Qiu Jin can be said to be one of the most famous women in modern China, an advocate of Chinese feminist and feminist ideas, and the first revolutionary pioneer to sacrifice to overthrow feudal rule.
Qiu Jin was born into a large feudal family, and his father Qiu Xinhou served as the general office of supervision and sales in Xiangxiang County. Qiu Jin was beautiful and dignified, intelligent and lovely, and her father found a husband for her to be an official, so in 1896, Qiu Jin married Wang Tingjun in Heye Town, Shuangfeng County.
After marriage, Qiu Jin met Tang Qunying and Ge Jianhao at her in-laws' house, and the three of them were very close and talked very happily. They often get together to drink and write poetry, or talk about the moon playing the piano and playing chess, and the exchange is very close. Later, the world called them "Xiaoxiang Three Female Jie".
However, Qiu Jin's revolutionary ideals and ambitions were not supported by her husband, who was dressed in fine clothes and food, and was idle and entertaining every day, which was very different from Qiu Jin's hobbies. So in April 1904, Qiu Jin traveled to Japan alone, organized the "Common Love Association" in Japan, and participated in the anti-Qing secret group "Three Youth Associations", and also met a group of like-minded progressive youth. She met Xu Xilin, Chen Tianhua and other outstanding international students, and agreed to join the League, at that time, the League was an illegal organization, and those who joined were ready to be killed, but Qiu Jin was not afraid, which coincided with her revolutionary ambitions, and she gladly joined.
After living in Japan for several years, Qiu Jin realized that Oriental women were being severely oppressed and treated as weak, so she stood on the side of feminism and justice for women's independence. She even led by example, writing a letter to her eldest brother Qiu Yuzhang, expressing her desire to divorce Wang Tingjun.
In 1907, Qiu Jin returned from Japan, contacted the Guangfuhui and Hongjianghui, and planned the Pingli Uprising. Qiu Jin's most shocking move in Beijing was her "going to the opera garden" incident, when the etiquette law stipulated that women at home could only listen to "hall meetings" at home, and could not show their faces to visit the theater garden, and the theater garden would not sell tickets for "Kunke". However, Qiu Jin took a four-wheeled carriage to the opera garden to listen to the play, which set a precedent for upper-class women to enter the theater garden.
In July of the same year, Xu Xilin impulsively revolted, was arrested for failing to make a detailed plan and was brutally dissected. Hearing the news of Xu Xilin's death, Qiu Jin refused all advice to leave Shaoxing and resolutely stayed at the Datong Academy. On the afternoon of the 14th, the Qing army surrounded the Datong Academy, and Qiu Jin was arrested.
After her arrest, Qiu Jin suffered a harsh punishment, and the Qing army forced her to write down a list of all those involved in the uprising, and she gritted her teeth and wrote only a "Qiu" character on the paper, indicating that only Qiu Jin was alone. After pondering for a moment, he then wrote: "Autumn wind and autumn rain are sad." In the early morning of the next day, Qiu Jin was beheaded at the street market entrance of Shaoxing.
After Qiu Jin's death, in view of her special status, no one dared to collect her body. In the end, her friends Lü Bicheng and Wu Zhiying managed to smuggle her body out for burial.
Jian Hu Heroine finally sacrificed for the great righteousness of the nation, and she finally realized the revolutionary ideals and aspirations she had been pursuing. On February 12, 1912, the Qing government issued an abdication edict, and the Xinhai Revolution was declared a success. Although Qiu Jin could not see the day of victory with her own eyes, she would be relieved that the feudal system was finally overthrown.