Empress Dowager Cixi did not collude with foreign forces to suppress the Boxer Rebellion. On the contrary, Empress Dowager Cixi praised the Boxer Rebellion? Help clean up the ocean? Slogan, and allow the Boxer Rebellion to fight alongside the Qing army in a legal capacity against Eight-Nation Alliance. Of course, after the defeat, Empress Dowager Cixi began to suppress the development of the Boxer Rebellion under the pressure of the great powers, but she did not treat the Boxer Rebellion in the most extreme way as she did the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement.

Just as everyone is three-dimensional, we don't have to completely deny Empress Dowager Cixi. In the last few decades of the late Qing dynasty, only Empress Dowager Cixi was able to maintain the country by fighting against the great powers without breaking, being harmonious but different? Dead but not stiff? What about other Manchu rulers at that time, such as Yi Xin, the weak Emperor Guangxu, or the Han rulers, such as Xuanzong? Southeast self-protection Li Hongzhang, Completely westernized? Reformists, etc. , are not necessarily better than cixi.

The Boxer Rebellion is a secret association and martial arts folk organization developed from Shandong in the late Qing Dynasty.

From the beginning, the Boxer Rebellion had the idea of anti-Qing and regaining sight. Later, with the intensification of the invasion of China by the foreign powers, the contradiction between the Chinese nation and the foreign powers surpassed the class contradiction within China, and the Boxer Movement proposed? Help clean up the ocean? Slogan.

With the continuous development of the Boxer Rebellion, Boxers all over the country constantly attacked churches of western churches, and some missionaries and missionaries were killed in the conflict. This event is called. Lesson plan? .

The Qing government also ordered local governments or sent personnel to suppress it, but the Boxer Rebellion continued to grow and spread to Hebei, Zhili and other places.

At this time, Empress Dowager Cixi staged a coup, imprisoned Emperor Guangxu, killed the reformists and listened to politics again. Western countries criticized Cixi for launching a coup and put pressure on Cixi. Cixi was very angry. In order to fight against western powers, Cixi decided to use the Boxer Rebellion.

The Qing government declared the Boxer Rebellion a legal organization, which made the Boxer Rebellion develop rapidly to Beijing, Tianjin and other places, and controlled some urban areas. Subsequently, Cixi ordered the Qing army and the Boxer Rebellion to attack the embassies of the great powers in Beijing. It triggered the invasion of China by Eight-Nation Alliance, a great power organization.

Eight-Nation Alliance landed from Tientsin and quickly defeated the Qing army and the Boxer Rebellion. Empress Dowager Cixi fled west with Emperor Guangxu in her arms. Cixi issued an imperial edict in the process of fleeing to the west, shifting the war responsibility of foreign powers to the Boxer Rebellion, and ordering the local Qing army to annihilate the Boxer Rebellion.

The Boxer Rebellion finally failed under the joint extermination of the Qing army and Eight-Nation Alliance. The Boxer Rebellion was anti-imperialist, but the Boxer Rebellion also destroyed railway and electric wire facilities, which was a manifestation of blind xenophobia. The Boxer Movement used feudal superstitions to unite the congregation to believe that they were invulnerable, which also showed the ignorance of farmers in China at that time.