The Sorrow of the Boxers: Cixi took advantage of the mass hanging, and the Virgin was made into specimens and sent to Europe for exhibition
When it comes to the uprising and the regiment, people have mixed views on it, and some people think that this is a spontaneous and simple mass patriotic movement in our country in order to save the people and fight imperialism. Others think that this is a disorderly and ignorant and cruel peasant uprising. But many people confined themselves to these two aspects, ignoring the sadness of the Boxers themselves. They were originally a commoner, who spontaneously rebelled after being oppressed, but they were discarded by Cixi when they were finished, and even the Boxer Mother was made into specimens and brought back to Europe for paid exhibitions.
In 1897, a tragic incident occurred in Shandong, in which two German missionaries were killed by villagers who stormed the church, resulting in German troops stationed in Jiaozhou Bay. In turn, the contradictions and conflicts that led to the intensification of Shandong were ignited, and in the same year, an organization called "Boxer Fist" arose in the local area, which was the predecessor of the Boxers. The Boxer Rebellion can be roughly divided into three types, official groups, private groups and fake groups. The official group was an organization recognized by the Qing government and took the Qilu to obey the dispatch.
Private groups are non-governmental organizations, each for the camp does not listen to the arrangements of the Government, the red light of the last years of the Qing Dynasty is a private group, they are composed of a group of women, and also elected a virgin as a leader, self-reliant altar in the folk to engage in "extermination of the ocean" activities. The official group and the private group represented the two central ideas of the Boxers, "supporting the Qing Dynasty and destroying the west". In addition to these two kinds of organizations, there is also a "pseudo-regiment", as the name suggests, is the Boxers disguised by criminals, who are mainly responsible for running amok and oppressing the people to smear the Boxers, which is why people's evaluation of the Boxers is constantly controversial.
From its birth to its prevalence, the Boxer Rebellion did suppress the arrogance of foreigners, and even for a time foreigners in Beijing were in danger. This made Empress Dowager Cixi seem to see hope, she thought that the Boxer Rebellion was a secret weapon to sanction the West, so she was arrogant enough to declare war on the Eight Powers, and the result was to attract the Eight-Nation Alliance. The Boxers, who claimed to be "not bad in King Kong," were not worth mentioning in the face of the guns of the foreigners, and soon the Boxers in the entire city of Beijing were either killed or wounded, and many members of the pseudo-map simply defected to the foreigners, and in turn suppressed the Boxers.
Cixi also finally understood that the Boxers were nothing more than paper tigers, and she also threw the black cauldron of the Eight-Nation Alliance's invasion of China to the Boxers. In order to discourage the Eight Kingdoms, Cixi ordered the suppression of the Boxers at home and wantonly strangled the Boxers. In this way, the Boxers "supported the Qing Dynasty and destroyed the Yangtze" on the one hand, and at the same time, they had to be careful about the Qing Dynasty that they were bent on maintaining.
The male members of the Boxer Rebellion did not matter, and eighteen years later they were good men, but the female members were humiliated. Not only to be insulted by foreigners, but also to be defiled by the members of the "pseudo-group" who aided and abetted abuse. Even Lin Hei'er, the "Lady of the Yellow Lotus" illuminated by the red light, was betrayed by his men and captured after the fall of Tianjin. In the "Traditional Invention" written by the Frenchman Hobsbawm, It is recorded that Lin Hei'er was escorted to Europe and was humiliated and tortured to parade the streets naked. After Lin Hei'er's humiliating death, foreigners also made specimens of her body and put it in the museum for a fee exhibition.
"I don't agree with you, but I'm dying to defend your right to speak." Westerners emphasize natural human rights and equality for all, while inflicting atrocities on other countries. The essence of the Boxer Rebellion was really just Chinese resistance to Western oppression, but in the end it became a foolish upheaval under cixi's betrayal and the smear of foreigners.
In summary, the Boxer Rebellion was actually an inevitable movement, when the Qing Dynasty was faced with the oppression of both internal and external forces, and the imperial court put all the pressure on the people, not only for looting silver and silver as indemnities in the people, but also acquiescing to foreigners doing evil in the country. Desperate and poor people can only take up the weapons in their hands and fight hard, even if they only have kitchen knives and hoes, they still cannot organize them to defend their last living space with flesh and blood.
There is a line in Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai in which it is said that farmers are not bodhisattvas, they are the most cunning, but who made them like this? It is the warriors of war, the samurai who burn the village to grab grain, kill people wantonly, abuse women, and the peasants can only survive if they become more cunning.
Just as the so-called "forced to liangshan", there is no evil people in society to force it, and the head of the forbidden army, He Ku, went to Liangshan to fall into the grass. The real sadness of the Boxers was not that they were ignorant and backward, but that under the oppression of the Qing court and western powers, they not only lost the space for survival, but even the right to resist was constantly deprived.