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He is a big man and a little man.
He is an immortal hero and an infatuated Langjun.
The eight words "children's love is long, and the true character of heroes" is vividly reflected in his body, and he is Lin Juemin, one of the 72 martyrs of Huanghuagang.
On April 3, Ma Ying-jeou, who came to Huanghuagang to pay respects, burst into tears because of Lin Juemin's farewell letter, and this hero who died heroically at the age of 24 has a heart-warming poem in his life.
What is Lin Juemin's special life experience, and what happened to his descendants?
Youthful ambition
On 3 April, Ma Ying-jeou, former chairman of the Kuomintang, and a group of young people from Taiwan came to Huanghuagang in Guangzhou to pay respects to the revolutionary martyrs who died here 113 years ago.
Under the narrator's explanation, the uprising before dawn, the blood-colored wolf smoke, seems to reappear in front of you across time and space.
When mentioning Lin Juemin, one of the 72 martyrs of Huanghuagang, and his masterpiece "Letter to His Wife", Ma Ying-jeou choked up several times and shed tears on the spot.
Although this revolutionary who died young died like a meteor, his story and achievements are enough to shine forever in the vast galaxy of Chinese history.
In 1887, Lin Juemin was born in Min County, Fujian, his elder brother was a famous politician and diplomat Lin Changmin in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, who served as the chief justice of the Republic of China and other positions, and Lin Changmin also has a daughter known as the "goddess of the Republic of China", which is the well-known talented woman Lin Huiyin.
Although his brother and niece were both influential figures during the Republic of China, Lin Juemin's fame did not rely on strong relatives.
The Lin family is a well-known family in Fujian, a scholarly family, Lin Juemin's biological father Lin Xiaosuigui is a scholar of the dynasty, and he was awarded the Hanlin Academy to edit, which can be described as a promising future.
Before he could remember, Lin Juemin was passed on by his father to his childless uncle Lin Xiaoying, Lin Xiaoying was also a famous man in the late Qing Dynasty, and regarded Lin Juemin as his own, and carefully cultivated Lin Juemin since he was a child, hoping that he could lead the Lin family to further progress in his career.
Lin Xiaoying is rich in learning, and his knowledge is several grades higher than that of the teacher in the private school, so naturally there is no need to send Lin Juemin to the school, so he left him at home to teach knowledge in person.
Lin Juemin is talented and has an unforgettable talent, and he can memorize the Four Books and Five Classics backwards when he was a teenager.
In the late Qing Dynasty, the invasions of foreign powers not only brought land reparations, but also introduced Western democratic ideas into the self-contained Qing Dynasty, and learning from the West gradually became a trend.
From his father's study, Lin Juemin could often read foreign books that had just been translated, and the ideas in the books about democratic countries fascinated Lin Juemin.
Although he was still young and his family was well-off, from the conversations between his parents and the homeless people everywhere, Lin Juemin saw the most corrupt and dilapidated side of the feudal dynasty.
The other side of the new era seems to be only one step away, but the shackles of the old era have trapped the body of the Chinese nation trying to move forward in place, and the cramped reality is like a boulder pressing on Lin Juemin's chest.
In his view, simple reforms can no longer save this terminally ill country, and the only way out for China is to break it down and reshape its mountains and rivers.
Under the influence of Western democratic thought, Lin Juemin no longer wants to follow the footsteps of his father, and he is determined to embark on a new path.
At the age of 13, under the arrangement of his father, Lin Juemin participated in the imperial examination for boys.
For Lin Juemin at that time, this level of imperial examination was completely out of the question, but at this time he hated the old-fashioned imperial examination system.
After entering the examination room, Lin Juemin waved the seven characters "The young man does not look forward to the marquis of ten thousand households" on the examination paper, and then looked up to the sky and laughed and went out, unwilling to be a person in the imperial examination again.
In 1902, Lin Juemin was admitted to the Quanmin University Hall directly under the Governor's Palace, and formally came into contact with revolutionary ideas in this new-style school.
At that time, most of the young people who were willing to accept the new education had the ideal of saving the country and saving the people, and in this environment, Lin Juemin was like a fish in water, often talking about Western democratic ideas with like-minded classmates, and they secretly gathered to explore the truth of saving the country and saving the people.
