"All countries that change the law are made up of bloodshed, and today China has not heard of anyone who has shed blood for changing the law, so this country is not prosperous." If so, please start with the same heir. ”
Thirty-three years of life, Tan Sitong has re-endowed China with the personality of the missing millennium.
In the Spring and Autumn Period more than 2,000 years ago, there were countless righteous men with great personalities, Gongsun Pestle in the orphans of the Zhao clan, Tian Guang in Jing Ke's thorn in Qin, and Hou Ying in the theft of charms to save Zhao, all of whom could not die, but in the end they chose to sacrifice themselves and achieve others. This great personality has been rare since the Warring States period, until the end of the Qing Dynasty, when there were no major changes in three thousand years.
Tan Sitong can also not die, he can leave calmly like Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao, go away from home, and plot again, but he still chooses death, his death is far greater than Gongsun Jiuusu and Hou Ying, and what he saves is not a character, a family, but the thought of the entire people.
From Shiyi to The Movement of Foreign Affairs, from Wei Yuan to Zeng Guofan, from Li Hongzhang to Kang Youwei, in the short half century of history at the end of the Qing Dynasty, China began to undergo a series of changes from artifacts to ideas, until the Restoration Movement.
The restoration movement is a challenge and subversion of China's two-thousand-year system, its failure declares that the country cannot get on the right track through reform, and Tan Sitong's choice of death is precisely to tell more people that if they want to save this country, reform is undesirable, escape is even more undesirable, and truly patriotic people, whether radicals or moderates, should not take personal honor and disgrace and safety as a bet, and if they want to change this country, sacrifice is inevitable.
"Swear to kill the monarchs of the world, to shed their blood all over the earth, in order to vent the hatred of all the people."
This is a famous saying circulated during the French Revolution, which was included by Tan Sitong in his work "Renxue" for recitation.
The ideological realm of "Renxue" still makes people's blood boil when reading it to this day, and it depicts the political shortcomings of ancient China in great detail, and it is a rare book of ideological consciousness.
It can be seen from the Renxue that Tan Sitong was by no means a reformist party, on the contrary, he should be a radical revolutionary party.
In his early years, Tan Sitong, who traveled as much as 80,000 kilometers, saw all the changes in life, social changes and jianghu benevolence, and a noble teenager with a noble birth turned into an anti-Qing fighter and a radical ideology.
As early as before the Restoration Movement, Tan Sitong had already begun to form his own small group in the Two Lakes region, actively carrying out the ideological enlightenment movement, taking the anti-Qing as the foundation, in which he got to know Tang Caichang, Bi Yongnian and others.
After the rise of the Wushu Reform Law, Tan Sitong was invited to Beijing by Kang Youwei and others, and because he still had a slight idea of the Guangxu Emperor's constitution, Tan Sitong resolutely went north to participate in the Restoration Movement, and the group he had previously formed in the Two Lakes region was handed over to his friend Tang Caichang.
Unfortunately, the Guangxu Emperor had a heart to do it, but the opposition forces in the imperial court were extremely strong, and Tan Sitong saw through the inability of the Restoration Movement to lead China to prosperity and strength, and he lost his last illusion.
However, when Kang Youwei planned the campaign after the siege of the garden, Tan Sitong still went to find Yuan Shikai, and after getting Yuan Shikai's false righteousness, he left, and then waited at home for his killers.
Will a revolutionary fighter who has traveled the rivers and lakes for more than ten years and seen various characters conspire against each other believe the promise of a small warlord?
Why would a person who was full of hatred for the Qing court, advocated not being foolish, and advocated freedom, equality, and independence of personality do such a thing that he knew could not do?
"There is no one who can do it for the future, and there is no one who has no way to rise up without the dead."
This is Tan Sitong's idea, to awaken the awakening of a region with the death of one person, to exchange the blood of one person for the revolutionary struggle that has been carried forward and successively, and to completely abandon the illusion of the Qing court.
In the Chinese revolution, the Two Lakes were the first, and the Hunan Revolution was the first.
After Tan Sitong's death, his good friend Tang Cai, a native of Liuyang, Hunan, the former leader of the restoration faction, often became indignant and "made great festivals, advocated great difficulties, and carried out great reforms", formed a self-reliant army, abandoned the illusion of reforming the Qing court, and turned to revolution, and was brutally killed when he launched an uprising in Hankou.
His good friend, Bi Yongnian, a former member of the Restoration Faction from Changsha, Hunan Province, traveled east to Japan to meet Sun Yat-sen and became a member of the revolutionary party completely.
His student, Lin Gui, a native of Changsha, Hunan, who swore that "China's bloodshed began with Tan Jun, and I inherited it later," was sacrificed in the Hankou Uprising.
Tan Sitong influenced countless people with his own death, such as Cai Yi, Chen Tianhua, Zou Rong, Lin Juemin, etc., and these revolutionaries who came forward and followed continued to practice Tan Sitong's oath to overthrow the Qing court.