The Boxer Rebellion, also known as the Boxer Rebellion, was a peasant movement in China at the end of 19 with the slogan of "helping the Qing Dynasty to destroy the foreign countries", which shattered the arrogant plan of the imperialist powers to carve up China, dealt a heavy blow to the reactionary rule of the Qing government and accelerated its demise.
In the late Qing Dynasty, the economy of North China went bankrupt and the traditional society disintegrated. In the era of change, people are worried, and all kinds of secret societies come and go. Churches, parishioners, foreigners and foreign goods have all become targets of hatred.
The Boxer Rebellion was able to prevent foreign powers from dividing up the country because it was a national uprising and imperialism could not suppress it. The history of China people's struggle against foreign church aggression for decades proves that it flourished after repeated repression.
It is precisely because the boxer movement has the nature of the national democratic revolutionary movement that the boxer movement developed on this basis has a more obvious nature and a very large scale. The Boxer Movement, with its heroic fighting spirit, attacked the imperialist aggressors, deterring them from doing whatever they wanted, and stopped their crime of sharing stolen goods.
Reasons for the failure of the Boxer Rebellion
The leading class of the boxer movement is the peasant class, who are basically ordinary people and craftsmen, which leads to the inability to put forward a practical revolutionary program. At first, they aimed at "anti-Qing and regaining sight", but they were repeatedly suppressed by the Qing government. Facing the serious national crisis, the Boxer Rebellion pointed its finger at imperialism and put forward the slogan of "helping the Qing Dynasty to destroy the foreign countries".
Due to the limitations of the peasant class and the lack of leadership of the advanced class, the Qing government headed by Empress Dowager Cixi was forced to surrender to imperialism in the form of false declaration of war and real surrender, and suppressed the Boxer Rebellion at home, which made the Boxer Rebellion in a dilemma and failed under the attack of domestic and foreign enemies.