Lin Juemin stood out among this group of young people, often speaking surprisingly in their exchanges, and since then he has advocated that "non-revolution cannot be self-reliant", which is clearly distinguishing him from the reformists.
In 1905, Lin Juemin married Chen Yiying, who was also from a scholarly family.
When the two got married, although Lin Juemin was only eight buckets tall, his family was surrounded by four walls, and there was only one bed, a table and two chairs at home, but Chen Yiying didn't think so, she took a fancy to Lin Juemin's outstanding talent, so she was willing to accompany him to live a poor life.
In order to break through this restriction, Lin Juemin and a few classmates simply moved to the north of the city to run a private school to promote more radical revolutionary ideas.
Not only that, but he also founded a women's school in his home, mobilized his wife, cousins and others to join it, spread Western ideas of equality between men and women, and encouraged them to remove footcloths.
Unconsciously, time flies, Lin Juemin turned 20, in the process of establishing private schools, newspapers and periodicals, Lin Juemin gradually realized his own shortcomings, and he began to look forward to the world outside China in the year of weakness.
The railroad in all directions, the skyscrapers taller than the Governor's Palace, the suits and leather shoes and floral dresses everywhere, those scenes that only exist in books haunt him.
Finally, Lin Juemin made up his mind to go abroad and go to Japan on the other side of the sea to study.
This trip to the East will lead Lim to meet the person who truly changed his life, and it will be a turning point in his life.
Defeated heroes
In 1907, Lin Juemin bid farewell to his wife and went to Japan to study at his own expense, and by chance entered Keio University in Japan as an official student to study philosophy, studying German and English at the same time, determined to bring more advanced Western ideas back to China.
During the same period, Sun Yat-sen and other revolutionaries lived in Japan and plotted the anti-Qing revolution.
Lin Juemin, who also had the idea of revolutionary salvation, often came into contact with revolutionaries and actively participated in rallies, and he admired the demeanor of Sun Yat-sen, Huang Xing and others.
Soon after, Lin Juemin joined the China League and became the mainstay of the Fujian branch.
On November 13, 1910, Sun Yat-sen summoned Huang Xing and other members of the League to hold a secret meeting in Penang, and they decided that the time had come to launch a large-scale uprising in Guangzhou to overthrow the Qing government's rule in the Lingnan region.
As soon as the uprising plan was finalized, it immediately received an enthusiastic response from Lin Juemin and other international students.
Since the domestic arms trade was closely monitored by the Qing government, in order to prevent the plan from leaking out, Lin Juemin, together with Wu Yuzhang and others, was responsible for the arduous task of procuring arms from Japan and transporting them back to China.
In the spring of 1911, Huang Xing wrote a letter to Lin Juemin, saying that "there is a lot to be done", and informing Lin Juemin and other members of the League who were still in Japan to return to China to participate in the uprising.
After receiving the letter, Lin Juemin was so excited that he couldn't sleep at night, and on March 3, he returned to China by boat to continue the preparatory work for the uprising in Hong Kong.
By the end of March, when everything was ready, Lin Juemin took the time to go back to his hometown in Fujian and met his father and wife, whom he had not seen for a long time.
Facing his father's gorgeous hair and his wife's adoring gaze, Lin Juemin's heart was tormented, and many times he almost told them the true purpose of his return, but he couldn't bear to say it.
Lin Juemin knew that this might be the last time he spent with his family, and he tried to cherish the last moments, but as the days passed, he feared that such peaceful and joyful days would shake his resolve to participate in the uprising.
Until the day he parted with his family, Lin Juemin still didn't say anything, he fled from this warm and warm home as if he was fleeing, and completely threw himself into the torrent of the times.
On April 8, the Coordination Department in Hong Kong held a meeting and decided to attack in ten directions with 800 death squads on the day of the uprising, occupy the important administrative organs of the Qing government in Guangzhou, and at the same time coordinate with the new army to completely control the whole of Guangzhou as soon as possible.
But it backfired, on the day of April 8, Wen Shengcai's assassination of Fu Qi occurred in Guangzhou, and the Governor's Office was terrified and immediately ordered the arrest of the revolutionaries.
