One subject, three academicians and nine sons are all talented refers to Liang Qichao’s nine children, all of whom have outstanding talents and noble moral character. They are all pillars of talent who have made outstanding contributions to the country. Academician, all nine sons are talented."
1. Liang Qichao (February 23, 1873 - January 19, 1929), also known as Zhuoru, Renfu, Rengong, and Rengong. The owner of the ice-drinking room, the ice-drinking child, the guest of mourning, the new people of China, the owner of the free restaurant. A native of Chakeng Village, Xiongzi Township, Xinhui County, Guangzhou Prefecture, Guangdong Province (now Chakeng Village, Xinhui District, Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province). During the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, he was a modern Chinese thinker, politician, educator, historian, and writer. He was one of the leaders of the Hundred Days Reform and a representative figure of modern Chinese reformists and neo-Legalists.
He studied with a teacher when he was young. He studied writing at the age of eight, could write a thousand words at the age of nine, and passed the national examination at the age of 17. Later, he studied under Kang Youwei and became a propagandist for the bourgeois reformists. Before the reform, he and Kang Youwei united with provincial leaders to launch the "Submit Letters" campaign. After that, he successively led the Qiang Society in Beijing and Shanghai. He also co-founded the "Current Affairs News" with Huang Zunxian, served as a lecturer at the Changsha Current Affairs School, and wrote "Reform Discussions". 》Promote the reform.
2. After the failure of the Reform Movement of 1898, he went into exile in Japan with Kang Youwei. His political ideology gradually became conservative, but he was a theoretical advocate of the modern literary revolution movement. After escaping to Japan, Liang Qichao continued to promote the "poetry revolution" in "Ice Drinking Room Collection" and "Hawaii Travel Notes", criticizing the previous practice of using new terms in poems to express new ideas.
Promote constitutional monarchy overseas. After the Revolution of 1911, he once joined Yuan Shikai's government and served as the chief justice; later he severely criticized Yuan Shikai's proclaimed emperor and Zhang Xun's restoration, and joined Duan Qirui's government. He advocated the New Culture Movement and supported the May 4th Movement. His works are compiled into "The Ice Drinking Room Collection".
On January 19, 1929, Liang Qichao died suddenly at the Peking Union Medical College Hospital at the age of 56.