During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, the people at that time were dissatisfied with the rule of the Qing Dynasty and deliberately rebelled. They got together and formed a secret organization, calling on the masses to join. This organization is called "Heaven and Earth Society" and its slogan is "Parents, Anti-Qing Restoration".
According to legend, the righteous people in the Jianghu of the Heaven and Earth Society are all stunted, eager for public welfare and loving justice. They rob the rich and help the poor, treat each other with sincerity, go forward bravely, and shoulder the great mission of "resisting the Qing Dynasty and regaining sight" ... After reading Jin Yong's martial arts novels, many people can't help wondering: Will heaven and earth really exist with such a real historical background?
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Interestingly, the "Heaven-Earth Society" did exist in history, and it was not invented by Mr. Jin Yong. Heaven and Earth Society is one of the secret civil societies in the Qing Dynasty, named after "worshipping heaven as the father and earth as the mother". Heaven and Earth Society is also called "Hong Men", and there is another name known to most people-"Hongbang".
The exact time of the establishment of the "Heaven and Earth Society" has not yet been determined. Most of the members of the organization of the Heaven and Earth Society are farmers, businessmen, workers and diaspora people. Although the members of the Heaven and Earth Society are diverse and complicated, they have one thing in common-they were ruthlessly oppressed by the Manchu rule at that time, and they all belonged to the poor in the lower class. These "people in the same boat" can deeply understand each other's hardships and difficulties, help each other and take care of each other in life. Even if there was no clear "anti-Qing" purpose, from the early days of the establishment of the Heaven and Earth Society, it was repeatedly suppressed by the Qing court. As a result, the members of the heaven and earth society hated the Qing court even more, and the anti-Qing color became stronger.
"Follow the Heaven", "Oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty" and "Prosper the Ming Dynasty and never restore the Qing Dynasty" are slogans played by the Heaven and Earth Society in different periods of the Qing Dynasty, with only one purpose, that is, to create riots for the Qing government. In order to hide people's eyes and ears, members of the Heaven and Earth Society are scattered all over the country, creating new gang names. For a time, there were more than ten kinds of non-governmental anti-Qing organizations under the Heaven and Earth Society. Heaven and earth will not believe in doctrine and have no fixed followers, but the rules are very strict. The "Thirty-six Oath" requires gang members to be loyal to the organization, keep secrets strictly and obey the arrangement.
Heaven and earth societies are particularly active in political revolutionary activities. During the Opium War, Heaven and Earth organized armed uprisings many times. In the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, Heaven and Earth joined the Taiping Army to cooperate with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's revolutionary struggle. During the Revolution of 1911, Sun Yat-sen led the gang members of the Heaven and Earth Society to overthrow the Qing Dynasty. According to historical records:
People have no distance, nothing is difficult, everyone is brave, everyone is scrambling, there is Wuchang Uprising, and the provinces respond. It will be successful in a few months, and the work of the army is also the work of the Hongmen brothers.
"Red Gang" is not the leading role in this movement, but its role cannot be underestimated.
However, after the Republic of China, most organizations of the Heaven and Earth Society became "accomplices" of exploitation and oppression under class rule and became tools for a few people to compete for power. Some members of the Heaven and Earth Society stay at home to "help others" and some go abroad to unite overseas Chinese. After its overseas development, the Heaven and Earth Society took part in the struggle against western colonists many times, bringing the chivalrous spirit of China people abroad.
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So, today, where is the "Heaven and Earth Society"? In fact, the Heaven-Earth Society not only did not disappear with the progress of the times, but established its own country. Luo Fangbo, a member of the Heaven and Earth Society, was founded in Borneo on 1777. Luo Fangbo came to Borneo because of the increasingly serious repression in Qing Dynasty, and the wave of "gold rush" swept across the country. It is in this context that Luo Fangbo came to Borneo to "seek gold" and later established his own business empire. At its peak, the land area of Doris * * and China reached 730,000 square kilometers, which was larger than that of two Japanese. /kloc-in the 9th century, the Netherlands, then known as the "maritime robber", launched a war of aggression against Doris and China. Although Doris * * and China fought to the death, she was finally captured by the Netherlands and became a colony.
Doris ** * Republic of China
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Even so, both Doris * * and China have been influenced by Chinese civilization for 200 years, and some customs and habits in China still exist today. Today, most people in this area still use Hakka. The legend of "heaven and earth meeting" is also vivid in Mr. Jin Yong's works and has been praised so far.