Tan Sitong (1March, 86510 ~1September 28th, 898), male, born again, whose real name is Zhuang Fei, also known as all beings in Huaxiang, Ming Wan in Donghai and Liao Tianyi. Han nationality, a native of Liuyang, Changsha, Hunan Province, was the son of Governor Tan Jizhun in the late Qing Dynasty. He is good at writing, Ren Xia and fencing. A famous reformer. No.41,an alley in the northern half of Beijing, was his former residence when he was an official in North Korea. It was also here that he was arrested by the Qing government. 1898 participated in the reform movement of 1898. After the failure of the political reform, he died heroically in the execution ground of Caishikou outside Xuanwu Gate in Beijing on September 28th, 1998. Yang Shenxiu, Liu Guangdi, Yang Rui and Kang were also killed. Six people are also known as the "Six Gentlemen of the Reform Movement of 1898".

Later generations compiled his works into The Complete Works of Tan Sitong. It is said that while waiting for punishment, he wrote a poem "Looking at the door and thinking about James Zhang, telling Chen Shu to be ashamed of Dugan. I laughed at myself and went to save my courage. " According to the research of historian Huang Zhangjian, the last two sentences should be "throw a European knife into the sky and laugh, leaving it to future generations to blame." "I come from ..." These two sentences were changed by Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao (the middle school Chinese class was originally "Stay in James Zhang at the door and wait for Dugan for a moment; I laughed straight into the sky from the horizontal knife, leaving two Kunlun mountains in my liver and gallbladder "and" I want to stop thinking about James Zhang and wait for Dugan for a moment; I laughed from the horizontal knife to the sky and stayed in the two Kunlun mountains ").