Some historians once said: "As a ruler, the late Qing government made Chinese society regress for at least three hundred years", and to destroy China, it was enough to destroy China, and only a corrupt and incompetent Qing government was enough.
The inaction of the Qing government has matured step by step, and it has long begun to fight the ambitions of foreigners who have the idea of China.
Around the twentieth century, Chinese was endlessly bullied by foreigners in the homeland, the people were miserable, and the foreigners tried to start a war.
However, "servility" is not the background of Chinese, there will be resistance under oppression, and conflicts with foreigners of all sizes have begun to appear everywhere, of which the Boxers have the greatest influence.
Boxer
The Boxers were a non-governmental organization with a wide range of members, from the children of bureaucrats to the poor and the common people, where there was no social class difference, only the unity of the people who fought against foreign enemies.
At a time of national crisis, the Boxers were the right-hand men of the imperial court, joining forces against the invaders, but in the end they were ruthlessly turned against by the imperial court, resulting in their defeat by the enemy.
Although the Boxer Rebellion was short-lived, a large number of heroes emerged from it.
There was such a special team, called "Red Light Illumination", composed entirely of women, who played an important role in the Boxer Rebellion.
Our Lady of the Yellow Lotus
The leader, who called herself "Our Lady of the Yellow Lotus", was a woman full of "mythological" colors, and her appearance made the foreigners with strong combat strength tremble.
In order to "study" her, the foreigners tortured her for more than a year before she died.
What kind of woman, on earth, was able to leave an unusually bright mark in that turbulent history?
Feud with foreigners
If it were not for the fact that she was bullied by foreigners one after another and her family was changed, this future "Yellow Lotus Virgin" would have always been a woman with a relatively happy life, and the name that accompanied her throughout her life would only be Lin Hei'er.
Women of the old times
In 1884, Lin Hei'er was born in an ordinary boat family in the lower reaches of the South Canal in Tianjin, with ancestors in the family, engaged in opera work, which can be said to be a family of opera.
Lin Hei'er's mother died very early, and she was the only child in the family.
Since she was a child, she has followed her father, uncle and the drama team led by her father to go south and north to make a living.
At that time, opera was very popular in the Shanghai Concession generation, and Tianjin and Shanghai became the places where they most often traveled.
The people of the old times
In this way, the income of the drama team is quite OK, and it often receives performances, especially in that year when there are frozen bones every day, Lin Hei'er's life is indeed a good life.
Since there is only one daughter in the family, no man can inherit the family craft, and there will be a drama team to manage in the future, when the daughter gradually grows to more than ten years old, the father begins to consider the inheritance issue.
He took charge of his daughter, began to teach her some singing knowledge and performance skills, cultivated as an inheritor, and assigned her the master brother Li Youyin in the team to take care of her as a future son-in-law.
Lin Hei'er slowly learned some fist and foot kung fu, as well as knife and stick techniques, and sometimes she can replace others and perform a simple performance.
Old-time drama team
At the same time, as the only woman in the drama team, she also learned some basic medicine necessary for "walking the rivers and lakes" from her uncle, and was responsible for the care of everyone on weekdays.
About the same time that Lin Hei'er had just learned these crafts, the business of the drama team suddenly increased.
At that time, there were suddenly more foreigners coming to the Shanghai Concession, and these foreigners were very interested in China's opera culture and often spent money to hire opera teams to perform in the concession.
Lin Hei'er's father's drama team has also been arranged for business many times, so Lin Hei'er initially did not reject foreigners, but also had a good feeling, especially foreigners are always generous and will give more points every time.
Foreigners of the old times
After all, it is going out to ask for business, who will have a vendetta against money!
However, the good times did not last long, and these foreigners soon showed their sharp claws.
When Lin Hei'er was fifteen years old, when his father performed as usual on stage, one of the lyrics inexplicably angered a powerful foreigner, who could not help but say that he colluded with the officials to take Lin Hei'er's father away and beat him to death directly in prison.
Lin Hei'er was extremely sad, but he had no power to avenge his father, so he had to endure under the comfort of everyone.
Qing Dynasty foreigners on the street
Since foreigners are so bad and can't afford to provoke, it is better to avoid them as much as possible in the future.
When Lin Hei'er was sixteen years old, his brother Li Youyin was once again bullied by foreigners, beaten in the street, and finally taken away by the officials.
