吴芝瑛对民主革命的贡献——以相助秋瑾为例

Wu Zhiying's Contributions to the Chinese Democratic Revolution——Taking the Support to Qiu Jin as Example

吴芝瑛敢于公正直言,反对独裁专制,力倡民主和女权,为近代中国的民主革命事业做出诸多贡献,而她支持秋瑾游学革命,以及在秋瑾死后为其鸣冤营葬的义举尤为值得称道。在秋瑾的影响下,吴芝瑛逐渐摆脱早期简单的爱国情怀,日益倾向于民主革命。但客观地讲,吴芝瑛并不是一个激进的民主主义者,囿于官宦之家和身体健康等因素,她对"民主革命"的理解较为保守,在辛亥革命前始终没有超越同情与支持的范畴,即便是辛亥革命后,她也只愿做一个民主革命的参与者,而不是领导者。

Wu Zhiying spoke boldly in defense of justice,opposed monocracy,fought for democracy and women’s rights,and made great contributions to the Chinese Democratic Revolution.She encouraged Qiu Jin to study abroad and engaged in revolution cause.All the most admirable was that she volunteered to voice grievances and arranged burial ceremony for the Qiu Jin’s death.Influenced by Qiu Jin,Wu Zhiying gradually pulled out of her early simple patriotic feelings,increasingly plunged into the Democratic Revolution.But objectively speaking,she was not a radical democrat owing to her aristocracy birth and her health condition and so on.Her understanding of the democratic revolution was more conservative,not beyond the category of sympathy and support before the Revolution of 1911.Even after the Revolution of 1911,she was still willing to be a participant of the Democratic Revolution,but not a leader.