Kang Youwei's death?
On March 18th, 1927, Kang Youwei took a boat from Shanghai to Qingdao.
Facing the rough sea, he remembered his seventieth birthday 1 days ago.
On the day before the birthday banquet, Puyi sent someone to send a handwritten "Yue Zhi Yuan Qing" plaque and a jade handle as a gift. This flattered Kang Youwei, who actually reorganized the official robes of the former Qing Dynasty and worshipped God from afar, regardless of the fact that the imperial power of the Qing Empire had disappeared for 16 years. After bowing down, he wrote a "thank you fold", which was copied by the secretary in small letters and printed thousands of copies, and distributed to the guests who came to celebrate their birthday-this was the last time in his life that he wrote a "memorial" to the "emperor" in the name of the imperial sage.
On the birthday party, friends, relatives and disciples gathered in Shanghai to "visit the Lodge" to celebrate Kang Youwei's birthday. However, at this time, the Northern Expeditionary Army was marching into Shanghai, and Sun Chuanfang was repeatedly defeated. Kang Youwei was very flustered and wanted to move his family to a safe place to avoid the edge of the Northern Expeditionary Army. This was the trip to Qingdao. After arriving in Qingdao, Kang Youwei lived in the previously bought "Tianyuan Garden" villa. On March 29th, he came to Yingji Restaurant, a Cantonese restaurant on Zhongshan Road, to attend a fellow banquet. When he drank a glass of orange juice, he suddenly had unbearable abdominal pain and hurried home. I vomited a lot that night, so I asked two doctors for diagnosis. One of them was diagnosed as food poisoning by a Japanese doctor. On the 3th, Kang Youwei, who vomited all night, felt that the poison had been cleared, and he was very talkative. As usual, he watched the celestial phenomena at night. But after watching it for a while, I suddenly shouted alone: "It's over, it's over!" . At 2 am on the 31st, he suddenly said to the people around him, "I have no place to stand in China, but I can't die in a foreign country." It seems that there is a meaning of explaining the aftermath. At about 5 o'clock, Kang Youwei "died of bleeding from seven orifices".
Shortly after Kang Youwei's death, his disciples asked Pu Yi to be "benevolent", but he was rejected. It is also planned to bury its coffin next to the tomb of Emperor Guangxu of Qing Xiling, so that they can be accompanied by the monarch and the minister, but it is also given up because of insufficient funds. Ten days later, the coffin was buried in Zaoer Mountain, Licun, Qingdao (some people mistook it for "Xianger Mountain"). This is the cemetery that Kang Youwei selected only after he invited Mr. Feng Shui from the south to investigate in the rain for three days.
who poisoned kang Youwei?
The above information about the days before Kang Youwei's death mainly comes from the records of Kang Youwei's fellow countryman, disciple, former Qing Dynasty juror Lv Zhenwen and Kang Youwei's nephew Li Yunguang. The words "seven orifices bleed to death" were used in their descriptions, which is probably a sign of abnormal death. Most people think it is related to poisoning. However, it is unknown whether someone deliberately poisoned it, so there have been various speculations.
Kang Tongbi thinks that his father was "poisoned in food and died". According to an account of Kang Tongbi's daughter Luo Yifeng, Kang was poisoned and killed by the Kuomintang. So far, this statement has not been recorded in any other historical materials, but it is worth paying attention to and needs to be verified by historians. Some people say that it was poisoned by the killer sent by Empress Dowager Cixi before her death. It is said that after the failure of the Reform Movement of 1898, Cixi sent four assassins to Beijing to assassinate Kang Youwei. One of them is called Wu Imitation, and Cixi once gave him 12, taels of silver, ordered him to go out of Beijing secretly, assassinated Kang Youwei, and after killing Kang, he was given another reward and Jin Feng. In the next twenty or thirty years, he has been looking for opportunities to assassinate Kang Youwei and finally succeeded in Qingdao. In 194, at the time of Cixi's seventieth birthday, a letter was issued to pardon a large number of criminals convicted in the Reform Movement of 1898, but Kang and Liang were not included. It can be seen that he has never been forgiven by Cixi. However, this statement is also debatable, because Kang Youwei supported the restoration of the Qing Dynasty in his later years, and the grievances during the Reform Movement of 1898 have changed.
Kang Tonghuan, another daughter of Kang Youwei, disagrees with both statements. In the article "My Father's Tombstone", she wrote: "Kang Youwei struggled and suffered before he died, and his seven orifices were stained with blood. Of course, it was a poisoning phenomenon. However, the so-called food poisoning may be caused by the unclean food in Yingji Restaurant, not necessarily because of political struggle. " In recent years, there has been a fourth statement. Kang Youwei was poisoned by the Japanese. According to the descendants of Lu, Lu Zhenwen was also present at the dinner hosted by fellow villagers of Yingji Restaurant. Kang Youwei had a stomachache after drinking orange juice, or Lv Zhenwen sent him back to his apartment in a carriage. It was not until decades later that Lu Zhenwen revealed the truth to his son: he got the exact news from people around the Japanese emperor, and Kang Youwei was poisoned by the Japanese. Because Kang Youwei never agreed that Puyi would follow the Japanese, he once fought against the Emperor together with Puyi. To this end, the Japanese have always held a grudge and finally put them to death.