What are the heroic deeds of sacrificing oneself for righteousness?

Wen Tianxiang was a famous anti-Yuan minister and national hero at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, and he was also called "three outstanding men in the end of the Song Dynasty" with Lu Xiufu and Zhang Shijie. In the fourth year of Baoyu's reign (A.D. 1256), he was the top scholar and the right prime minister, and wrote to lord protector.

Yu Wupoling was defeated and captured, preferring death to surrender. In the 19th year of Zhiyuan (A.D. 1282), he died calmly in Chai City on the 9th day of December.

2. Lu Xiufu

Lu Xiufu (1235-1279), a native of Yancheng County, Chuzhou (now Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province), was a national hero of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Lu Xiufu joined the Jinshi list with Wen Tianxiang when he was 20 years old (in the fourth year of the Southern Song Dynasty). In the first year of Xiangxing (1278), Zuo became prime minister. In February of the following year, the Yuan army invaded the south on a large scale, and Lu Xiufu assisted the young master to station troops in Yashan to resist the Yuan. Unfortunately, he failed. After driving his wife and children into the sea, he was pregnant with a decree and bravely threw the emperor into the sea at the age of 44.

3. Shi Kefa

Shi Kefa (1602-1May 20, 645), whose real name is Xian Zhi, was born in Daxing, a famous anti-Qing fighter and national hero in the late Ming Dynasty. He was an upright and unyielding official and a famous politician in the late Ming Dynasty.

In the first year of Chongzhen (1628), he was a scholar and served as an official in Xi 'an. After that, the rebellions were put down. After the fall of Beijing, Shi Kefa made the axe king emperor Hong Guang and continued to fight against the Qing army. Official of Jianjitang University in Dushi, Ministry of War History.

In the second year of Shunzhi (the first year of Hong Guang, 1645), the Qing army laid siege to Yangzhou city. Soon, the city was broken, and Shi Kefa refused to surrender and was killed. It was summer, and Shi Kefa's body was beyond recognition. His adopted son Steve and Yangzhou people later changed him into Shi Kefa's clothes and buried him in Meihualing outside the city.