For some time before, the Boxers had become a derogatory term, and the dansters had satirized the Boxers' ignorance, ignorance, and blind exclusion. But it has to be admitted that there were indeed certain problems with the defeat of the Boxers, but not only them, but also Chen Sheng, Wu Guang, Zhang Jiao, Huang Chao and others, who were called "the historical limitations of the peasant class" in the history books. However, there is a question that needs to be explored, how many foreigners did the Boxer Million Boxers who were originally under the banner of "killing all foreigners" kill?
In 1899, the Boxer Rebellion gradually emerged, and no one can say the origins, but the trigger for the outbreak of the Boxer Rebellion was a clash between the parishioners and the people in Jiangjiazhuang (present-day Wei County, Xingtai City) in early October. Since Vermilion Led Hundreds of Boxers to Defeat the Qing Army, a well-known proverb has spread in the countryside of the Plains, the Boxer Rebellion Plains, and has spread everywhere in Less than Three Months.
The membership of the Boxer Rebellion was very complex, ranging from peasants, craftsmen, and urban poor people to officers, soldiers, rich gentry, and even princes and nobles, and by the later period, it had almost covered all walks of life. In order to increase its momentum, the Boxers declared themselves "a million boxers" and erected the banner of "supporting the Qing Dynasty and destroying the foreigners", taking the foreigners as the primary target of attack, and the reason why the Boxers hated the foreigners so much was actually inseparable from what the Qing court had done over the years, in other words, the Qing court single-handedly created the Boxers.
Since the defeat of the Opium War in 1840, the Qing court has been signing unequal treaties, and after the signing of the Treaty of Beijing, Western missionaries have continued to enter China, setting up churches everywhere and spreading Christianity. One of the characteristics of the Christian way of preaching is that they like to go deep into the grassroots and take root in the countryside, and wherever there are people living, they will build churches, take the initiative to preach, and expand step by step. Since the missionaries want to build churches, they naturally have to fight with the peasants. Land, and Manchu Officials did not dare to offend foreigners, so they could only adopt double standards, so that foreigners had no fear and bullying.
Over time, the hooligans, robbers, and lawbreakers in Western countries have also bullied the Chinese people in the name of "preaching." At the same time, some villains and hooligans in China will also choose to join Christianity in order to gain privileges. In this way, the people at the bottom were subjected to various oppressions, which made social contradictions constantly intensify, and finally rose up to resist, forming a Boxer Rebellion against foreigners. But in fact, the target of the Boxer Rebellion was not all foreigners, but only Western missionaries, including those who had joined the church.
However, according to the data, the Boxers lasted two years from their rise to the suppression, but the boxers killed only 231 foreigners, including 53 children, and many nuns. Judging from this figure, the fighting effectiveness of the Boxers does not seem to be very high, but if you think about it, why should a civil society with no knowledge, no scientific theoretical guidance, and even no wise leader compete with the spears and cannons? They were only the most simple people at the bottom, and every time they fought with foreigners, their minds were still thinking of going home to farm the land, and when Empress Dowager Cixi wanted to reward the leader of the Boxer Rebellion with 100,000 taels of silver, they said: "A certain kind of self-funded axe wants to repay the effect, and is not favored by the country." What they have is just a simple to simple and crude patriotic idea.
At that time, many outlaws mixed into the Boxer Rebellion, and the "Chronicle of Gengzi" records that the followers of the religion all dressed up as false righteous and boxing clubs, seeking revenge and killing people everywhere, especially in the western city of Beijing. It was precisely because the Boxers failed that those unwarranted "hats" would be put on their heads, and the actions of the allied forces of the great powers could be called "atrocities" relative to the Boxers. But now, many people who do not know the truth stand on the moral high ground, saying that the Boxers are a bunch of "ragtag people", which is really sad and regrettable.