"Searching for Tan Sitong" is a collection of historical essays created by the Liuyang female writer Peng Xiaoling to commemorate the 120th anniversary of the martyrdom of Tan Sitong, a village sage. Based on Tan Sitong’s main activity experience in his life, based on the visit to the old place of Tan Sitong’s activities and his descendants, It is divided into six chapters, including life experience, fame and fame, visiting study in the north, staying in Nanjing, joining the reform, and going to the north during the Reform Movement. From the parents, brothers, wives, teachers, close friends who are closely related to each stage of Tan Sitong's life, and the reform during the reform period Selected more than 20 characters from the school, placed in the historical background of the changes in the late Qing Dynasty, through the description of the life and deeds of these characters, especially the description of the deeds during the Reform Movement of 1898, reproduced Tan Sitong with the technique of the stars arching over the moon. In his magnificent life, he praised his patriotism for saving the nation and devoting himself to the reform and alerting the people of the country with his death and ambition.
