Lu Xun's "Medicine" mentioned human blood steamed buns. Folks believed that steamed buns dipped in human blood could cure tuberculosis. Tuberculosis is what is now known as tuberculosis. It can be cured, but in the past it was a difficult disease to treat. Many celebrities died of tuberculosis, including Lu Xun.

In the past, feudal people would spend money to buy steamed buns with human blood from the executioner, but it could not cure the disease at all. Xiao Shuan in "Medicine" still died after taking steamed buns with human blood. Li Shizhen, the "Medicine Sage" of the Ming Dynasty, once clearly opposed the use of human blood as medicine. No doctor in later generations used human blood to use medicine, except for some ignorant people and quack doctors with corrupt ideas.

In "Medicine", it is told that the revolutionary fighter Xia Yu did not hesitate to be guillotined in order to save the people and let them live a good life. But the common people watched Xia Yu's beheading as if they were watching a sideshow, and Hua Laoshuan and his wife were looking forward to Xia Yu's blood after being beheaded, hoping to get human blood steamed buns to treat their son Xiaoshuan's tuberculosis. In fact, anyone who is familiar with history knows that Lu Xun drew on the real deeds of Tan Sitong when he created the character of Xia Yu.

Tan Sitong was born in 1865 in Liuyang, Hunan. At the age of 10, under the influence of his teacher Ouyang Zhonghu, he became interested in the thoughts of Wang Fuzhi, a thinker in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. He was inspired by patriotism and later commented on him: "All things To summon the dawn of heaven and earth, one must rely on a thunder from Nanyue."

In 1895, Tan Sitong was filled with grief and indignation when he heard that China and Japan had signed the Treaty of Shimonoseki. He wrote a poem, "Forty million people burst into tears. Where is China at the end of the world?"

On September 21, 1898, Cixi launched the "1898 Coup" and arrested the reformers including Tan Sitong. Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao fled. When Liang Qichao was preparing to flee to Japan, he saw Tan Sitong for the last time and persuaded him to escape with him. If Tan Sitong promised that history would be rewritten, Tan Sitong would not die, but Tan Sitong disagreed.

On the day before Tan Sitong was arrested, some Japanese friends advised Tan Sitong to escape first and find an opportunity to come back later. However, Tan Sitong said the eternal famous saying: "Reforms in various countries are all achieved by bloodshed. There is no bloodshed due to the reform in China today. The reason why this country is not prosperous is because of this."

Tan Sitong, Xuanwumen Market, Beijing, September 28th. Six people were taken to the execution ground. The common people usually had too many hard times and loved to watch the excitement of beheading. On that day, the streets were crowded with pedestrians, and they threw rotten eggs and rotten vegetable leaves at Tan Sitong and the others. They would not think about this. Why do people go to the execution ground? They just "naively" think that anyone who goes to the execution ground is a bad person.

Tan Sitong was the person Cixi hated the most among the six people. He deliberately stayed at the end of the execution to cause him great psychological fear. The heads of the other five people were all chopped off, except Tan Sitong. The same attack failed, nor did two cuts. A total of 30 cuts were made. The people in Xingtai were frightened and said: "This is not beheading, but sawing." Although Tan Sitong was tough, he was also a human being. Why did it take 30 cuts to cut him off?

It turns out that this was also Cixi's special care, instructing the executioner to change his knife when dealing with Tan Sitong. In the Qing Dynasty, the greater the crime, the duller the knife. The executioner used a knife that had no edge and was too dull for cutting vegetables to treat Tan Sitong. Tan Sitong was stabbed dozens of times, but his expression remained unchanged. Before he died, he left the words "If you are determined to kill the thief, you will be unable to save yourself. You will die a well-deserved death. May you be happy!" Tan Sitong and the other five people who were killed were called the "Six Gentlemen of 1898" and will forever be remembered in history.

The funny thing is that when Tan Sitong and others were killed, the people in the audience did not feel any pain for them. Instead, they took out the prepared steamed buns and dipped them in their blood to eat them, praying for a cure. They are free from all diseases and live a long life. They only know that they have no pursuit and live life shamelessly. How can they know the heroic ambition of "I will smile to the sky from my own sword to save my liver and gallbladder"!