In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, the feudal system gradually declined, and people of insight began to change the law and seek the road to a rich country and a strong people, and Tan Sitong was an important representative of it.
Once the change of law failed, Tan Sitong was executed, and before his death, his wife Li Yan regretted that the two had not been able to leave offspring, but Tan Sitong replied: There is nothing better than there, which makes his wife cry.
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In the 1890s, with the support of the emperor, people of insight in the Qing Dynasty carried out the restoration and reform of the law, and Tan Sitong, as the backbone of it, made great contributions to the reform.
Unfortunately, the reform was strongly obstructed by the diehards led by Empress Dowager Cixi, and the change lasted only a hundred days before the curtain came to an end, and Tan Sitong also died under the blade of the Qing government.
In the eyes of many people, Tan Sitong is too conformist, just as the so-called stay in the green mountains, not afraid of no firewood, he originally had several opportunities to escape, but finally failed.
On September 21, 1898, Empress Dowager Cixi led her men in a coup d'état, scolding the Guangxu Emperor and placing him under house arrest.
At the same time, Empress Dowager Cixi ordered the city gates of Beijing to be closed, and 3,000 people were sent to search the city for the restorationists, and ordered the arrest of Tan Sitong, Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao, and other important law-changing figures.
Liang Qichao fled to the Japanese embassy in order to protect himself. With the help of the Japanese, Tan Sitong successfully rescued Kang Youwei.
When the whole city's restoration faction fled, only Tan Si and the same person tried to rescue the Guangxu Emperor and try to save the failed outcome of the change.
When Liang Qichao decided to flee to Japan, he once informed Tan Sitong of his idea. Tan Sitong said: "All countries have won victories through bloodshed, and China has not shed blood for the restoration, which is probably the reason for our failure." ”
Tan Sitong was not stupid, but with the attitude of sacrificing his life to become a benevolent person, he dedicated himself to the revolution. Empress Dowager Cixi was furious, and as soon as the arrest warrant was issued, Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao, and others had already left China and fled overseas.
Family members have advised Tan Sitong to leave, but Tan Sitong believes that since the change of law has not awakened the wisdom of the people, he will use his own blood to warn the world.
Because of this, Tan Sitong calmly faced the arrest of the Qing government and had no fear of death. After Tan Sitong was arrested and imprisoned, people of insight in the government united to help Tan Sitong escape from prison.
After communicating with Tan Sitong, the crowd was severely refused. Tan Sitong chose to die for his ambition, "With the life of one person, awaken 400 million people, life is enough." ”
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Before rushing to the execution ground, Tan Sitong's wife Li Yan worked hard to finally buy off the jailer and meet Tan Sitong for the last time.
At that time, Tan Sitong was already skinny, he was dragging long braids, his body was covered in blood, his clothes were tattered, but his eyes were still full of determination. Seeing Tan Si's appearance like this, his wife Li Yan couldn't help but shed tears.
When Tan Sitong was executed, his wife Li Yan still strongly discouraged him, hoping that he would accept the assistance of the knights, escape from the day of birth, and start a new life for the two of them.
Tan Sitong rejected the advice of his wife Li Yan and expressed his determination to die.
His wife, Li Yan, cried out because she was not pregnant, saying, "The Tan family has no offspring, and we have no children." ”
In fact, when Guangxu was 15 years old, Li Yan once gave birth to a child. However, the child was less than one year old and fell seriously ill and died prematurely. In the following years, Tan Sitong and Li Yan never had any children again, and this incident also became a regret of the two people's lives.
Tan Sitong will die, the Tan family incense can not continue, wife Li Yan a female Taoist family, how can they survive?
Looking at Li Yan, who was in tears, Tan Sitong comforted: "In today's country, one more child will have one more slave. ”
Tan Sitong believes that before the real state is established, even if a child is born in the world, it is still a kind of suffering. As he put it: "If a child is born but does not see the light of the world, it is better not to come." ”
Soon after, Tan Sitong was escorted to the execution ground. In 1898, the 33-year-old Tan Sitong was executed along with Lin Xu, Yang Shenxiu, Liu Guangdi, Yang Rui, and Kang Guangren at a wet market outside Xuanwu Gate in Beijing.
Before dying, the six gentlemen of Wushu shouted loudly, unfortunately, even though they gave their lives, they still could not awaken the late Qing society that was already terminally ill.
At the time of the execution, the audience was full of people, who did not even know who the people standing on the stage were and why they died. It was not until the second year after his death that Tan Sitong's body was transported back to Liuyang, Hunan.
Later, Li Yan saw the farewell book that Tan Si had written for her. Tan Sitong said, "When you read this letter, I have become a ghost, dead and alive, and I will repeat what I say." ”
Tan Si has been with his wife for 15 years, but now he has to be separated by yin and yang, which is a pity. Tan Sitong also made a wish that if they could be reunited in the next life, he hoped that the husband and wife could reunite again and share the joy of heaven.
At the same time, Tan Sitong also mentioned in the letter that he and his deceased children were blessed by Li Yan in the Western paradise world and also waited for Li Yan.
