After a hard time, the stars fell around.
The mountains and rivers are broken and the wind is fluttering, and the life is floating and raining.
The panic beachhead said trepidation, zero Ding Yang sighed zero Ding.
Life since ancient times who has not died, leave Dan heart to sweat and green.
——Wen Tianxiang, "Crossing Zero Ding Yang"
Wen Tianxiang's death, on the one hand, was the brutality of the Yuan Dynasty, and on the other hand, his martyrdom and spirit. However, the people of Jiangnan's hometown had strong expectations for his martyrdom and sacrifice to him, which prompted his early death and also accelerated Wen Tianxiang's execution.
From the day he was arrested, Wen Tianxiang would sacrifice his life for justice as much as possible. In December 1278, Wen Tianxiang was attacked by Yuan forces in Haifeng, Guangdong Province, and was eventually captured. In April of the following year, he was escorted to Guangzhou, and when Wen Tianxiang entered Jiangxi as a prisoner, he decided to start a hunger strike, but he did not starve to death, so he hoped that he would have the opportunity to escape, so he cooperated with the escort of the Yuan army to continue north.
However, at that time, the news of Wen Tianxiang's arrest spread throughout Jiangnan, and he did not sacrifice himself, leaving many people like needles. By this time, the Southern Song Dynasty had been completely destroyed, and countless officials in "Old China", including Wen Tianxiang's younger brother, had either been killed or surrendered. The silent people are not unpatriotic, it is just that they do not intend to sacrifice themselves, which is the practice of the "meat eaters" as high-ranking officials, but they also have expectations, they want others to die for "old China".
Now, the whole of Jiangnan is looking forward to Wen Tianxiang's early death.
However, it was Wen Tianxiang's former subordinates who loudly shouted out the voice of the "silent majority", and he joined the cause of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in his compatriot (now Ji'an) in Luling. However, due to his mother's illness, he soon returned to the countryside, so he avoided the fate of being captured. At that time, when the 28-year-old Wang Yanwu heard that Wen Tianxiang had been escorted by a boat to Jiangxi, he composed more than 1,800 words of "Sheng Sacrifice Wen Cheng Xiang Wen":
"If you insist on it again, you will not hear of it." Haojie's view is difficult to predict. Because he and Liu Yaoju shared the bed, they were grateful for it. Yao Ju xian fu yun: "Tianliu Neutron follows the lone bamboo, who will go to the West Mountain Rice Boyi?" To hear the meaning of his next sentence is to say that Bo Yi will not die for a long time, and there will be food. To say: 'If the word has the meaning of worrying about its hunger and wishing for the people to be paid, please change it to the word How?' 'Yao Juran..."
Moreover, Wang Yanwu also copied nearly a hundred "sacrifice texts" and spread them everywhere. In short, Wen Cheng should die as soon as possible, and only when he dies can he clarify his ambitions. His life must end, and everything Wang Yanwu did was to encourage Wen Tianxiang to "die quickly" to maintain his integrity. In fact, Wang Yanwu's behavior, in fact, also represented the moral demand of the "silent majority" under the iron hooves of the Yuan Army at that time, which greatly shocked this era.
Wang Yanwu's persuasion of Wen Tianxiang to sacrifice was based on social psychology.
After entering the Song Dynasty, Chinese culture attached great importance to the spirit of the individual, but not many people could consciously practice, and most people did not sacrifice themselves, but encouraged others to sacrifice for the sake of lofty moral values. Wang Yanwu's direct proposal not only put pressure on Wen Tianxiang's morality, but also was unprecedented. For thousands of years, Wen Tianxiang has been regarded as a hero, and his deeds have been passed down for thousands of years.
In the long history of China, Wen Tianxiang is the only one.
Therefore, some people praised Wang Yanwu's sacrifice text, saying: "This reflects his tragic loyalty." "Under the lofty moral concept, Chinese have a kind of disregard for life in their hearts, that is, for the literati who are prisoners of the enemy, and for the disrespectful women, they hope that these people will be able to keep their integrity. If it is put back, it will be morally discriminated against for a lifetime, almost as a result of surrender and rebellion.
Of course, for those who wished to commit suicide among the captured and humiliated women, their task was to spread the heroic deeds of the martyrs and honor these women in the Chastity Arch. However, under moralism, Wang Yanwu's persuasion to die showed a coldness to basic life, and he did not stand on Wen Tianxiang's position in life, but asked Wen Tianxiang to sacrifice himself for moral ideals.
Of course, Wen Tianxiang's life and death needed to be chosen by himself, and no matter how many sacred ideals or standards were used, the world had no right to demand that others die. The embodiment of one's own value depends on oneself, and others have no right to interfere with it, so Wang Yanwu's exhortation to death is a kind of disregard for Wen Tianxiang's life, and its appearance is not a cultural honor, but a cultural withering away.
In the three and a half years from Wang Yanwu's "life and death sacrifice text" to Wen Tianxiang's murder, when Wen Tianxiang was sentenced in prison, the people in his hometown hoped that Wen Tianxiang, who had made outstanding contributions to the Southern Song Dynasty, would live longer and that he would die early.
This is a kind of sadness, but Wen Tianxiang can sacrifice himself according to his "ideals". To Wang Yanwu's disappointment, Wen Tianxiang did not see his advice on death. Because, Wang Yanwu obviously underestimated Wen Tianxiang's temperament, and without their urging, Wen Tianxiang also had the courage and determination to commit suicide. Wen Tianxiang is a dignified person, he has a transcendent spirit in the face of the great national righteousness, and he never abandons the great righteousness for his own selfishness.
In his heart, a person's integrity is above all else, a nation with a soul, a nation with an indomitable spirit and a nation that is not afraid of death, he is still alive in our hearts, living as a tombstone figure, immortal in our hearts. On December 9, 1282, Wen Tianxiang finally committed suicide for justice. Wang Yanwu was even more sad to hear of Wen Tianxiang's death, because Wen Tianxiang's death sentence had long been decided by him.
After completing his mission in the previous sacrificial article, he wrote another article, the first of which was: "The prime minister is going to die. I would like to toast you more and make another speech..." Soon after the song dynasty died, the world moved and changed its fortunes, and because of the painful national defeat, it was renamed Yan Wu, and it was not shi for life.
It can be said that in the history of the Chinese nation, there are many heroes like Wen Tianxiang. They stand up in the face of the country's peril and want to save the situation with their own efforts. Although they knew what the outcome would be, they still chose to sacrifice their lives and forget their deaths, and death could not touch their patriotic hearts at all. It is the existence of such a group of people that gives the whole country a driving force and a source of development.
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[Yaoshan Tang Waiji - Volume 63 Song, Song Shi Vol. 418 Liechuan No. 177]