First, there is a lack of organization and a strong leadership core.

Second, the Boxer Rebellion is blind and exclusive.

Third, the Boxer Rebellion is superstitious.

Fourth, the rebellion of the Qing government and the alliance of Chinese and foreign reactionary forces.

Empress Dowager Cixi issued an imperial edict on her way to the West, ordering the Qing army to brutally suppress the Boxer Rebellion. Under the joint strangulation of Chinese and foreign reactionary forces, the Boxer Rebellion failed.

Cause of failure

Subjectively: ① spontaneous mass activities, without the advanced leadership of the party and the guidance of scientific theory. (2) blind action, lack of clear purpose. (3) There is no strict organizational form, only relying on "a leaflet, thousands of people get together." (4) The use of superstition has a strong feudal backwardness. ⑤ Not alert to the Qing government.

⑥ The limitations of small farmers.

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The Boxer Rebellion was criticized by later generations as short-sighted and blind (caused by the limitations of the peasant class), which is embodied in:

The Boxers confused the concept of friends and enemies. Although the Boxer Rebellion played the slogan of "helping the Qing Dynasty to destroy the foreign countries" in time to avoid dealing with the Qing government and foreign powers at the same time, it lacked understanding of the essence of the Qing government, blindly believed that the Qing government would stand on the same front with itself and relaxed its vigilance, and was finally strangled by these two enemies.

(2) The Boxer Rebellion was too loose, without unified leadership, acting alone, with a single strategy and only relying on bloody courage. Therefore, even if we win the battle with the great powers, most of them are "killing one thousand enemies and losing 800", which is a huge loss.

(3) Boxer fighters' weapons and equipment are too backward and crude, and their main weapons are broadswords and spears. Of course, this is determined by the social conditions at that time, which can be said to be an innate disadvantage.