Li Yan had not been able to come out for many years, and everyone advised Tan Si to take concubines, but Tan Si and tan si all sternly refused. Without children, this is the knot that Li Yan can't let go of in his life, and in the last moments of his life, Tan Sitong also comforted Li Yan in his own way.
After Tan Sitong's death, Li Yan washed her face with tears all day long, and she wrote a mourning poem for Tan Sitong: "The bleak and deep sorrow of the night is eternal, and the undead are sad in front of the lamp!" ”
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Regarding the ending of Li Yan, there are two folk sayings:
1. After Tan Sitong left, Li Yan prayed day and night, hoping that the husband and wife could be reunited.
However, only a hundred days later, Li Yan heard the news of the bleeding of Wu Shu, when she was accompanying her father to return to the south, she heard about this and cried her heart and lungs.
Suddenly, Li Yan came out of the cabin, came to the bow of the ship, and jumped into the Xiangshui River. Li Yan's father was horrified and ordered his men to rescue Li Yan, and Li Yan barely managed to save his life.
After waking up, Li Yan took a palanquin to Changsha to inspect Yamen and ask for help. At that time, the governor of Changsha was Chen Baozhen, who advocated changing the law.
Seeing Li Yan, Chen Baozhen hurriedly welcomed her into the room. Chen Baozhen was trying to comfort Li Yan when he saw Li Yan fall to the ground, his face in pain, and he cried.
Later, Li Yan said to Chen Baozhen: "Before, I plotted how to rescue Tan Sitong, but now it seems impossible. Now I ask the court to arrest me and punish me, only in this way can I meet Tan Si in Huangquan. ”
As soon as the words stopped, Li Yan took out a dagger with a cold light from his sleeve and stabbed it into his neck. Blood flowed and instantly splattered onto Chen Baozhen's body.
The people in the gate were very surprised and hurriedly called the doctor over to bandage Li Yan's wound. Subsequently, the crowd carefully escorted Li Yan back to tan mansion.
The next morning, people heard Li Yan's moaning, and the people were very panicked and hurriedly pushed the door in. Originally, Li Yan kept asking, "On the execution ground, who is Li Yan's supervisor?" ”
The Tan family and the Li family went through several rounds of trouble, and finally got the news of the supervisor. The pale-faced Li Yanqiang propped himself up, raised his head, grabbed the edge of the bed with both hands, and used all his strength to shout the name of the beheading officer over and over again.
Soon after, the wound on Li Yan's neck was cracked, and the blood flowed directly, and he died of exhaustion.
At this time, it was only a month before Tan Si was heroic and righteous in Beijing. When Li Yan was buried, people found that her hands were tightly clasped, and she could not be separated by the efforts of others.
Li Yan's teeth had been crushed, and the blood between his neck had flowed to the position of his chest, condensing into a bowl of mouth-sized knife characters.
2. After Tan Sitong's death, his wife did not remarry, in order to commemorate Tan Sitong, she called herself a birth, but she had to wait for Dugan when she died. Although Li Yan was still alive, his heart was already dead.
After Tan Sitong died, Li Yan moved out of the original house of the two people.
Li Yan's life is too bumpy. He loses his mother at the age of three, his son in his youth, and his husband in middle age. Although Tan Sitong's eldest brother later passed on his son to Li Yan, because his nephew died early, Li Yan took on the responsibility of raising two grandchildren alone, and the elderly under great pressure.
After Tan Sitong's heroic righteousness, the Tan family's situation declined, and Li Yan also endured the cold words of others.
Later, Li Yan converted the house facing the street into an inn and barely made ends meet. Despite his grief over Tan Sitong's departure, Li Yan bravely faced life.
She built the Tan Si Tong Martyrs' Shrine to promote Tan Si Tong's ideas. At the same time, in the case of poor living, he also donated his family property, ran around calling for signs, and raised funds to run schools.
In 1902, at the suggestion of Li Yan, Liuyang Provincial Normal School was established, which was the predecessor of Hunan Normal University. Soon after, Liuyang Girls' School was established, and Li Yan became the principal of Liuyang Girls' School, teaching girls to read and encourage them to love and marry freely.
At the same time, Li Yan also serves as the director of the Women's Institute's advocacy office, dedicated to solving problems for women. After the Xinhai Revolution, Li Yan inherited Tan Sitong's will and worked hard to create a new China.
Li Yan, like Tan Si, is a devout Buddhist. As a talented woman, Li Yan also liked to write books, and her "Biography of Martyrs in Past Dynasties" was of great significance to enlightening the people's wisdom and promoting equality between men and women at that time.
In 1925, on the occasion of Li Yan's sixtieth birthday, Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao presented her with a plaque that read: "The Scarf Is Finished."
Unfortunately, soon after, Li Yan died of illness at the age of 60. After 28 years, Li Yan finally fulfilled his long-cherished wish to be reunited with her husband and children in heaven.
In 1898, when Tan Sitong died generously, the protagonists of the story were Tan Sitong and Li Yan. Two people with the same strong personality, one insists on dying for the faith, and the other knows that there are all kinds of pain in his heart, but still firmly supports her husband's faith.
From ancient times to the present, the stubbornness in the bones of Chinese people of insight has never disappeared...