In 1907, Qiu Jin was honorably righteous, and the judge Li Zhongyue felt ashamed and committed suici

Mondo History Updated on 2024-02-01

The Spring Festival movie "Man Jianghong" was screened, and everyone sang Yue Fei's "Man Jianghong: Writing Huai" in the film, which was ambitious and magnificent, and the image of a heroic military general jumped on the paper.

What is surprising is that in modern China, there is a woman who also wrote a song "Man Jianghong, Xiaozhu Jinghua", which is also imposing and emotional.

In 1903, her husband Wang Tingjun strongly opposed her revolutionary cause, and the conflict between the two escalated.

Although only four years had passed, the Anqing Uprising had failed, and Qiu Jin decided to stay in Shaoxing and disbanded the team involved in the revolution.

Now, by the West Lake, Qiu Jin's tombstone stands quietly there, and in the Qiu Jin Temple, in addition to worshipping Qiu Jin himself, there is also a male spiritual seat, and the spirit card reads "Mr. Li Zhongyue was kind to the woman in the Qiu Jin case".

In fact, this person was Li Zhongyue, the commander of Shanyin County, who handled Qiu Jin's case, and he committed suicide shortly after Qiu Jin left. However, what the real facts are, we need to start from the study tour and parade of Qiu Jin and Wang Tingjun in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, when there were internal and external troubles.

Qiu Jin married Wang Tingjun in 1896, but for seven years of married life, she was trapped between the courtyards of the house, like other Qing dynasty women.

However, she grew up in the home of the eunuch since she was a child, read poetry and books, and was good at riding horses and fencing, which was different from ordinary women at that time.

During her stay at her in-law's house, she was not idle, and had close contacts with Tang Qunying, Ge Jianhao, etc., and they were like brothers and sisters.

Whenever the three of them have free time, they will get together to talk freely, express their opinions on current affairs, and have in-depth discussions. Later, all three of them became revolutionaries and were known as the "Three Heroines of Xiaoxiang".

However, private discussions do not satisfy Qiu Jin, and she realizes that her time has been wasted. She understands that she has bigger ideals and should not be limited by the worldly role of women, and cannot do nothing under the roof.

She decided to study in Japan at her own expense to broaden her horizons, learn advanced ideas, and realize her self-worth.

However, her husband was just a small Beijing official in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, protected by the feudal dynasty, holding outdated feudal ideas, and resolutely opposing Qiu Jin's study abroad, and the contradiction between the two broke out instantly, causing them to quarrel.

Qiu Jin's mood is complicated and contradictory. Although she firmly believes that her determination to serve her country is stronger than that of a man, she fights alone, and no one can understand her worries.

She is entangled and saddened by her current situation, often reminiscing about the time wasted in the past due to the constraints of her home life, and feeling frustrated with her social status. However, whenever she sees China in peril, she summons up the courage to move on.

In July 1904, despite her husband's opposition, Qiu Jin went to Tokyo, Japan alone to study Japanese at the China Student Association.

In her free time, she will participate in the International Student Conference and the Hunan and Zhejiang Fellow Association, give speeches, encourage everyone not to forget to save the country, and run around for the cause of emancipating women.

In recent years, the anecdote about the "drawing the knife" between Qiu Jin and Lu Xun in the speech of the international student conference has attracted widespread attention. On November 2, 1905, Japan** promulgated a rule of law for Chinese students to attend public and private schools, which to a certain extent restricted Chinese students from carrying out revolutionary activities in Japan.

Japan** has made a big deal of hype about this and taken it out of context, calling this policy the "Prohibition Rules". Upon learning of this news, the international students immediately convened a general meeting and engaged in a heated debate around dropping out of school and returning to their home countries and opposing dropout.

Qiu Jin and Lu Xun are fellow villagers, and their families are only more than 500 meters apart, but the two are not familiar with each other. It wasn't until Qiu Jin came to Japan to study that they became revolutionary comrades.

