Original text:
Tianxiang will be released from prison, that is, his masterpiece "Self-praise", tied to his belt. Its word says: "Confucius says benevolent, and Meng says righteous;" Only its righteousness is exhausted, so the benevolent is also. What have you learned from reading the book of sages! Every now and then, I have no conscience! " When crossing the city, you are in high spirits and the audience is blocked. When he was dying, he calmly said to the official, "I'm finished." Ask the townspeople who is north and who is south, and worship South again and die. Russia has stopped it, even died. Everyone who sees and hears will cry.
Vernacular translation:
Wen Tianxiang wrote a suicide note before he was released from prison and hung it in his belt. The inscription reads: "Confucius said that killing people makes people, and Mencius said that he would give his life for righteousness. Because he did his duty as a human minister, he achieved benevolence. What do you learn from reading the books of ancient sages, instead of benevolence and righteousness? Since then, I have almost no guilt! " When he was escorted through the city, his spirit looked natural and his attitude was calm, and onlookers were surrounded like a wall.
When he was about to accept the punishment, he said unhurriedly to the official who executed the sentence: "My work has been finished." Ask the onlookers in the market, where is the south? Where is the north? Worship the south, and then be punished and die. Soon, an emissary came to stop the execution, but Wen Tianxiang was already dead when he arrived. There is no one who doesn't cry.
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Creative background:
At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, there were many heroic defenders of Song and Chen against Yuan Dynasty. Wen Tianxiang, Zhang Shijie and Lu Xiufu were the first to be promoted, and they were known as the "Three Great Writers of the Dead Song Dynasty". In December of the first year of Xiangxing, Wen Tianxiang was defeated and captured in Wupoling after many fierce battles, and was rescued from Zhang Hongfan, a general of the Yuan Dynasty. HongFan followed him into the mountains and asked him to hand over Zhang Shijie for books. He flatly refused, saying, "I'm dead!" "
On the ninth day of December in the 19th year of Yuan Dynasty (1282), Wen Tianxiang walked with a chill and behaved serenely from the prison to the execution ground. Before his execution, Wen Tianxiang asked for directions, and then made several obeisances to the south. "What does the Prime Minister have to say?" The beheading officer asked. You can still avoid death by calling back. "Wen Tianxiang stopped talking and died peacefully at the age of 47.
Personal data:
Wen Tianxiang (1236- 1283), the word Song Rui, is a good word. Since the number Wenshan, Fuxiu Taoist. Politicians, writers, patriotic poets, anti-Yuan ministers and national heroes at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, together with Lu Xiufu and Zhang Shijie, were called "three outstanding men in the end of the Song Dynasty". Representative works include Wenshan Poetry Collection, A Guide to the South, Postscript to the Guide, Song Zhengqi, etc.