Editing Jin Shengtan (section)

===Death===

In 1661, Jin joined a number of literati in protesting the appointment of a corrupt official.  The protesters first petitioned the government, and then staged a public rally.  This was met with swift retaliation from local officials, and Jin was sentenced to death. This incident is sometimes called "Lamenting at the Temple of Confucius" ({{lang|zh|哭廟案}}), and led to a stifling of political dissent for years after.<ref>Sieber (2003), p. 147.</ref> Before his death, Jin supposedly joked, "Being beheaded is the most painful thing, but for some reason it's going to happen to me. Fancy that!" In a 1933 essay, noted writer [[Lu Xun]] admits that this quote may be apocryphal, but condemns it as "laughing away the cruelty of the human butcher".<ref name="Sohigian">{{cite journal | author=Sohigian, Diran John| title=Contagion of Laughter: The Rise of the Humor Phenomenon in Shanghai in the 1930s| journal=East Asian Cultures Critique| year=2007| volume=15| issue=1| url=http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/positions/v015/15.1sohigian.html| pages=137–163| doi=10.1215/10679847-2006-027| s2cid=145300758}}</ref>
<!-- Jin's last words were:

: "Beheading is an excruciating thing; drinking, an exhilarating thing. To drink before being beheaded is very excruciatingly exhilarating (painfully happy)."
: 「割頭，痛事也；飲酒，快事也。割頭而先飲酒，痛快痛快。」

: <small>''Note: to be "painfully happy" in Chinese does not have any pain-related connotation. It merely means "happy without restraint".''</small>

It is said that before his death, he asked a letter to be sent home. The official was, however, suspicious of Jin defaming him or the royalty, so he opened it after the Jin was beheaded, discovering two sentences:

: "Eating pickled vegetables and [[soybean]]s together tastes quite a bit like walnuts. If this recipe is spread around, I will have died without any regret."
: 「鹽菜與黃豆同吃，大有胡桃滋味。此法一傳，我無遺憾矣。」
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