The rulers of ancient China always thought that the people were ignorant and ignorant, and because the door valve aristocracy firmly controlled the knowledge base, the vast number of people did not have a way to obtain knowledge and appeared ignorant and stupid.
truly
Without knowledge, many people are muddy all their lives
Listening to some rumors and rumors, this is why the May Fourth Games broke out, Lu Xun and other literati and scholars should vigorously promote education to awaken the wisdom of the people; but the people are actually wise, and this wisdom may not be as crepe as the "ZhiHu" in the books, but it is
The wisdom of survival that has been continued from generation to generation.
Whoever is good to himself, then support whom, who allows himself to live, obey whom, who does not give himself a way to live, then resist whom, this is the reason for the outbreak of the "Xilin Teaching Case",
Father Marais from France really did not give the local people a way to live, in order to survive, the people could only overthrow him, but it led to another disaster...
Missionaries are a type of people born with the great geographical discovery, and their essence is that the believers of Christian and other denominations have traveled thousands of miles to other places for the sake of their faith in their hearts.
Some of these missionaries really wanted to spread the teachings with good intentions and come to their aid in what they saw as "barren and backward" areas, but some were invading and committing crimes under the guise of missionary work, and Marai was the latter.
Since the Ming and Qing dynasties, especially in the early Qing Dynasty, China has welcomed many missionaries, and it is also because of these missionaries that the people at that time had a specific impression of the "red-haired and big-nosed" foreigners. But the rulers of the Qing Dynasty also did not like that these foreigners always came to fool their own people. especially
In 1704, the General See of Christianity issued an order requiring all Christians in the country to cease traditional worship, including but not limited to ancestor worship, confucius worship, etc.
This made the Kangxi Emperor angry, and the Kangxi Emperor thought to himself, "If you are allowed to come to preach, you will stand up to the heavens, and as a result, you still want to control our traditional customs in turn?" "One does not do two,
Directly expulsion of missionaries
It was not until after the decline of the Jia Dao that the missionaries began to resurrect.
In 1840, the Opium War, which was essentially for the sake of profit and plunder, broke out, and the British forcibly knocked on the door of the Qing government and began to sign many unequal treaties. Yes, the Treaty of Nanking is not unique, but also the Sino-US Treaty of Wangxia and the Sino-French Treaty of Huangpu.
There is such a clause in the Sino-French Whampoa Treaty,
Although the French were allowed to build houses, churches, etc. at the treaty ports, they were limited to five treaty ports, including Shanghai and Guangzhou, and missionary work was prohibited in other areas
outcome
In 1854, the French priest named Ma Lai came to Chinese mainland, first with a brief stop in Chongqing and then directly rooted in Xilin, Guangxi.
Xilin is a place where ethnic minorities gather, with many unique customs, even the Qing government respects the customs of these ethnic minorities, but Ma Lai, who carries out illegal missionary activities, uses the name of missionary to bully the local people.
He colluded with local corrupt officials and bandits
Therefore, a force was formed that the people did not dare to oppose easily, and then borrowed
Missionary work destroys local customs
Of course, the same set that once angered the Kangxi Emperor was used, and the congregation was not allowed to worship their ancestors in their homes. Worshiping ancestors is a Chinese tradition for thousands of years, so why can't you be inaccurate as a missionary? As a result, many contradictions have been raised.
Other than that he did
In the name of missionary work, local girls are often bullied
In particular, he likes to take advantage of the opportunity to hurt those brides by officiating on the grounds of the wedding. Imagine how hateful it is for a local teenage girl who has longed to start a new family, but is greeted with a nightmarish violation at the wedding!
Malai did all the bad things in the Schilling region, just in time
In 1856, a new prefect, Zhang Mingfeng, came to Xilin.
Zhang Mingfeng was sent as an official by relying on the imperial examination, and he also knew a little about the twists and turns between the Qing court and the foreigners, and knew that the foreigners were not easy to mess with, but Ma Lai's behavior was really too much.
If you change the official "old fritters" to come, you may be able to calm things down, but Zhang Mingfeng, who still has hot blood, really does not want to see his own people suffer so much.
Therefore, he ordered the arrest of Ma Lai and 26 other outlaws, and although the culprit, Ma Lai was not directly executed, but was imprisoned and allowed to stand without eating or drinking, and finally let him stand and die
This only dispelled the anger in the hearts of the people.
But although Zhang Mingfeng is worthy of the people, he is also worthy of his conscience,
Such an act was considered a provocation in the eyes of foreigners, and because of this "Xilin Teaching Case", Britain and France took the opportunity to create another "Yaro Incident" and launched the Second Opium War.