On this day 129 years ago, on November 7, 1896 (October 3, 1896 lunar calendar), the first person to die for the Republican Revolution - Lu Haodong. On November 7, 1896, Lu Haodong died heroically. He was praised by Sun Yat-sen as "the first person in the history of China to die for the Republican Revolution". Lu Haodong was named Zhonggui, with the word Xian Xiang, and the name Haodong. He was born on September 30, 1868 (August 15, the seventh year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty) in Cuiwei Township, Xiangshan (now Zhongshan) County, Guangdong Province. Lu Haodong's hometown is adjacent to Sun Yat-sen, and the age difference is only two years. They have been very close since childhood. In the autumn of 1883, Sun Yat-sen returned to China from Honolulu. Sun Yat-sen introduced European and American scientific and cultural knowledge and bourgeois democratic ideas to Lu Haodong, which broadened Lu's horizons. One day, they offended the local gentry and landlords in order to get rid of superstition. Sun Yat-sen was forced to go to Hong Kong, and Lu Haodong also left his hometown to Shanghai. In 1890, Lu Haodong returned to his hometown to get married. At this time, Sun Yat-sen often traveled to Hong Kong and Guangzhou, expressing his ambitions for saving the country with Chen Shaobai, Yan Lie, Yang Heling, and others, and was determined to engage in revolutionary struggles. Lu Haodong stayed to participate in their activities together. In 1893, Lu Haodong, Yan Lie, Zheng Shiliang, Cheng Kuiguang, Cheng Biguang, and others attended a meeting held by Sun Yat-sen at the Anti-Fengxuan in the South Garden of Guangya Bookstore in Guangzhou, and planned to The following spring, Lu Haodong accompanied Sun Yat-sen to Tianjin via Shanghai to write to Li Hongzhang, asking the Qing government to learn from the West and reform the political, economic and educational systems to make the country prosperous and prosperous. After several efforts, Li Hongzhang failed to receive an audience. Sun Yat-sen and Lu Haodong accepted this lesson and realized that peaceful reform methods would not work. This winter, Sun Yat-sen went to Honolulu to establish the first revolutionary organization of the Chinese bourgeoisie, the Xingzhong Association; Lu Haodong and Yan Lie and others were engaged in revolutionary liaison work in Guangzhou and Hong Kong. In January 1895, Sun Yat-sen returned from Honolulu to Hong Kong. Lu Haodong, Yang Quyun, Chen Shaobai, Zheng Shiliang and others actively assisted Sun Yat-sen in building the headquarters of the Xingzhong Association. In February, the headquarters of the Xingzhong Association was established at 13 Staunton Street, Central, Hong Kong, under the name "Qianheng Xing" as a cover. In April, the Sino-Japanese War ended, and the Qing government signed the "Shimonoseki Treaty" with Japan, which humiliated the country. The public anger brought a favorable objective situation to the revolution. The headquarters of the Xingzhong Association immediately decided to launch an armed uprising and attack Guangzhou as a revolutionary base. After the uprising was decided, Lu Haodong and Zheng Shiliang accompanied Sun Yat-sen to Guangzhou to prepare. A revolutionary general organ was set up at the Wang Clan Academy at the bottom of the two doors, under the pseudonym "Agricultural Society" to hide people's eyes and ears, and was presided over by Lu Haodong. After several months of preparation, the uprising was held on October 26. The secret of the uprising was discovered, and Tan Hamlin, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, urgently dispatched more than a thousand troops to the city to prevent it. At the same time, the military and police sent out to search for the revolutionaries. Lu Haodong got the news and immediately informed all comrades to quickly escape. He was arrested when he risked burning the membership list. After Lu Haodong was arrested, the local officials of Guangzhou in the Qing Dynasty tortured him and forced him to confess to his accomplices. He would rather die than give in, and wrote a "confession" in court denouncing the corruption and dictatorship of the Qing government and surrendering and betraying the country. Generously said: "Although this matter has not been achieved, I am very relieved. But as soon as I can kill, and those who follow me cannot be killed." Never confided a comrade. On November 7, he died heroically.