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Introduction: As remembered for his writings as his heroic acts, Qiu Jin gave his life for his one true love "of his country, and is the incarnation of a Chinese heroine.

"Oh! We can say that his warm heart was given a stone to sharpen the country could sharpen his dull sword. Qui Jin Biography

Its name means "Autumn", his personal name "Jade", naming Who Jin was probably the last time a heroine of modern China has followed the Convention.

Unusually for a girl born in the mid-1870s, Jin who has received an excellent literary education courtesy of his academic parents. However, it is reported that his mother abandoned trying to learn sewing and embroidery, for his determination archery favorite daughter and martial arts novels.

Eighteen he was married to Jin who appointed a circuit Commissioner in the capital Beijing, and she gave her son two. However, it was not happy with married life, forging an identity and a life independent of her husband, fencing, riding and drinking came as a hero of a Ying Xiong (Hero), a novel. To the embarrassment of her husband was to appear in public man wore Western clothes, and was an ardent Western Ideas defender at a time when women were not the establishment of a girls school and the conference against foot binding.

In 1904, after thirteen years of marriage, Qiu Jin took the unthinkable as leaving her husband and children in Japan, writing the following poem, crossing the ocean:

... She never came without tension on the tears of a patriot;

The hi a country depends on exceptional genius.

I enlisted the blood of hundreds of thousands of skulls

To restore the universe all our strength.

In the first action of Japan Jin Who is to separate him from his feet, extremely painful, bloody act was later described in histories of the Jingwei Bird (1905-07). Member of a group of revolutionaries in abroad who participated in plans for coming revolution, the first woman to join the Republican Party Ko Ming Tang, and writes for magazines in the revolutionary need to educate and to emancipate Chinese women. However, under pressure from fear of the Qing government, the activities of political exiles have been limited by the Japan. The time theory and the debate had reached in 1906, Enda Who Jin decided to return home.

Now, a leader in society restoration, whose declared aim is the overthrow of the Qing dynasty, corrupt, who created his chapter in Shanghai, openly taking a series of teaching posts and departure news magazine of Chinese women. Once a revolutionary ideas, Qiu Jin joined others, including his cousin, Xu Xilin, in the active planning a revolution, armed, learning to make explosives and even a clandestine bomb factory. Still hidden suspicion official, as director of the school not only trained their students, but the local population as an army.

Plans to During a national uprising July 19, 1907 were interrupted by premature action of a revolutionary cells only several weeks, causing rapid response of the government. In warning, which sent a message to his cousin Xu, who has decided to act before government troops could it capture, killing the governor of Anhui. He was sentenced to death by the court of his heart.

Hearing the news on July 9 in Shaoxing, Who and his students have discussed different plans of action but came to nothing, and when the soldiers entered the city on 12 July refused to flee and was arrested with six others. Silence even under torture, was condemned by the testimony of two of its poems. During the trial, which comprised what is now the most famous Works for his death poem:

"Falling rain, wind Autumn, my heart is dying of grief. "

Qui Jin was sentenced to death and executed July 15, 1907. First receive an ignominious burial in the overthrow of the Qing dynasty, five years later, Qiu Jin was buried under the supervision of Sun Yat-sen, first president of the Republic of China, officially recognized as the hero who had always tried to be.

The last line of his epitaph reads as follows: "Not only in the Southern Sung (Song Dynasty) were the heroes of mild to death ... all estimates (and) I remember in their hearts, heroism

John-Paul Gillespie is a New Zealand based writer and designer with a love of writing and a practise of meditation. A member of the Sri Chinmoy Meditation Centre, he pursues an inner revolution by other means.

John-Paul helps produce inspiration podcasts for Sri Chinmoy TV