Tan Jun was born in Liuyang County, Hunan Province. When I was young, I was generous, ambitious, proficient in fellowship, able to write articles, like chivalrous actions, and good at fencing. His father Tan Jixun is the governor of Hubei Province. Tan sitong died when he was a child and was abused by his father's concubine. He suffers from loneliness and evil, so he is worried about dangerous things and more disasters, and his morality and wisdom are increasing day by day.

At the age of 20, he joined the army in Xinjiang and visited the Shogunate Governor Liu Jintang. Liu Jintang appreciated his talent and planned to recommend him to the imperial court, which coincided with Liu Jintang's resignation for serving his relatives, and it ended in vain. Since then, Tan Sitong has traveled to and from Zhili, Xinjiang, Gansu, Shaanxi, Henan, Hunan, Hubei, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang and Taiwan Province provinces to inspect local conditions and customs and look for heroes.

But in the end, because his father was stiff, he was not allowed to travel far, and his ambition of traveling all over the world was not realized.

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Tan Jun was born in Liuyang County, Hunan Province. I am young and ambitious, and I am good at writing, Ren Xia and fencing. Father Ji Xun, Governor of Hubei. The child lost his mother, was abused by his father, and was extremely lonely and bitter, so he was deeply worried and miserable about danger, and his virtue and wisdom increased day by day. Weak crown joined the army in Xinjiang, and Governor Liu Tang was the shogunate. Liu Daqi's talent will be recommended to North Korea; Meeting Liu Yiyang and going to the official is unsuccessful.

After ten years, I traveled back and forth to Zhili, Xinjiang, Gansu, Shaanxi, Henan, Hunan, Hubei, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang and Taiwan Province provinces to inspect the local conditions and look for heroes. However, in the end, the Governor was too cautious to travel far and failed to do his best.

Source: The Biography of Tan Sitong by modern writer Liang Qichao.

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Creative background:

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.

It spreads new bourgeois culture and new ideas and criticizes old feudal culture and old 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.

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 participated in and led the Reform Movement of 1898, which took place in 1898 (the 24th year of Guangxu). During this period, he assisted Emperor Guangxu to carry out reforms, rectify official management and get rid of bad politics. Finally, he sacrificed himself for the reform with the determination of "willing to wash dirty politics with neck blood"

It is against this background that Liang Qichao died for the times. This reformist wrote a biography.

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