoration faction took to the stage of history, and the Restoration Movement was on the rise. Zou Rong also began to contact some "new learning" ideas, which were subtly affected and began to seek change in thinking.
In 1897, Zou Rong, who had reached the age of 12, and his eldest brother took the Ba County Boy Examination, which was the qualification examination before the traditional imperial examination. However, Zou Rong, who was trendy in thought and somewhat rebellious, actually collided with the chief examiner on the spot because the examination questions were strange, and immediately left the examination. After that, although he was scolded by his father, the stubborn Zou Rong still refused to bow his head, and said that "the stinky eight strands are unwilling to learn, and the whole field is unwilling to enter." What is the use of the name of the world? Such words.
However, the young Zou Rong also had to obey his father's arrangement, and then entered the Chongqing Jingxue Academy to be taught, which also told the Confucian classics. However, although he reluctantly entered the academy to study, Zou Rong still insisted on his own ideological concepts. After attacking these traditional ideas and doctrines, the academy was no longer willing to accept him, and Zou Rong was expelled.
In 1898, due to the failure of the Wushu Reform Law, Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao fled abroad, while Tan Si and the six gentlemen of Wushu were brutally killed. This incident also had a great impact on Zou Rong, in addition to the regret of the Peng shu change method, Zou Rong also began to think about how to carry out the change, and what kind of way it needs to be realized. Learning a new trend of thought was what Zou Rong was eagerly hoping for at that time.
In order to study better, Zou Rong decided to study in Japan. In 1901, when Sichuan Province sent students to Study in Japan for the first time, Zou Rong decided to take the exam. The father could only agree to Zou Rong's request, but there was still a big difference between what his father thought and what Zou Rong thought. His father only hoped that Zou Rong would return from school and still be able to go to the imperial court to seek a meritorious name.
Originally having passed the exam and was about to leave for Japan, Zou Rong was falsely accused of being "intelligent and undignified" and was immediately removed. Without public funds, Zou Rong could only take the road of self-payment. However, his father did not agree, and Zou Rong made up his mind. He borrowed travel expenses from relatives and set off from Chongqing to Shanghai to learn Japanese for a while in preparation for going to Japan. His father, under persuasion, agreed to pay for his study in Japan.
During his studies in Japan, Zou Rong was very serious and hardworking. He not only dabbled in a wide range of Western works, but also actively participated in various activities of international students, and actively gave speeches at the assembly site. His democratic ideas gradually sprouted and he had a strong revolutionary tendency. The name Zou Rong was also changed during his study in Japan. Because he was infected by the patriotic atmosphere of salvation in Japan, he felt that he had been reborn and changed, so he changed his name to Zou Rong, which symbolizes the changes that have taken place since then.
After studying in Japan for a period of time, because he offended Yao Wenfu, the qing government's army student stationed in Japan at that time, Zou Rong was accused, and at the same time caused the anger of the Qing government, under the pressure of many parties, Zou Rong could only be forced to return to China.
After returning to China, Zou Rong began to actively participate in revolutionary activities. Among the many revolutionary activities in which Zou Rong participated, the book "Revolutionary Army" written by him is undoubtedly of far-reaching significance. At that time, the Shanghai revolutionary periodical "Su Bao" first published the preface to "Revolutionary Army" written by Zou Rong, and at the same time, it also published many commentaries on "Revolutionary Army". In this way, the Revolutionary Army was better disseminated. At that time, the Revolutionary Army was even praised as "the first textbook of national education."
However, it was precisely because of the wide spread of the Revolutionary Army that it brought disasters to the Su Bao and Zou Rong. Because the ideas preached by the Revolutionary Army made the Qing government feel threatened, it colluded with imperialism and closed down the "Su Bao". Many people related to the "Su Bao" were arrested, including Zhang Taiyan. In order to suffer with Zhang Taiyan, Zou Rong took the initiative to go to the capture room and went to prison together.
In fact, from the time Zou Rong was imprisoned, he held the determination to sacrifice for the revolution. In prison, he and Zhang Taiyan gave poetry to Mingzhi and were still full of confidence in the future. Although he was only sentenced to 2 years in prison, because of long-term persecution, Zou Rong died in prison before he was about to be released from prison. The 20-year-old revolutionary pioneer said goodbye to the world. After that, Zou Rong's body was buried in Huajing Township, Shanghai, and later, the Provisional Government of Nanjing posthumously awarded him the title of General.
In order to express the commemoration of Zou Rong, there is a Zou Rong Road in Chongqing, the birthplace of Zou Rong, and Shanghai. Chongqing's Zourong Road is located in the bustling Jiefangbei business district, close to Zourong Road, and Zourong Square, which are the memorials of the people of Chongqing. Not only that, Chongqing also built the Zou Rong Martyrs Monument, and a park was also built near there, named Zou Rong Park. Flowers are often presented here to express the memory of the martyr Zou Rong.
Just like Zou Rong's signature in his "Revolutionary Army", he is indeed a pawn in the revolutionary army.
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