"In the 24th year of the Reform Movement of 1898 in the 24th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty, among the six gentlemen who were martyred due to the New Deal, there was Tan Sitong, a Liuyang native. When he was about to be sentenced, he chanted a fatal poem:
I looked at the door and stopped thinking about Zhang Jian, and waited for Du Gen for a moment.
I am smiling towards the sky with my horizontal sword, leaving my liver and gallbladder intact.
This fatal poem spread throughout the country at that time. No one knew it and recited it. It's just that the line at the end of the poem, "Go and save the liver and gallbladder, Kunlun", I don't know what he meant. Someone who claimed to know once said that the "two Kunlun" refer to Kang Youwei and the broadsword Wang Wu. Whether it was true or not, Tan Sitong did not make a footnote at the time. Now that Tan Sitong is dead, there is no way to confirm it, so we can only assume that he was indeed referring to these two. The book "The Biography of Modern Chivalrous Heroes" is a portrayal of the chivalrous heroes of the past twenty years. To write about the chivalrous heroes of the past twenty years, it is indispensable to invite a hero with a career that lasts for a long time and a reputation that spans the universe as the opening character. However, there are many chivalrous heroes in the past twenty years whose fame and career are comparable to those of the Five Great Sword Kings. Therefore, among the characters and facts to be written in this book, it is necessary to start writing them in chronological order and in a convenient way. "
