Chapter 8 See the big from the small

Peking University’s movement against charging fees for lecture materials[2], like a flame of Glauber’s salt, extinguished like a flame, during which time a student, Feng Shengsan, was expelled. This is very strange, the ups and downs of a turmoil are only related to one person.If so, how much courage is in one man, and how little courage in many. Now that the lecture fee has been cancelled, the students have won the victory, but no one has heard blessings for the victims who made this sacrifice. Seeing the big from the small, I realized something that has been puzzling for a long time, that is: in the garden of Sanbeizi, there is the grave of the four martyrs who murdered Liangbi and Yuan Shikai [3], and there are three tombstones in it. In the eleventh year of the Republic of China, no one carved a single character.

After a sacrifice has shed blood at the altar, the only thing left to everyone is "scattering" [4]. November eighteenth. KK [1] This article was originally published in the "Morning News Supplement" on November 18, 1922. 〔2〕Peking University's Opposition to Fees for Lectures In October 1922, some students of Peking University opposed the school's collection of lecture fees, and a wave broke out.The school council decided to expel student Feng Shengsanyi.In fact, Feng Shengsan only participated temporarily after the trend broke out, not the real host.According to Feng Shengsan, a native of Shandong, a student in the French class of the preparatory course of Peking University at that time. [3] The Tomb of the Four Martyrs On January 16, 1912, three revolutionaries Yang Yuchang, Zhang Xianpei, and Huang Zhimeng bombed Yuan Shikai, but were killed; on January 26 of the same year, Peng Jiazhen bombed the Imperial Guards of the Qing Dynasty The coordinator and training minister, Liang Bi, died after his success.Later, the government of the Republic of China buried them together in Beijing Sanbeizi Garden (the former site is in today's Beijing Zoo), called the Tomb of the Four Martyrs.

〔4〕 "San Xun" refers to distributing the meat used in the sacrificial ceremony after the sacrifice in the old days.