Due to the excessive bullying by foreign powers, China people aroused widespread resentment, which led to the rise of the Boxer Rebellion. With the call of "helping the Qing Dynasty to destroy the foreign countries", they pulled out telephone poles, destroyed railways, burned churches, killed foreigners and killed parishioners. The Qing government believed that the Boxer Rebellion could be invulnerable and kill all foreigners, thus declaring war on the eight countries on May 25th, the 26th year of Guangxu (1900).
In order to put out the anti-imperialist struggle of the Boxer Rebellion and expand its aggression against China, the British vice admiral Seymour led the allied forces of Britain, the United States, France, Russia, Germany, Japan, Italy and Austria to invade Beijing from Tianjin Concession on June 1900.
In the end, China fell into an unprecedented disaster, and the risks were divided up. 1900 is the year of boxer in China lunar calendar. /kloc-the turmoil that broke out more than 0/00 years ago was also called "the change of the country of the boxer" and "the national disaster of the boxer" by the Chinese.
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After the Boxer Rebellion, China lost its sovereignty completely. The country of Gengzi has become a national xenophobia movement that China people can't stand the oppression of foreigners. It did not hesitate to fight the enemy's fire with its flesh and blood. Its patriotism was commendable, but its behavior was stupid.
Li Dazhao said in his book "The Fundamental Differences between Eastern and Western Civilizations": "So far, what we should strive for is how to learn from the strengths of western civilization to help the poor of our eastern civilization. Never use the ideas of the Boxer Rebellion to ruin the world with the weather of my death and silence. "
After this incident, the Qing court has become a candle in the wind, while China people are more eager to pursue the road of rejuvenating the country after suffering humiliation.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Gengzi Guobian