China is a big country, as one of the four ancient civilizations, China's history has developed for thousands of years, although the wheel of history ruthlessly crushes all traces, but each generation will have heroes who fight for the nation, so that as a descendant of us unforgettable!
Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing, the closest dynasty to the present is the Qing Dynasty, which was the last unified dynasty in feudal society, founded by Nurhaci, until the last emperor, Puyi abdicated, the Qing Dynasty lasted for 296 years. During this period, the Qing Dynasty also experienced many reform events, such as the Western Affairs Movement, the Penghu Reform Law, and so on.
Throughout China's 5,000-year history, whenever the country is in difficulty, many heroes will stand up to save the people who are in deep trouble. And Tan Sitong is such a hero who is unknown, but he stepped forward when the country was in trouble!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="8" > the six gentlemen of pentagram</h1>
During the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, the country was on the verge of death, and in order to save this country full of holes and internal and external troubles, the Guangxu Emperor decided to emulate the West and promote the development of science and culture, and under the inspiration of Liang Qichao, he carried out the policy of changing the law.
Then, after twenty-four years of Guangxu, the feudal faction that resolutely opposed the Wushu reform method launched a strong counterattack, led by Empress Dowager Cixi, put the Guangxu Emperor under house arrest, and wantonly killed the six leaders of the Wushu reform law, and finally the Wushu reform method ended in failure.
The most admirable of the six gentlemen is Tan Sitong, who is not only taking the initiative to go to prison and reminding the world with his life, but also leaving that shocking famous sentence in prison: "I smile from the horizontal knife to the sky, and leave the liver and gallbladder for two kunluns!" And Empress Dowager Cixi also ordered him to be cut with a blunt knife, and it took a full twenty or thirty knives before he lost his breath.
Just before the execution, his wife cried out loudly: We haven't had any offspring yet, I haven't had a child for you yet!" And Tan Sitong's answer will make people admire whether they know this history at that time, today, or in the future!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="45" > Tan Sitong's experience</h1>
Tan Sitong was born in the family of officials and eunuchs, and it can be said that the family conditions are relatively superior. Since childhood, he not only received a good education, but also regarded as a good food and did not suffer hardships, but Tan Sitong was well aware of the great righteousness of the nation. At the age of 10, Tan Sitong studied under the famous scholar Ouyang Zhonghu, and under the influence of the teacher, he was interested in the people of the world since childhood, and he also had patriotic feelings beyond ordinary people.
When he was young, Tan Sitong had a rich experience in studying, first visiting a number of teachers, learning the long history of China, and also coming into contact with the natural sciences that were not advocated at that time, and then Tan Sitong resolutely decided to learn from the ancients, read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles, and began his own path of study in all directions.
He traveled to most of China, made friends with many famous scholars, and in the teachings of famous scholars, he further learned the strategies of helping the people from childhood. Adhering to Wang Fuzhi's democratic thought and the increasingly yearning Western science, he deepened his inner dissatisfaction and disgust with the political and legal conditions of today's society.
The 18-year-old Tan Sitong was married, and his wife was also born in a family of official eunuchs, which was originally a marriage of the parents' fate, Tan Sitong was not very yearning, but obeyed the orders of his parents. However, after marriage, his view of his wife Li Yan has changed greatly.
This change is because the wife actually advocates new ideas and also has patriotic feelings, which is very similar to Tan Sitong! The two of them were not only husband and wife, but also became confidants without saying anything. They often analyze the country's current dark and corrupt policies, and sometimes discuss methods of innovation together.
During this period, they spent time together day and night, Li Yan accompanied Tan Sitong all the time, and they soon had children of their own. But unfortunately, the child died prematurely, and Li Yan also got a disease that could no longer have children.
In 1895, with the signing of the "Maguan Treaty" between China and Japan, Tan Sitong's dissatisfaction with the Qing Government finally broke out, and at this time, at the age of 30, he began to organize a society, advocating new learning, collective research, and calling for changes in the law. At this time, Kang Youwei had organized more than a thousand people to petition the Qing government to change the law. Tan Sitong saw that this was the materialistic thought he had always longed for.
The following year, Tan Sitong quickly entered Beijing and became acquainted with Liang Qichao, Kang Youwei and others. These are not unfamiliar in today's high school textbooks, and immediately several people founded the Restoration School, and Tan Sitong also became the backbone of them, that is, the later Six Gentlemen of Wushu.
The Restoration faction mainly propagated the reform of the law and cracked down on corrections, and the Southern Society founded by Tan Sitong himself also became the most radical branch of the Restoration Movement. It was not until 1898 that the Guangxu Emperor finally decided to adopt the opinion, decided to change the law, and issued the famous "Dingguo is the Edict", and appointed Tan Si and others to participate in the change.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="46" > pentagram failed</h1>
Just when the change of law was in full swing and the country was showing signs of resurrection from the dead, the situation still happened unsatisfactory accidents. When Guangxu implemented the New Deal for more than 100 days, who expected that the feudal faction headed by Empress Dowager Cixi had already made preparations, and when Guangxu went to the military parade, it launched a mutiny, extinguished everyone's New Deal dream in one fell swoop, and began to arrest the restoration faction headed by six people!
At this time, Tan Sitong did not sit still, but also wanted to save the new policy, secretly contacted Yuan Shikai to lead troops to counterattack, who expected to be betrayed by Yuan Shikai, was leaked, and tan Sitong was powerless to return to heaven. Empress Dowager Cixi ordered the arrest of the Restoration faction, and finally the six gentlemen of Wushu were arrested one after another.
At this time, Tan Sitong had already seen the power of the feudal faction, and knew that the change of law was already facing failure. Tan Sitong persuaded Kang Youwei and others to leave the capital and return to the south, preserving a glimmer of hope for the reformists. And I chose to die! Decided to use his life to make one last rebellion against the feudal faction, and to prove the new law with his own life!
Tan Sitong took the initiative to go to prison and wanted to use himself to warn the people. In prison, Tan Sitong wrote that his stay was as great as the escape of Kang Youwei and others. At that time, many people went to save him, but with such a belief, he was determined to remind the world with his life and resolutely die, which was a shameful courage!
Empress Dowager Cixi decided to execute Tan Sitong with a blunt knife, and when she was executed, she slashed twenty or thirty knives, and Tan Sitong died completely, and the wife watched her husband's execution, and the tears of heartbreak next to her.
She said to her husband guiltily, she has not been able to leave you a queen, this is a regret of a lifetime, I am ashamed of you. Tan Sitong still had a calm face on the execution table, and said softly to his wife: First there is a country and then a home, when the country is already corrupt and there are problems, isn't the child still suffering when he comes to this world?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="47" > summary</h1>
Whether it is Tan Sitong's fearlessness in the face of death, the feat of resolutely using his life to warn the world, or the words to his wife that the country has become corrupt and has no light and future. It still reverberates in everyone's psyche. A hero who dedicates himself to the great righteousness of the nation! respectable
There is also the poem that Tan Sitong left for posterity in the prison where he was imprisoned: "I smile at the sky with a horizontal knife, and go to keep the liver and gallbladder for two Kunlun!" ”。 Tan Sitong was only 33 years old when he died, and his short life was used to dedicate himself to the great national righteousness, even if the poems left behind until his death were also inspiring future generations.
Although this history is very close to us, we remember the martyrs, we remember with great memories, we remember every hero, it is their dedication, they fought for the light of the country with their flesh and blood, and we have a comfortable life today.