Although both Qiu Jin and Lu Xun devoted themselves to the revolutionary cause, and the former was deeply appreciated by Lu Xun, their personalities and revolutionary ideas were completely different. At a congress, Qiu Jin became a representative of the radical faction, while Lu Xun chose the maintenance faction.

This disagreement reached a climax when Chen Tianhua wrote "Desperate Words" and committed suicide by jumping into the sea. In Chen Tianhua's suicide note, he expressed that he did not die for a certain policy, but hoped to awaken those compatriots who forgot the original intention of studying abroad and indulged in the prosperity of foreign countries.

If his death serves as a wake-up call to them, there will be no regrets. At Chen Tianhua's memorial service, Qiu Jin delivered a speech again, advocating that all international students return to China. Those who had come to Japan earlier to study insisted that this policy was not just for Chinese students, and that everyone should observe calmly for a while before making a decision.

At a congress, Lu Xun, Xu Shoushang and others held a dialogue with the radicals presiding over the congress on behalf of the maintenance faction. Qiu Jin, the chairman of the conference, did not speak after hearing this, but just took out a knife and threw it on the table, stared at the people in the audience, and sternly warned the person who made such remarks.

In fact, Qiu Jin only made intimidation, and did not really do anything. And the so-called "eat me with a knife" happened at the send-off party when Qiu Jin dropped out of school and returned to China.

Speaking of excitement, she touched a Japanese-style knife from her boots, stuck one on the podium, and said solemnly: "If someone returns to the motherland and becomes a lackey of the Qing people, betrays his friends for glory, and bullies the Han people, that person will definitely be punished by me!" ”

Although Lu Xun was in a foreign land, he never bowed to power; Qiu Jin's behavior was not aimed at Lu Xun, but a story woven by later generations who confused "sentencing to death" with "eating me".

However, this did not change Qiu Jin's image as a righteous man who was enthusiastic and generous for the revolutionary cause, willing to go to the soup and fire, and sacrificed his life for the country and the cause of women's liberation.

In 1907, she bravely sacrificed herself in Xuantingkou, Shaoxing, and left a strong mark for the country and the cause of women's liberation. The Qiu Jin case began with a leak that would have prevented an uprising.

In this tragedy, a heroine, a judge, and many compatriots could have saved their lives and started all over again, but they did not hesitate to pay with their lives in order to prove their faith.

The alliance led by Sun Yat-sen operated secretly throughout the country, and Qiu Jin also joined it after returning to China, becoming the leader of the Zhejiang branch. Under the guise of being the superintendent of the San'in Odori School, she actively participated in the underground activities of the anti-Qing revolution.

At the same time, Li Zhongyue was appointed as the magistrate of Shanyin County, he previously served as the magistrate of Jiangshan County, and he was a clean and virtuous person who was loved by the people. He had long been aware of Qiu Jin's secret anti-Qing actions, but he was an open-minded feudal official, and he admired Qiu Jin's talent very much, and even admired her poems in front of children, praising her poetry far better than that of the men at that time.

Therefore, he chose to turn a blind eye to Qiu Jin's behavior, and couldn't bear to hurt this heroine who was running for the country and the people.

Although it backfired, Li Zhongyue never imagined that there would be a day when he would face off with Qiu Jin in court. In early July 1907, Qiu Jin and Xu Xilin secretly discussed and decided to launch an uprising in Anqing and Shaoxing in the middle of that month, aiming to eliminate the Qing army's army in the southeast.

From the winter of 1906, Qiu Jin took advantage of his position to carry out ideological work among teachers and students, and at the same time added a physical education department to cultivate military talents. In terms of **, she obtained an official passport through her father's relationship and successfully purchased a batch of ***

In addition, she also often organizes sports meetings, wears **, wears knives and guns, rides horses and leads students to hidden places outside the city for military training, her chic heroine image is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and has won the admiration of teachers and students in Chase School.

The date of the uprising was getting closer and closer, and Qiu Jin had already reached an agreement with the Hui Party in the Jinhua area to wait for the appointed time to strike the Qing court with a thunderbolt.

