Kang Youwei's Statue
Today, Mr. Wang is the envy of the whole country; If my husband has a history of New China in the 20th century in the future, I know that the first page of his book will describe his spiritual career and think that the motive force of society started from the beginning. If you are a husband, Mr. Guo is one of the first people in China! -Liang Qichao
Mr. Kang Youwei from Nanhai is recognized as a modern visionary in China ... Our generation needs a little knowledge of today's world, and its source is a gift from Mr. Kang and Mr. Liang. It is Mr. Er's contribution to the transformation and understanding of the world, and the history of modern civilization in China should be written in detail. -Chen Duxiu
(Kang Youwei) The idea of evolution and progress, the idea that the whole world is surging, combined with China's classical tradition ... led to a modern breakthrough. -Fei Zhengqing
Kang Youwei's brief introduction Date of birth and death: 1858- 1927.
At the age of 69.
Cause of death: food poisoning
Last words: there is no place for me in China, but I can't die in a foreign country.
Purpose: In the future world, public ownership will replace private ownership, the world will be public and the world will be one.
Ideal of life: implement constitutional monarchy and look forward to great harmony in the world.
Main works: Datong Book, Kang Zi Pian, Textual Research on New Learning and Pseudo-Classics, Research on the History of the East in the Spring and Autumn Period, Textual Research on Confucius' Political Reform, Textual Research on Political Changes in Japan, Travels of Eleven European Countries, and Guangyi Shuangchuan, etc.
On March 1927, Kang Youwei took a boat from Shanghai to Qingdao.
Facing the rough sea, he recalled his seventieth birthday ten days ago.
The day before the birthday party, Puyi sent someone to send a plaque inscribed by Yue Zhiyuan and Qing as a gift. This flattered Kang Youwei, who actually reorganized the official robes of the previous dynasty and worshipped God at a distance, regardless of the fact that the imperial power of the Qing Empire had disappeared in 16. After bowing down, he wrote a thank-you letter, which was copied by the secretary in fine print, printed thousands of copies and distributed to the guests who came to celebrate his birthday-this was the last time in his life that he wrote a memorial to the emperor in the name of a sage.
On the day of the birthday party, friends and relatives gathered in Shanghai to celebrate Kang Youwei's birthday at the hotel. Liang Qichao, Kang's favorite student, sent a birthday couplet:
Describe the sages, the whole hundred schools of thought are not neat, and they will be seventy years old next year!
The beans that serve the country are happy in spring wine and covered in industry!
The All-China Federation is composed of sentences in Historical Records, Hanshu and Zheng Kangcheng Collection, which is natural and appropriate. It compares Kang Youwei to a sage of Confucius, which makes Kang Youwei, who has always regarded himself as a sage of Kang, like it.
However, at this time, the Northern Expeditionary Army was marching into Shanghai, and Sun was defeated repeatedly. Kang Youwei was very nervous and wanted to move his family to a safe place to avoid the edge of the Northern Expeditionary Army. This is the trip to Qingdao.
After arriving in Qingdao, Kang Youwei lived in the Tianyuan Garden Villa he bought earlier. On March 29th, he came to Ying Ji Restaurant, a Cantonese restaurant located in Zhongshan Road, to attend a fellow banquet. After drinking a glass of orange juice, he suddenly had unbearable abdominal pain and hurried home. I vomited a lot that night, so I invited two doctors, one of whom was diagnosed as food poisoning by a Japanese doctor. On the 30th, Kang Youwei, who vomited all night, felt that the poison had been cleared and he was very talkative. As usual, he watches the sky at night. But after watching it for a while, I suddenly shouted by myself: it's over, it's over! At 2 o'clock in the morning of 3 1, he suddenly said to the people around him: I have no place in China, but I can't die in a foreign country. It seems that there is a meaning of explaining the aftermath. At about 5 o'clock, Kang Youwei died of bleeding from seven orifices.
Kang Youwei's death gained the essence of Confucius' knowing destiny. According to Kang Youwei's daughter Kang Tongbi's Chronicle of Mr. Nanhai Kang, before leaving Shanghai after his seventieth birthday, Kang Youwei personally checked the manuscript and took the dress with him. Before he left, he walked around the garden several times and said, I am destined to go to Shanghai! Then he distributed his photos to his workmates as a souvenir, as if he had predicted that he would say goodbye forever. When I arrived in Qingdao, I began to cry without writing a few lines. When I finished writing, I told my family: I am finished! I've had enough. You can cherish this manuscript.
According to Li Keliang, a junior whom Kang Youwei met in Qingdao Lake in his later years, in My Impression of Kang Youwei, Kang Youwei made individual arrangements and instructions for his family before his death, but said nothing about the nine girls. Someone asked him, and he said she was with me, so you don't have to worry. Sure enough, a few days after Kang Youwei's death, nine girls died. Being able to predict the time limit makes Kang Youwei's death unusual and full of sacred significance.
Shortly after Kang Youwei's death, his disciples asked Pu Yi to be kind and honest, but they were rejected. It was also planned to bury its coffin next to the tomb of Emperor Guangxu in Qing Xiling, so that the monarch and the minister could accompany each other, but it was also abandoned because of insufficient funds. Ten days later, the coffin was buried in Zaoer Mountain, Licun, Qingdao (some people mistakenly thought it was Xianger Mountain). This is the cemetery that Kang Youwei selected after inviting Mr. Feng Shui from the South to inspect in the rain for three days.
According to Huang, who witnessed Kang Youwei's funeral, the funeral scene at that time was very grand. Originally, I planned to pull the coffin to Zaoer Mountain with two horse-drawn carriages, but because the mountain was steep, the carriage could not go at all, and finally I had to rely on people to carry it up. In front of the carriage, there is a shelf decoration called hood with a big flower head. Kang Youwei's children are all wearing mourning clothes and sandals. After the burial, the children threw away their sandals and went home barefoot to show filial piety.
When Kang Youwei died, most of his wife and children were not around, and his disciples were scattered all over the country. Liang Qichao burst into tears after hearing the bad news in Beijing. On April 17 of that year, the disciples of Kangmen were called to hold a public sacrifice at Ji Fuxian in the south of Xuanwu City. Tears welled up in his disciples' eyes, and Liang Qichao sobbed and read out the eulogy: My teacher regarded China as life ... Situ Gu made progress through restructuring and creating people ... The 100-day facilities had far-reaching influence and comprehensive contents ... Those who later engaged in the history of New China had to take the Reform Movement of 1898 as the first chapter.
This article "The Death of a Master of Chinese Studies", co-authored, Contemporary China Publishing House, 20 10 1.