"If you want to kill a thief, you can't go to heaven and die a natural death. Come on! " Anecdotal allusions are as follows:
Tan sitong, one of the six gentlemen in the Reform Movement of 1898, once wrote a poem in prison, which said: "If you want to kill a thief, you can't go back to heaven. A fair death honors the whole life! " After writing, Tan Sitong made a heroic sacrifice.
Tan sitong, a famous reformist, once wrote a poem in prison: "If you are bent on killing thieves, you will be unable to return to heaven, and you will die a fair death." "Intentionally killing a thief is powerless" means that people subjectively want to do something, but they are limited by the objective environment and their own abilities and cannot do it.
Extended data:
I. Participation in political reform
Tan Sitong devoted himself to the reform and political reform all his life, arguing that only by developing national industry and commerce and learning the political system of the western bourgeoisie can China become strong. Publicly put forward the ideas of abolishing the imperial examination, developing schools, opening mineral deposits, repairing railways, running factories and changing the official system. , is the most radical of the reformists. In his early years, he carried out the New Deal in Hunan and trained a large number of reformists by using the current affairs school.
Later, he took part in and led the Reform Movement of 1898 (the 24th year of Guangxu), during which he assisted Emperor Guangxu to carry out the reform, rectify the bureaucracy and get rid of bad politics. Finally, with the determination of "willing to smear politics with blood", he sacrificed for reform, spread new bourgeois culture and ideas, and criticized old feudal culture and ideas.
Although the bourgeois fraternity, equality and freedom are false, he shattered feudal absolutism and feudal ethics with fraternity, equality and freedom. Under the historical conditions of old China, it has its outstanding progressiveness in the fierce anti-feudal absolutism.
Second, die bravely.
From 65438 to 0898 (the 24th year of Guangxu), Tan Sitong participated in the Reform Movement of 1898. After the failure of the political reform, he died heroically in the execution ground of Caishikou, Xuanwu Gate, Beijing on September 28th, 898 (the 24th year of Guangxu), at the age of 33. At the same time, Liu Guangdi, Yang Rui and Kang were also killed, and the six of them were called "the Six Gentlemen of the 1898 Movement". 1899 (25th year of Guangxu), his body was transported back to its original place and buried at the foot of the Rocky Mountain outside Liuyang City, Hunan Province.