Wen Sheng Sai
In order to avoid the limelight, the date of the uprising had to be changed from time to time, and finally set for April 27, 1911.
On the night of 23 April, Lin Juemin and others secretly entered Guangzhou and met with comrades-in-arms who had come all the way from Japan.
In the early morning of April 24, in the silence, Lin Juemin picked up the lamp and waved his pen, and wrote three desperate letters in one breath: "Letter to Father", "Letter to Father" and "Letter to Wife".
After putting down the pen and stopping the ink, Lin Juemin looked at the bright moon hanging under the eaves outside the window, and silently calmed the agitation in his heart.
Since deciding to participate in the uprising, Lin Juemin has never been as calm as he is now, because he has put all the unfinished matters into the pen and ink in front of him.
Lin Juemin knew that he would die nine times a lifetime, but he had already put life and death aside, in order to revive the country and awaken his compatriots, although he still did not regret nine deaths.
If you don't go back, you won't go back.
After dawn, Lin Juemin handed over the three letters of despair to his friends, and asked him to pass them on to his family if he unfortunately died.
On April 27, 1911, this fateful day finally arrived.
At 5:30 p.m., 130 death squad members, including Lin Juemin, set out from Xiaodongying under the leadership of Huang Xing and rushed straight to the governor's office, exchanging fire with government guards along the way, and won the battle.
By the time of the Governor's Office, Zhang Mingqi, the governor of Liangguang, and other Qing court officials had already fled, and at the same time, Li Zhun, the commander of the Guangdong Navy, sent his guards to besiege the revolutionaries at the left and right gates.
In the fierce street fighting, the revolutionaries suffered heavy losses, Huang Xing led the team to break through in all directions, and Lin Juemin was unfortunately captured after several bullets fell in a pool of blood.
In the prison of the Qing government, Lin Juemin resisted with hunger strike, remained unmoved in the face of cruel punishment, still loudly preached revolutionary ideas in the courtroom, and finally calmly went to the execution ground, and died calmly to end his meteor-like short but glorious life.
A piece of paper "Letter with Wife"
When the news of the Guangzhou Uprising reached Fujian, Lin Juemin's desperate letter was also sent to Chen Yiying.
The sad news of her husband's death had already brought the young widow to tears, and this thousand-word "Letter to His Wife" made her even more grief-stricken.
Lin Juemin, who has always been serious and calm, changed his usual in the suicide note, and confessed to Chen Yiying in a very bold and romantic tone: "I love you so much, that is, I love you a thought, so that I have the courage to die." Since I met you, I have always hoped that there will be lovers in the world who will eventually become married. ”
Rao is that he loves his wife so deeply, but the desolate scene of "clouds everywhere and wolf dogs on the streets" makes him unwilling to steal peace, so he can only "sacrifice the welfare of my body and your body to seek eternal happiness for the people of the world." ”
The 24-year-old Lin Juemin bravely took the lead, leaving behind an old father, a young wife, an eldest son and an unborn child.
Two years later, in 1913, Chen Yiying died young due to depression, and two years later, the eldest son Lin Yixin, who was only 9 years old, died tragically.
Fortunately, the widowed son Lin Zhongxin grew up healthily under the nurturing of his grandparents, leaving a spark for Lin Juemin's lineage.
When Lin Zhongxin grew up, he devoted himself to the construction of New China, and later became the deputy director of the Food Bureau of Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province, and finally enjoyed his old age.
Lin Zhongxin has two sons and two daughters, and the descendants of the Lin family are all low-key people, rarely showing up, and they can be regarded as adhering to the fine family style of their ancestors.
If it is in the peaceful and prosperous era where the road is not left behind, Lin Juemin is definitely a warm husband and a filial son, but in troubled times, when the entire Chinese nation is shackled, how can Lin Juemin, a suave hero like Lin Juemin, bear to be alone?
The Hungarian poet Pedorfi once said: "Life is precious, but love is even more valuable." If it is free, both can be thrown. ”
Lin Juemin interpreted this famous quote with his life, and his unity of knowledge and action made him an example for centuries.
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