China had a humiliating process in the late Qing Dynasty, in the face of the bullying of the imperialist powers, we were powerless to resist, it is not an exaggeration to say that the beginning of China's modern history was a difficult and tragic lesson, but even so, our people still persevered in the struggle, and in that era, also did a lot of useful exploration, especially in this period of history, there was also the experience of sending students to study abroad.
In order to learn the advanced technology of the West, the late Qing government decided to send some people to study abroad, but because most of the domestic ideas at that time were still the way to become officials through the imperial examination system, for such a strange environment abroad, many rich and noble families were unwilling to go out, so at that time, the Qing government selected some young children in some poor families, the largest of which was only 15 years old. The youngest was 12.3 years old, that is, since the 1870s, the Qing government has successively selected 120 young children to study in the United States.
And these people also left a proper noun in history " to stay in the United States young children "these people after a long journey, came to a strange environment, the arrangement for these young children at that time is to give all to some American families willing to stay with these children, and then they complete their studies, although it is a useful common sense in Chinese history, but these first people who dare to eat crabs, in this process, also experienced hardships.
The learning ability of these young children is quite amazing, and they quickly overcome the communication barrier in language, and compared to this, these young children study harder, so most of them have excellent academic performance, but in less than ten years, these young children have been urgently recalled, and the original plan for young children to study abroad has also been declared bankrupt. In fact, the rulers of the Qing government found that after these students accepted Western ideas, they were very repulsive to their own feudal and religious ideas, which caused dissatisfaction among some conservative officials in the dynasty, so under the forced arrangement, these people were sent back to China, in fact, these students studied very hard, and they also had the intention of serving the country, and most of these students became outstanding talents in China's modern history.
But there are also some people with tragic fates, such as in these people, nine of them were sent back to China because of unruly rules, and then obscurity, and some people died of illness in the United States due to water and soil disobedience, including pan Zhongming, the smartest of these children, who was admitted to Renesalel Institute of Technology at the age of 15 and was received by the president of the United States at the time, but unfortunately, after only 1 year of college, he died of illness because of too much hard work, in fact, most of these children were born poor. Faced with the only chance to change their destiny, almost no one wants to give up.
Although the students' studies were forcibly interrupted, and after returning to China, because these people came into contact with the latest Western ideas, they were detained, these young children, a total of 94 people, were locked up in a school, even the Mid-Autumn Festival did not need to go out, directly as prisoners to be examined, and later assigned to work, but there are also a few who completed their studies, such as Zhan Tianyou, who presided over the Beijing-Zhang Railway, and the others, although they did not complete their studies, became the pillars of modern history.