On the eve of the uprising, Nie Litang accidentally leaked the news, causing the magistrate of Wuyi County to send personnel to search Nie's house, and as a result, the party manual of the Zhejiang League was found, which made Datong School suspicious.

What's worse is that the armed procurement personnel sent by Xu Xilin on the Anqing side also **, and confessed to Xu Xilin under torture. Anhui Governor Enming was ordered by the Governor of Liangjiang to hunt down the traitors, and Xu Xilin decided to preemptively strike after learning about it, killing Enming while he was attending the graduation ceremony, and then hastily launched an armed uprising, and finally took justice.

After the failure of the Anqing Uprising, the Qing court intensified its efforts to search for anti-Qing traitors, so that the villains who were usually hostile to Qiu Jin had the opportunity to sue.

A group of people jointly wrote to Guifu, the prefect of Shaoxing, denying Qiu Jin as the leader of the anti-Qing Hui party, revealing her stronghold and connections, and begging Guifu to remove her no matter what, otherwise the country would never have peace.

Guifu and Enming are both Manchurians, and there is a deep relationship between the two, Enming's tragic death made Guifu hate Qiu Jin to the core, and he immediately contacted the governor of Hangzhou Province and asked him to put pressure on Li Zhongyue of Shanyin Zhixian County, arrest Qiu Jin, and send troops to wipe out her comrades.

When the local people heard about this, they also asked Li Zhongyue to protect Qiu Jin and others, and although Li Zhongyue understood the righteousness, he still agreed to everyone's request. At the same time, the teachers and students in the school proposed to revolt immediately and capture Shaoxing Mansion, and then discuss the matter slowly.

But Qiu Jin vetoed the proposal, believing that Shaoxing's armed forces were too weak and that the uprising now would be tantamount to death. Moreover, the school is also on summer vacation, and Qiu Jin hopes that everyone can disperse and hide, and wait for safety before talking about the revolution.

However, after hearing about this, the revolutionary Wang Jinfa secretly arrived in Shaoxing and persuaded Qiu Jin to evacuate, but Qiu Jin resolutely refused, saying: "I want to stay and fight to the death with the Tartars."

The revolution must pay a price, and the Chinese nation cannot be saved without bloodshed, and this blood will be shed by me Qiu Jin! "On the afternoon of July 13, 1907, the clouds overwhelmed the city, and the air was hot and humid.

Li Zhongyue received a summons from Guifu, and as soon as he entered the door, Guifu angrily asked him why he was not doing well and why he was delaying so much. Guifu had already asked the governor to send troops to encircle and suppress Qiu Jin, and then he brushed his sleeves away, leaving two telegrams from the governor of Zhejiang.

Guifu saw through Li Zhongyue's sympathy for Qiu Jin, and used this time to put pressure on the governor many times. After reading the telegram, Li Zhongyue knew that he could not shelter Qiu Jin, and after returning to Shanyin County, he told the people that the Qing army was coming, and he would do his best to protect the life of the party.

At 4 o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, Li Zhongyue was forced to lead the army to encircle and suppress Qiu Jin and others, and he walked at the front of the team in order to avoid accidental injuries to the army. When more than 300 Qing soldiers approached the school, Guifu couldn't wait to order the soldiers**, but the soldiers chose to shoot into the sky in order to protect the county.

Qiu Jin, who heard the gunshots, immediately reacted, she shot and resisted, providing cover for her companions, and at the same time jumped on the roof of the house to attract firepower, wounding dozens of Qing soldiers.

That night, she had a chance to escape, but the spy Jiang Ji deliberately delayed, resulting in her and seven of her comrades being captured together. **On the first night after that, Qiu Jin was in the interrogation.

She knelt in the lobby and calmly looked at the three **s sitting on it, without any fear. In the face of Guifu's questioning, Qiu Jin strictly guarded and only answered some irrelevant questions, always emphasizing that he was rebelling against the family and feudal ethics in his personal name, and had nothing to do with others.

