On this day 98 years ago, on March 31, 1927 (February 28, 1927 lunar calendar), Kang Youwei passed away. Kang Youwei On March 21, 1927, Kang Youwei died in Qingdao. Kang Youwei, formerly known as Zu, was called Chang Su by the name Guang, and was also called Rebirth. People from Nanhai, known as "Mr. Nanhai". Born on March 19, 1858 (eight years of Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty). Guangxu Jinshi, head of the Ministry of Industry. From 1888 to 1898, in view of China's crushing defeat in Japan, Kang Youwei wrote to the Emperor Guangxu seven times, demanding reform. In 1895, when he wrote the second letter, he encouraged more than 1,300 people to go to the Beijing examination to sign their names, demanding that they refuse to sign the peace treaty, that is, "write on the bus". On June 11, 1898, he was summoned by the Emperor Guangxu to detail the essentials of the reform. On September 21, Empress Dowager Cixi launched a coup. On the 28th, he killed Tan Sitong and other "Six Gentlemen". Kang immediately fled to Japan. The following year, he organized the Royal Loyalist Society in Canada to oppose the democratic revolution. In 1902, he wrote the "Book of Datong" in India. In 1912, he instructed Chen Huanzhang to organize the Confucian Church in Shanghai and initiated the activity of "establishing Confucianism as the state religion". In 1917, he planned the restoration in Zhang Xun, and Fupu Yi "ascended the pole". He was appointed as the deputy dean of the Bide Institute, but he failed immediately. He hid in the US Embassy in China for nearly half a year, and then scattered all over the country. Kang Youwei is the author of "New Learning Apocrypha Examination", "Confucius Reform Examination", "Wushu Tou Draft", "Li Note", "Notes on the Mean" and "Mr. Kang Nanhai's Poems" Kang Youwei spent the last 15 years in the apartment life of building villas, taking concubines to his heart's content, and visiting the mountains and rivers. Kang Youwei was in good health in his later years. He traveled all over the country on both sides of the Yellow River and visited dozens of famous mountains. Among them, the trip to Kuanglu and Zhongnan Mountain best reflected his political frustration. On March 8, 1927, Kang Youwei completed his 70th birthday in Shanghai and arrived in Qingdao on the 21st. On the evening of the 30th, a fellow villager from Guangdong invited him to dinner. He suffered from abdominal pain before finishing the meal and died in a foreign land the next day. Comments: He once shone brightly in the great waves of China, but he was not a diamond after all. In the long stream of history, he was reduced to such a person. Let people sigh!