Just as Sun Wen was founding the Xingzhong Association and seeking to launch a revolution overseas, 28-year-old Zhang Binglin was hiding in the Jingjing Fine House presided over by the master of scripture Yu Yue (1821-1907), writing his "Spring and Autumn Zuo Biography Reading" (five volumes), refuting the Qing dynasty writer Liu Fenglu's "Zuo Chuan" and not "Spring and Autumn".
However, he did not concentrate on the study of ancient scripture literature in the "Notes on Living Alone" written in 1894, and he could not help but send 16 silver yuan as membership fees to join the Shanghai Qiang Society established by Kang Youwei.
In January 1897, he left the Jingjing Fine House and went to Shanghai to work in the newspaper of the Shiji Bao, written by Liang Qichao. Three months later, dissatisfied with Kang Youwei's proposal to establish the Confucian Sect and self-proclaimed "sect leader", he left Shanghai and returned to Hangzhou in anger after being besieged and beaten by Kang's disciples.
After returning to Hangzhou, he co-founded the "Xingzhejiang Society", wrote articles for the "Shi Journal" and the "Translation Association", and published articles containing reformist ideas, revolutionary consciousness, and the essence of Confucian classics, which won him the respect of people from all walks of life.
Zhang Zhidong invited him to Wuchang in the spring of 1898 to organize the "Zheng Journal", but left before January; In July, he served as the chief writer of Changyan Daily in Shanghai, and published articles supporting the reform of the law such as "Shang Martingale", "The Difficulty of Fighting the Army", and "The Prison of Revolutionary Government Since the Book of Han".
After the coup, his family took refuge in Taiwan to escape persecution by the Qing government, but maintained correspondence with Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao.
In 1899, at the invitation of Liang Qichao and students studying in Japan, he traveled east to Japan and met Sun Wen, but soon left Japan and returned to China to become the chief writer of the Yadong Times.
At this time, Zhang Binglin was already a revolutionary national revolutionary who advocated change to save the country, and during the Boxer Rebellion, he was invited to attend the "Congress" meeting that Tang Cai often held in Shanghai, and cut his braid in public to show his break with the Manchu Qing.
In 1903, he taught at the Shanghai Patriotic Society, met Zou Rong, Zhang Shizhao, etc., wrote the foreword to Zou Rong's "Revolutionary Army", and also published "Refutation of Kang Youwei's Revolutionary Book", which began to abandon the idea of social reform.
In the winter of 1904, Cai Yuanpei established the Guangfu Association in Shanghai, and Zhang Binglin joined as the backbone.
Zhang Binglin's revolutionary transformation from Confucianism to reform represents the evolution of the mental path of the intellectual hierarchy of scholars with radical tendencies before the upcoming social revolution. And the thinking of young people who do not yet qualify as independent intellectuals is much simpler. For these young people, the most exciting thing is to openly advocate anti-Manchu and advocate revolution, as the revolutionaries do.
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