What are the stories of celebrities who would rather die than surrender?

In Chapter 25 of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Guan Yu lost his city and his two sisters-in-law also fell. His soldiers are few and they have no food, so they can't settle down. It can be said that they will die, but he still has no intention of surrendering.

Liu Bei defeated Xuzhou, Guan Yu was captured by Cao Cao, and when Zhang Liao first came to surrender, he also said that he would fight to the death. Cao Cao admired Guan Yu very much and wanted to keep Guan Yu under his own account. Three-day small banquet, five-day big banquet, give a BMW and treat Guan Yu well. Guan Yu was unmoved. When he learned that Liu Bei was backward, he resolutely left Cao Cao and took refuge in Liu Bei.

2. Wen Tianxiang would rather die than surrender.

Wen Tianxiang, a national hero in the Southern Song Dynasty, was defeated and captured, and spent three years in a dungeon, repeatedly refusing to discuss with the enemy. One day, Kublai Khan personally persuaded him to surrender, and Xu served as prime minister. He did not waver, but said firmly, "I just want to die for my country."

Before the execution, the executioner came forward and said, "Premier Wen, if you change your mind now, you can not only avoid death, but also become the prime minister." Wen Tianxiang thundered, "dead died. What nonsense are you talking about! " Wen Tianxiang's generosity to the South left a touching song of benevolence and righteousness for the world.

Third, Xie Fangde.

Xie Fangde was active in the late Song Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty. After the Yuan people went south, they organized volunteers to fight against Yuan many times. However, due to the treacherous court official in the Southern Song Dynasty, the national defense forces were losing ground, and Xie Fangde could do nothing. After the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty, Xie Fangde lived among the people.

As a adherent of the Southern Song Dynasty, Xie Fangde is a man of steel. He lived in a hotel in an anonymous way. He wears linen and Ma Xie every day, crying in the East, mourning his old country and recalling the past. After making a living as a diviner, Xie Fangde became a diviner, bringing only rice, flour and shoes. If someone gave him money, he refused to accept it and lived a light and poor life.

After the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty, it was eager to recruit the old ministers of the Song Dynasty as officials to show that the new government was eager to recruit talents. Among the 22 officials recommended by the Southern Song Dynasty, Xie Fangde ranked first, while Xie Fangde insisted on resigning. After Prime Minister Zhao Zhao, Xie Fangde encouraged himself with Chao Fu and Xu You. The reason why he refused was strange. My name, Xie Fangde, is unlucky. I am afraid of polluting the new pilgrimage, so I dare not believe it. Later, his old colleague Liu recommended him. Writing to Liu refused, but he still didn't come out.

4. zhangqian.

In the second year of Jianyuan (BC 139), Zhang Qian was ordered to lead more than 100 people from Longxi (now Lintao, Gansu). They entered the Hexi Corridor to the west. Since the Vietnamese moved westward, this area has been completely controlled by the Huns. When Zhang Qian and his party hurried through the Hexi Corridor, they were unfortunately captured by tarkan.

Xiongnu Khan used all kinds of threats and inducements to soften and win over Zhang Qian and give up the idea of going to Ren Yue. He also married a Hun woman to Zhang Qian and gave birth to a child. But none of them achieved their goal. He never forgot the sacred mission entrusted to him by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and never wavered his will and determination to be an envoy of the Yue family in the Han Dynasty. Zhang Qian and others stayed in Xiongnu for ten years. 13 years later, only He, Tang Yi's father and his Xiongnu wife came back.

5. Tao Yuanming

At the age of twenty, Tao Yuanming began his career as an official. At the age of twenty-nine, he became a wine-offering gift in Jiangzhou, and soon became an official, resigned and returned to his hometown. Soon, the country asked him to be the master book, but he resigned and still lived at home. In the second year of Longan (AD 398), Yuanming joined Huan Xuan. At the beginning of the fourth year of Longan (AD 400), he entered the capital and returned from the capital in May. A year later, I went back to Xunyang to mourn my mother.

After the expiration of three years, Yuan Ming became an official again with the concept of "forty ignorance and no fear" and became a general of the town army, Liu Yu. At this point, his mood is contradictory. He wants to make a grand plan for the official, but he still misses the countryside after leaving office.