Chapter 99 Faith-Zhang Taiyan said: After my death, Chinese culture will perish!

Zhang Taiyan said: After I die, Chinese culture will die! Lin Zexu was exiled, and before leaving, he handed over to Wei Yuan all the translations of "Sizhou Zhi", "Macao Daily", "Guangdong Zou Gao" and Western gunboat models.Wei persuaded Lin Baozhong with the words of Guanshan Luyuan. Lin said: "Those who start well don't have to end well. If there is nothing unexpected, then Xu will be powerless in this life. It is just a clear discussion. Brother Yu entrusted him with writing a book. I hope that my brother will do it deliberately, so that the subjects of the Qing Dynasty will open their wisdom early, otherwise they will be invincible!"

Zeng Guofan believed that Hong Xiuquan's Taiping Heavenly Kingdom worshiped God, not only his enemy, but also the enemy of the whole nation.He scolded Hong Xiuquan most fiercely in the "Words against Thieves": "Looking at China's thousands of years of etiquette, righteousness, human relations, and poetry and books, once the rules are swept away, this is not only a change in the Qing Dynasty, but since the founding of China. I, Confucius and Mencius, wept bitterly in Jiuquan for the strange changes in famous teachings, how can anyone who can read and write sit back and watch, without thinking about what to do?"

Tan Sitong said: "Reforms in various countries are all formed by bloodshed. Today, China has never heard of anyone who shed blood because of reforms. This is why the country is not prosperous. If there are, please start with your descendants." When Xiong Chengji failed and was arrested for "confession", he said: "The history of revolutions in various countries has shed blood many times before succeeding. I failed this time. People in ordinary society don't know how to agree. The reason why I can't agree is because of freedom. The blood is not enough for the ears. For example, vegetation cannot grow without rain and dew. If our free tree is not irrigated with blood, how can we expect it to flourish?"

When Qiu Jin heard the news of Xu Xilin's failure before being arrested, she did not take the opportunity to escape. She said to those who came to persuade her to leave: "I will not come out to revolution because I am afraid of death. The revolution will only succeed if it bleeds... I If you don't go to hell, who will go to hell?" On November 10, 1918, Liang Juchuan committed suicide by throwing himself into a lake in Beijing. His suicide note said: "Because I was at the end of the Qing Dynasty, I died in the Qing Dynasty. In fact, it was not based on the Qing Dynasty, but on what I learned when I was young. Thousands of people in my country The poems and rites of the saints of the year, the inheritance and lessons of my ancestors and parents, and the principle of being responsible for the world that I heard in my childhood are deeply imprinted in my mind, and this is the standard, so I can't afford to die." Its wish of "death to righteousness to save the last vulgarity".Liang's suicide caused a great shock at the time, and figures from both old and new factions expressed great respect for his dedication to moral ideals.

In 1918, Shao Piaoping founded the "Beijing News". His ideal was to run an independent newspaper that would not be attached to any political forces; Three".Regarding his defense of freedom of speech, Feng Yuxiang commented: "Piaoping, a pen, is worth 100,000 troops." Chen Qimei has a mantra: "A husband is not afraid of death, he is afraid that things will fail." In addition, he likes to write the following kind of strong poems for inscription books: "Death is not afraid of death, and life is not stealthy. A man's integrity, light and Fighting day by day. The straightness of the Tao is not afraid of cooking. The whole body is like the Great Wall." "There is a sense of injustice, and nothing is self-sufficient."