1900, the boxer movement rose, and French imperialism suddenly occupied Tuanyuan Mountain, which aroused the indignation of the masses. Yuan Jiagu has a poem "Tong Yuan Shan Guan Zhao Wenmin's Beijing Book Remnants": "Cherish the gold book remnants, and the mountain temple prevents tourists from boarding. Like a song, like a bird crying on a hill, I want to clear the Buddha's headlights. " At this point, Yunnan plans to build the Yunnan-Sichuan Railway. He sent an urgent letter to the governor of Sichuan, not advocating the use of foreign engineers, and suggested inviting Zhan Tianyou engineers to act in Yunnan.
When Yuan Jiagu worked in the department, both translators and documents were Japanese. They objected that the translation and printing of Japanese textbooks hindered their copyright. Yuan retorted on the spot: "China literature has been spoken in your country for more than 1000 years, and I have never heard that China people want copyright from you. Can your textbooks compare with China classics? " The Japanese were immediately refuted.
1937, after the July 7th Incident, Beijing and Nanjing successively fell. Yuan Jiagu was so anxious that he was bedridden that he immediately called the children together and said, "Everyone knows that patriotism and love for home must be based on knowledge and experience, those who have been deliberate for a long time. As for me, the people are too ignorant to care about themselves, and they are proud of being a big country. I was unprepared when people invaded me. As soon as the war started, people drew charcoal, and I couldn't bear to watch it. " He was ill and drafted the article "Hating the Enemy", but he died on February 23rd of1937,65438+at the age of 66.