Guifu felt ashamed and angry, and loudly threatened to torture him in the lobby, but Qiu Jin just smiled and said firmly: "Whatever you want, I won't say anything else." ”

The news of Qiu Jin** spread all over the world, and people called for the release of this revolutionary, believing that it was one"Unjustly imprisoned"。Guifu, a person who wants to make a name for himself, does not want to cause trouble for himself by killing this celebrity.

So, he planned to use Li Zhongyue to get rid of Qiu Jin. The next night, Guifu ordered Li Zhongyue to interrogate the traitor, and Li Zhongyue acted as ordered, but he did not interrogate Qiu Jin, but had a two-hour conversation with Qiu Jin on an equal footing, during which he asked Qiu Jin to write down her life experience and the process of injustice.

Lee Jong-ak reported the results of the interrogation to Gui Fu, who believed that there was insufficient evidence for Qiu Jin to be accused of being a traitor and asked for her to be released. However, after hearing this, Guifu sneered and informed Li Zhongyue that Qiu Jin would be executed early tomorrow morning.

Reluctantly, Lee Jong-yue took Guifu's order, found Qiu Jin at 3 a.m., and informed her that she would be executed. Although he knew that his career would be threatened because of this, he still tried his best to win the last chance for Qiu Jin.

Qiu Jin was grateful to Li Zhongyue for his leniency and put forward three wishes, all of which Li Zhongyue agreed to one by one. However, the corruption and darkness of the Qing court filled Qiu Jin's heart with helplessness.

She understands that her efforts are just a mantis arm as a car, and she can't change the fate of this world. Before the execution, Li Zhongyue asked Qiu Jin again what her last wish was, but she just shook her head, her eyes were bright and bright, and she looked generous and righteous.

In the end, at the urging of Guifu, Qiu Jin calmly died under the butcher's knife of the executioner. Her death is a deep indictment of the corruption and darkness of the Qing court, and it also left an eternal courage and determination for future generations.

When the news of Qiu Jin's death came out, the whole country was shocked and felt sorry for this heroic martyr. And Li Zhongyue, who ordered her to be killed, endured the torture of conscience day and night.

After Qiu Jin died, he purchased mourning clothes and a coffin for her in accordance with her last wishes, and asked Wu Zhiying and Xu Zihua to write an epitaph for her and hand over the family letter to relatives and friends. Soon after, Lee Jong-yue was innocently removed from his post for revealing that Guifu had wronged Qiu Jin.

At the time of his departure, the people of Sanyin were sent to each other for dozens of miles. Li Zhongyue, who was idle at home, fidgeted all day long, did not want to go out, and often silently recited the seven-character poem "Autumn Wind and Autumn Rain Sorrowful" written by Qiu Jin.

Once, he tried to end his life by jumping into a well, but due to his large body, his family found and rescued him in time. Since then, his family has been on constant alert for his suicidal behavior.

However, on September 23, 1907, he showed a different look than usual, communicating cordially with his family, caring for them, encouraging them to live a good life, and he looked refreshed and much better.

The family thought he had already thought about it and were very relieved. However, in the short time after the departure of his entourage Lee Jin-cheon, Lee Jong-yue chose to hang himself. This news shocked the family, and Li Zhongyue's suicide was only 69 days before Qiu Jin's righteousness.

As a revolutionary, Qiu Jin has demonstrated her courage and determination with her freedom and determination beyond ordinary people, she is a real martyr, a brave and loyal heroine.

Although Lee Jong-ak felt deeply guilty in his heart because he helped the enemies of the revolutionary cause, he made an indirect contribution to the revolutionary cause by reducing the number of his comrades in the battle as much as possible.

They were all outstanding revolutionaries of that turbulent era, just like Qiu Jin's "Man Jianghong", even at the moment of her execution, she understood that she was not alone, and in this "red dust world", there were countless revolutionary partners who fought side by side with her.

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