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Do you really know Tan Si Tong? What is the significance of Tan Sitong's sacrifice for China's development? The painter today takes you to know the next Tan Si Tong in depth!
Tan Sitong, zi fusheng, trumpet Zhuangfei, a native of Liuyang County, Changsha Province, Hunan Province, born in Shuntianfu, is a famous politician, thinker, and reformist figure in modern China.
In 1870, Tan Sitong was just five years old, but he was seriously ill, and the doctors had issued ultimatums, and as a result, Tan Sitong came back to life without warning after three days of passing out, hence the name "resurrection". In 1875, when Tan Sitong was 10 years old, he had the honor of studying with the famous scholar Ouyang Zhonghu of Liuyang. With the guidance of famous teachers, Tan Sitong's talent was soon revealed. He was very disgusted with the traditional Eight Strands of Literature, wrote the words "Why is this reasonable" in the textbook, and left the school directly. After that, Tan Sitong began to travel the world and make good friends, at this time Tan Sitong began to have his own understanding of patriotism after studying Wang Fuzhi; Tan Sitong once admired those grassy heroes who hoeed strong and weak, and once befriended a "righteous hero" big knife king wu in Beijing at that time.
On April 17, 1895, China and Japan signed the Treaty of Maguan, when Tan Sitong heard about it, he was full of sorrow and anger, and tried to advocate new learning and call for a change of law.
In 1896, Tan Sitong became acquainted with Liang Qichao and others, after which the Guangxu Emperor summoned the Restoration Faction to discuss the change of law. The Guangxu Emperor's determination to change the law also infected Tan Si and others. But everyone knew very well that the actual ruler of the Qing Dynasty at that time was Empress Dowager Cixi, and Cixi hated these people in her heart.
In September 1898, Cixi took advantage of Guangxu's military parade in Tianjin to directly launch a mutiny and imprison the Guangxu Emperor, depose him, and extinguish the New Deal in one fell swoop. After that, Tan Si secretly met with Yuan Shikai, hoping that he could bring troops into Beijing and kill the diehards. As a result, Yuan Shikai falsely agreed on the one hand, and directly reported to the diehard Rong Lu on the other hand.
After that, Empress Dowager Cixi began to arrest the Restoration faction everywhere, and Tan Sitong, who heard the news, not only did not panic, but also went around planning to rescue the Guangxu Emperor. However, Tan Si and his people had no real power, and after many activities were fruitless, Tan Sitong decided to use his death to martyr the cause of the law and use his own sacrifice to make a final rebellion against the feudal stubborn forces. He told those who persuaded him to leave: "All countries have changed the law from bloodshed, and today China has not heard of anyone who bleeds because of the change of law, and the reason why this country is not prosperous." Yes, please start from the same place; and left the fatal poem: Throwing a European knife in the hand and laughing at the sky, leaving the public crime to be discussed later, and then being revised by Liang Qichao: I laughed from the horizontal knife to the sky, to leave the liver and gallbladder for two kunluns.
After Kang Youwei and the others escaped overnight, Tan Sitong was arrested at the Liuyang Guild Hall, and on September 28, Tan Sitong, Lin Xu, Yang Shenxiu, Liu Guangdi, Yang Rui, Kang Guangren, and six people bravely rebelled in the vegetable market outside Xuanwu Gate in Beijing, known in history as the "Six Gentlemen of Wushu". When the six people were escorted to the execution ground, a group of indignant people along the way were throwing rotten eggs and vegetable leaves at him, and the local people and bureaucrats regarded the six of them as a chaotic party, and Tan Sitong's heart may be a little sad, so he shouted out the shocking sigh, "I have the heart to kill thieves, and I am powerless to return to heaven." Die where you want, hurry! Hurry! ”
Although the Wushu Reform Law failed, Tan Sitong was willing to sacrifice himself to the New Deal, and at the same time, this move also set up an immortal monument for future generations to be admired by future generations forever.
In addition, although Tan Sitong failed to change the law, in fact his ideas still made great contributions to the cause of China's revolution; Tan Sitong founded the Changsha Shiwu Academy in Changsha in his early years, and this academy had two very good students: Cai Yi and Yang Changji.
Cai Yi: Cai Yi was the youngest student of the academy, he enrolled at the age of sixteen, Cai Yi had made very great contributions to the cause of the Chinese revolution, one was to lead the new army uprising in Yunnan; the other was to oppose Yuan Shikai's claim that the emperor launched the patriotic army uprising, and of course, Cai Yi had a subordinate who was also a teacher and friend, and eventually became one of the founding leaders of the People's Republic of China.
Yang Changji: Of course, Yang Changji did not have the dazzling merits of Cai Yi, but Yang Changji founded a school of music himself, and there was a student with a Hunan accent who was deeply loved by him, and eventually he married his daughter to this student. Of course, this student is even more well-known in New China.
Do any of you officials know who this subordinate of General Cai Yi and the son-in-law of Mr. Yang Changji are?