Qiu Jin came to Beijing with her husband in the spring of the 21st year of Guangxu, that is, 1895. The Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 has just ended and negotiations between the two countries are under way. The Chinese representative is Li Hongzhang and the Japanese representative is Ito Bowen. Ito Bowen brought the treaty to be signed by Li Hongzhang. Li Hongzhang is afraid to write and wants to discuss it. Ito Bowen told him that there was no room for discussion, and Li Hongzhang could only choose between "yes" and "no". Otherwise, China and Laos will go to war again. In shock, Li Hongzhang signed the "treaty of shimonoseki" which humiliated the country.
When the treaty was signed, the Qing government was in the imperial examination, and 1000 juren gathered in Beijing. Under the guidance of Kang Youwei, they collectively wrote against signing the treaty of shimonoseki. Later, they founded Chinese and Foreign Journals and World Bulletin to introduce the corruption and incompetence of Qing government officials in the process of signing the treaty and analyze the harm of the treaty to China. Qiu Jin, who was raised by a boudoir, read these newspapers, and his chivalrous temperament was constantly surging in his chest.
In the second year after the failure of the political reform, the Boxer Rebellion surged, and soon Eight-Nation Alliance invaded Beijing, burning, killing and looting, leaving behind the brutality of the invaders everywhere in the Millennium ancient capital. The Qing government completely succumbed to the arrogance of foreigners, and the Treaty of Xin and Chou plunged China into the abyss of semi-colonial and semi-feudal society. Qiu Jin personally experienced this drastic change, and his grief and indignation were inexplicable. The chivalrous temperament hidden in her heart burst forth and she was determined to join the revolution and save the nation from peril.
Qiu Jin sailed out of Dagukou on the Japanese ship Nobita Maru. When Qiu Jin arrived in Tokyo, it was the cherry blossom season. There are many Japanese revolutionary comrades, and Qiu Jin's mood is like cherry blossoms in full bloom. Her ancestor, Jun He Thai Students' Association, studied Japanese hard for three months, then entered Qingshan Practical Girls' School and organized a "Ten-member Association" with Liu Daoyi and others, with the aim of "resisting the Qing Dynasty's restoration". Soon, he joined the "Hong Men Heaven and Earth Society" organized by Feng Ziyou and others, and was named "White Paper Fan" and became the strategist of "Hong Men Heaven and Earth Society". Her cousin Xu Xilin took his wife Wang to Tokyo. She is very happy. After Xu Xilin returned to China, Wang stayed in Tokyo. She took good care of Wang's life and started the feminist movement with her. She first founded the "Tianzu Club", believing that women with small feet are disabled and inconvenient to move. In order to keep pace with men, women must let go. Secondly, she advocates the revitalization of girls' schools, believing that women must be knowledgeable and self-reliant and should not rely on men for everything. She proposed: "Girls' schools are not prosperous, and their ethnicity is not strong; If women's rights are weak, the country will be weak. Chen fled to Japan because of reporting to the sovereign, taking with him two concubines, Xiang Fenhe. Qiu Jin encouraged them to leave Chen and made proper arrangements for their lives. Qiu Jin is generous, natural and unrestrained, and has no pink flavor. She gets along well with ordinary men, and Huang Xing, Chen Tianhua, Chen and Tao have all become her good friends. Soon, Sun Yat-sen went from Europe to Japan and established the "China League" in Tokyo. Introduced by Feng Ziyou, Qiu Jin became the first member of Zhejiang League. At this time, she was named "Xiong Jing" and her life was full of passion.
Qiu Jin returned to Shanghai and was introduced by Xu Xilin. She joined the "Guangfu Association" organized by Cai Yuanpei and Zhang Taiyan. While founding China Women's Daily to publicize women's rights, she rented a house in Hongkou and made bombs with Chen Peiping. Because the bomb exploded unexpectedly, the concession regarded her as a "dangerous person". She said: "I know very little about horses and cars, but our friendship goes back to ancient times." A few lines of tears hurt the situation ... The situation in this river is getting worse and worse. " In this case, he returned to his hometown in Shaoxing and presided over the school affairs of Datong School.
Datong School was originally founded by a friend of Xu Xilin. On the surface, it is a new education, but in fact it is a training base for the Guangfu Association. Qiu Jin presided over the school affairs, making him the plenipotentiary in charge of the revolutionary activities in Zhejiang. On the opening day, Shaoxing magistrate Gui Fu, Yin Shan magistrate Li Zhongyue, Huiji magistrate Li Ruinian and many local gentry came to Qiu Jin to congratulate the ceremony.
1906, in the thirty-second year of Guangxu, Liu Daoyi, the leader of the "Ten-member Committee" when Qiu Jin was studying in Japan, failed in the uprising of Pingping, Liu Liu and Qiang people on the Hunan-Jiangxi border. Xu Xilin, who was in charge of the student meeting of Anhui Police Academy, rushed to Datong School and agreed with Qiu Jin that once the time was ripe, one would start an incident in Anhui and the other would respond in Zhejiang. 1907, on may 26th, the thirty-third year of Guangxu reign, Xu Xilin shot and killed Anhui governor Enming when officials at all levels gathered at the police academy to attend the graduation ceremony. Qiu Jin heard the news too late to organize. Hasty response, failed uprising, Qiu Jin was arrested. Qiu Jin survived under the torture of Li Zhongyue, a famous cruel official. When Guifu interrogated her again, she pointed to Guifu and said, "My colleague is you!" " "Scare your face. When the interrogator asked her what her last words were, Qiu Jin, who had been beaten to pieces, climbed on the ground and wrote a book:
Autumn wind and autumn rain are worrying!
At dawn on June 6th this year, she was killed in a pavilion in Gu Xuan, when she was less than 33 years old. While cleaning the cell, the jailer saw the desperate words she left on the wall:
In China, there is nothing to save.
Bosha has a desire to rise and fall, and Bo Lang has no childish attack on Qin.
If the country breaks, it will know that it is competitive, and high righteousness will not hinder poverty;
Management hates unpaid comrades-in-arms and laments the sword with tears.
After Qiu Jin's death, Xu Jisheng, her old friend, risked being beheaded and buried her loyal bones in the West Cold Bridge of West Lake in Hangzhou, where Shi Kefa, a national hero who resisted the Qing Dynasty in Yangzhou in the early Qing Dynasty, refused to be killed. Soon, her son Wang Shende took out her bones and buried them in Wang's ancestral home in Xiangtan, Hunan. After the victory of the Revolution of 1911, in 19 12, revolutionaries moved her bones back to West Lake Gushan and buried them again.