89 years ago today, on June 14, 1936 (April 25, 1936 in the lunar calendar), modern scholar Zhang Taiyan passed away. Zhang Taiyan, named Binglin and named Taiyan, a native of Yuhang, Zhejiang Province, was a democratic revolutionary and a famous scholar in modern China. He wrote many books in his life, including "New Dialect", "Beginning", "Answers to Decimals", "National History Balance", etc., all of which were compiled into the "Zhang's Series". Zhang Taiyan is an important figure in the modern history of our country. He is not only a scholar who has exquisite research on the cultural heritage of the Chinese nation, but also a gardener full of peaches and plums. Lu Xun once listened to his lectures and praised him as a "learned revolutionary". As a democracy fighter, Zhang Taiyan was once all-powerful on the historical stage for the liberation of the nation, the independence of the country, and the prosperity and strength of the people. Although he also had depression and confusion in his life, he was always distinct at major historical junctures. In 1895, after the Qing government lost the Sino-Japanese War, it signed the Treaty of Shimonoseki with Japan, which caused the reform movement. At this time, Zhang Taiyan resolutely ran away from his scholarly family and threw himself into the patriotic salvation movement. He supported the reformist movements of Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao, but opposed Kang Youwei's deification of Confucius and the feudal practice of promoting Kang Youwei as a "saint of the South China Sea", which initially showed his democratic spirit. When the reform movement went bankrupt, the bourgeois democratic revolution rose, and Kang Youwei opposed the revolution as the leader of the royalist party, Zhang Taiyan flatly cut off his own braids, solemnly declared a complete break with the reformists, and published "Refuting Kang Youwei's Book on Revolution", refuting Kang Youwei's reformist arguments, berating the royalists for moving against the trend of history, emphasizing that revolution is the best way out, and revolution is the best way out. The article quotes from the sidelines, and the writing is sharp. It is the most brilliant work in Zhang Taiyan's revolutionary treatise. It can be said to be a feat that promoted history at that time. After the 1911 Revolution, due to the failure of the old bourgeois democratic revolution, Zhang Taiyan was once depressed. He simply studied to comfort himself, "using the walls he built and others helped to build, he was cut off from the times." But his anti-imperialist and patriotic heart still hit dazzling sparks several times. In February 1914, Yuan Shikai's ambition to dream of restoring the imperial system was increasingly exposed, and Zhang Taiyan opposed it. He used the large medal Yuan Shikai had bestowed on him as a pendant and ran to the presidential palace to scold Yuan Shikai for hiding evil intentions. After the "September 18" incident, Zhang Taiyan firmly advocated anti-Japanese. Until his death in 1936, he also expressed his approval of the "August 1 Declaration" put forward by the Communist Party of China and the proposition of unity and anti-Japanese. Zhang Taiyan was an outstanding revolutionary with anti-imperialist patriotic thoughts, insisting that the truth was the source of his anti-imperialist and patriotic strength.