On July 7, 1937, the Lugou Bridge Incident broke out, Peiping City fell on July 29, and the old bureaucrats, warlords, and politicians who had been frustrated for many years, such as Jiang Chaozong, Wang Kemin, Pan Yugui, Qi Xieyuan, and so on, were active everywhere, betraying the country and seeking glory.
Chen Sanli (Chinese: 陈三立; pinyin: Zhān līn Lên), courtesy name Bo Yan (字伯彦), was a native of Yining (present-day Xiushui), Jiangxi, a scholar in the 12th year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1886), who served as the editor of the Sanguan and the head of the bureaucracy, and his father, Chen Baozhen (陈宝箴箴) and the Governor of Hunan at the time of the Reformation of the Law. Chen Sanli, Tan Sitong, Xu Renzhu and Tao Jucun, known as the Four Princes in Hai Nei, were famous for their talents. Huang Zunxian organized the Southern Society, and the nature was between lectures and politics, and it was Huang Zunxian and Chen Sanli who presided over the work. After the failure of the Penghu Reform Law, Chen Sanli's father and son were dismissed, and Chen Sanli was greatly stimulated, and from then on, he indulged in landscapes and rivers, immersed himself in poetry, and never talked about current politics.
In 1911, the Xinhai Revolution overthrew the Qing Dynasty, Puyi abdicated, and the Republic of China was established. Chen Sanli not only did not remember the faults of the Qing Dynasty, but on the contrary, he remembered the Qing Dynasty, regarded himself as an "old man left behind by the Qing Dynasty", and resolutely refused to cut his braids. The Ministry of Education of the Republic of China asked Chen Sanli to compile the national anthem, but Chen Sanli refused to resign.
In 1932, when Japan invaded Shanghai, he became angry and sick, and in 1933, after he moved to Beiping, his old friends Zheng Xiaoxu and Luo Zhenyu dragged him to Changchun puppet Manchukuo to become a traitor, but he sternly refused. After the July 7 Incident in 1937, Pingjin fell into the hands of the enemy, and the Japanese invaders repeatedly sent Zhou Zuoren to pull him to a pseudo-post, but he refused to see him. Plainclothes agents monitored his movements in front of his house every day, and Chen Sanli asked the male servant to drive him away with a broom. On September 14 of this year, Chen Sanli died on a five-day hunger strike, shaking the dignity of the Chinese nation with his life!
With a good family style, chen Sanli can naturally cultivate excellent children, Chen Sanli has five sons, all of whom are outstanding figures. The eldest son, Chen Hengke, is a famous painter and art educator in modern times; the second son, Chen Longke, a famous poet; the third son, Chen Yinke, the most prestigious master of traditional Chinese studies, historian, linguist, and poet in modern China; the fourth son, Chen Fangke, a famous editor and poet; and Chen Dengke, the fifth son, a famous expert in classical literature.