In fact, Wang Guowei died not only for "troubles", but also for his last words: "Fifty years, only one death is needed, and after this world changes, there is no turning back." The direct cause of his death was "the change of the world". As Liang Qichao said, "His usual pessimism about the current situation is extremely profound. The latest stimulus is that scholars Ye Dehui and Wang Baoxin were "shot". He also died for "culture". Whenever an old culture disappears, people always die for it. Wang Guowei belongs to such a "loyal minister of the former dynasty". Chen Yinque and others sincerely expressed their feelings about Wang Guowei's sudden death. Seeing Wang Guowei's death again is not worrying about his own heart. Wang Guowei was also very calm when he died. According to the gardener of the Summer Palace, "Mr. Wang entered the park at about 10 am" and "sat in front of the stone boat, and after a long time, stepped into the fish algae pavilion and smoked a cigarette". Can a person who has not looked for his spiritual world be so serene and calm?
After Wang Guowei's death, his family found a suicide note written the day before his death among his belongings. After careful consideration, it can be seen that the deceased is not in a hurry to die. This is consistent with the fact that Wang had no abnormal behavior a few days before his death. But the suicide note begins with "fifty years, only one death." After this world change, I have never been humiliated again, but I have left all kinds of doubts to the living and become a "mystery" for more than 70 years.
Wang Guowei's relatives kept the cause of his death secret from beginning to end. Then guess roughly divided into several types:
One is the theory of "martyrdom" Wang is an old man in the Qing Dynasty, and he thinks that Wang Guowei, the grandson of Puyi, is a scholar. Puyi broke the old system that "going to the south study room" in Qing Dynasty needed imperial academy's family background, and with this ideological basis and mentality of being an old man, he called him directly into the "south study room". Speaking of "overlapping nests", it seems reasonable to "finish the festival" by committing suicide. So Liang Qichao compared it to Boyi and Shu Qi who didn't eat Zhou Su. At that time, Tsinghua principals Cao Yun, Luo Zhenyu and Wu Mi all held this view. In the article "Talking about the so-called" ouchi archives ",Lu Xun called the king" ending the life of the old man with water ",so it is obvious. However, those who oppose this view think that Wang Guowei is different from Luo Zhenyu and Chen. Zheng and others devoted themselves to the restoration of the Qing Dynasty and committed themselves to Japanese politicians. Wang Guowei took the post of Tsinghua, and devoted himself to academic work. Although he was "honest", he didn't pretend to be an eagle dog, and even went from "foolish loyalty" to "martyrdom". So at that time, someone said, "Look at his will, why is there a blank prefix?" "Is the martyr like this?"
The second is the "forced debt" theory. In the First Half of Life, Puyi said: The Minister of Interior entrusted Wang to sell palace calligraphy and painting on his behalf, and Luo Zhenyu knew it. Luo took the painting away in the name of selling it, and repaid Wang Guowei's debt with the proceeds from selling it, so that Wang could not explain to him and died of shame. At that time, the newspaper also reported that Wang had lost money in business cooperation with Romania and owed Romania huge debts. After Luo's son-in-law (Wang ornaments) died, Luo and Wang had been estranged. Luo Ling's daughter lived in her own home to celebrate her husband's festival and forced Wang to give her living expenses of 2,000 yuan a year. Scholar Wang Guowei was in debt, ashamed and angry, and short-sighted. This statement was written by Mr. Guo Moruo, which is almost conclusive. However, according to the collation of evidence such as the posthumous testament of Wang Guowei, Wang Guowei did not commit suicide with heavy debts before his death.
The third is the "fear" theory. /kloc-in the spring of 0/927, the northern expeditionary army moved northward, and the two armies of Feng and Yan changed their flags, and the capital was shaken. Some people think that Wang Guowei committed suicide because he was afraid that he would fall into the hands of the Northern Expeditionary Army and suffer humiliation. In addition, Wang also regards the braids at the back of his head as his own life. At that time, it was widely rumored that the Northern Expeditionary Army would punish people who left braids after entering the city, so instead of being humiliated, he would commit suicide. But at that time, many people refused to accept it, thinking that it was not in line with Wang Guowei's way of life.
The fourth is the theory of "remonstrance". It is considered that Wang Guowei's throwing himself into the lake is similar to Qu Yuan's throwing himself into the river because he dissuaded Puyi from following the ideas of Luo Zhenyu and others by "remonstrating the corpse", and he planned to take refuge in Japan. Some people think that this is also the reason why Wang and Luo finally broke up.
The fifth is the theory of "cultural martyrdom". Chen, a mentor who is in Tsinghua with Wang Guowei, is like-minded and closely related to Wang Guowei. He first discussed Wang's death by "martyrdom", and later thought: "When the value of a culture declines, people who are transformed by it will feel pain, and the greater the process of expressing this culture, the greater the pain; Very deep, almost not because of suicide. " "If today's Chixian Shenzhou is worth a thousand years and will become poor, then the people with this cultural spirit will not die with it, so Mr. Guan Tang has to die, and future generations will deeply mourn and cherish the memory." Chen Yinque's interpretation was immediately praised by similar people and had an important influence in the cultural circle. However, Chen Zhi's view is not so much an explanation of Wang Guowei's death as an observation of Wang Guowei's spirit with his own mentality.
The last point of view is "various factors". Wang Guowei wandered in the promenade of the Summer Palace, recalling the adage that "he who sinks himself can relive his life experience in an instant", and then "jumped forward in front of the fish and algae pavilion". Perhaps this is the "mystery" of Wang Guowei's self-destruction.