The Origin and Author of Let bygones be bygones

Li Run, Tan Sitong's wife, wrote a poem of mourning after Mr. Tan's sacrifice.

The whole poem is as follows:

Let bygones be bygones, let bygones be bygones,

In the next life, I will become a lotus picker and meet you in Hengtangshui.

Li Run (1865 ~ 1925), whose real name is "Fu Sheng", is the wife of Tan Sitong and the daughter of Li Huangxian in Wangcheng County, Changsha City. Li Huangxian is a scholar of Xianfeng for six years. He teaches the Ministry of Finance and studies Yuefu poems. Li Runsheng grew up in a family of poems and books, and he was knowledgeable and polite, while Tan Sitong wrote an article against concubinage and was strict with himself. Their only son, Lansheng, died at an early age, but he and Li Run still respect each other as guests and have deep feelings for each other. It is said that on the eve of going to Beijing, the couple talked all night before turning off the lights, and played Tan Sitong's own "Remnant Qin" and "Great Qin Ting".

Tan Sitong (1865.3.10-1898.9.28), male, from Liuyang, Hunan, was a famous politician, thinker and reformer in modern China. His "Benevolence" is the first philosophical work of the Reformists, and it is also an important work in the history of China's modern thought.

In his early years, Tan Sitong advocated the establishment of the Institute of Current Affairs and the Institute of Southern Studies in his hometown of Hunan, and hosted Hunan Daily. He also advocated mining, building railways, promoting political reform and carrying out the New Deal.

1898 (in the 24th year of Guangxu), Tan Sitong took part in leading the Reform Movement of 1898, and was killed after failing. He is only 33 years old and is one of the "six gentlemen of the 1898 Movement".