Lin Hei'er tried everything to finally rescue Li Youyin, who was already dying, and it was not long before Li Youyin died in Lin Hei'er's arms.
At this time, the relatives around him were killed twice, and Lin Hei'er's hatred for foreigners was simply to the extreme.
Foreigners of the Qing Dynasty
She had no intention of carrying her father's drama team and leaving it to her uncle to manage, while she herself took care of another thing - revenge.
Join the Boxer Rebellion
However, Lin Hei'er has a heart of revenge, or a woman, plus she is in the ranks of "inferior people", there is no power to say, not even a way.
But despite this, Lin Hei'er was not idle, and she returned to her hometown of Tianjin South to look around for opportunities.
In 1900, the Boxer Rebellion grew all the way to Tianjin, which was closer to Beijing, and the leader Zhang Decheng personally came to Tianjin, planning to set up a general altar here.
Zhang Decheng picture
The Boxer Rebellion was the largest organization in the current uprising of the people, known as the "First Regiment under Heaven".
The Boxer Rebellion as we know it today was called the anti-imperialist patriotic movement, and "emperor" referred to the imperialist powers, but originally, this "emperor" referred to the emperor in the Forbidden City and the Qing government.
Once the people revolted, the imperial court, which had always suppressed the common people, naturally could not sit back and relax, so at that time, the Boxers had always been the most feared organization of the imperial court, in addition to being jealous of their armed forces, they were even more jealous of their "divine power".
In the final analysis, the Boxers formed an organization by pretending to be gods and ghosts, so they made things up, and the people believed in their divine power and joined one after another.
Boxer Divine Power
The Boxers looted the rich and the poor in their daily lives, but there was also internal chaos, and due to the lack of effective management, there was a split within the Boxers.
Coupled with the fact that there were too many external enemies and gradually unable to carry the banner of "anti-imperialism", at this time, the Qing government comforted Zhao'an, so it turned to supporting the imperial court, jointly defending foreign enemies, and put forward the loud slogan of "supporting the Qing Dynasty and destroying the foreign countries".
In this way, the Boxer Rebellion became bright and upright, the country was in trouble, the people's hatred for foreigners was difficult to read, and the Boxer Rebellion received a response from the poor people in north China, and its scale grew rapidly.
This time in Tianjin, the Boxers also under the slogan of "supporting the Qing Dynasty and destroying the foreign countries", Lin Hei'er heard such good news, it simply coincided with her own ideas, she wanted to join the Boxers.
Boxer slogan
Lin Hei'er had the courage to find Zhang Decheng, explaining his determination to join and smoothly joining.
But a woman is still difficult to become a big climate, Lin Hei'er wants to become the leader of the figure, she must find a way.
One day, she thought of emulating Liu Bang's personal beheading of the white snake and wrapping herself in a hint of mythology.
Since then, Lin Hei'er has never used her own name again, she calls herself "Lotus Virgin", and uses all her "tricks" in this matter.
First of all, she started from the medical skills that she had been leaning on, and whenever she saw someone sick, she took the initiative to help, adding the spell water to the potion prepared in advance, and then with the guidance of similar spells, the patient drank the "water", and indeed the disease was eliminated.
Film and television drama image
Soon, this matter was spread more and more widely, and Lin Hei'er was also known as "Xian Gu".
After all, attacking foreign talents is the right thing to do, Lin Hei'er set up an organization named "Red Lantern Illumination", and created a red light altar at the south canal in Houjiahou, Tianjin, to recruit people who swore to kill foreigners like himself.
In fact, the Boxer Rebellion was a national movement, it was impossible to completely avoid women joining, coupled with the fierce anti-foreign sentiment of the people at that time, there was also a saying that women belonged to the yin and could overcome the "magic" of foreigners.
So the Boxer leaders came up with a way to recruit women as affiliated groups to give full play to the seemingly weak power of this part of women.
Red light
As a result, many women's groups were established, such as red lights, blue lights, black lights, and flower lights, which were composed of women of different identities and ages.
Among them, the contribution of the red light led by Lin Hei'er is the most prominent.
Red Lantern has always only recruited women who are similar to his own age, and in order to expand his reputation, Lin Hei'er also claims that he has fully mastered the art of conquering foreigners.
In this way, with the support of Zhang Decheng, the red light shone for a time and grew to two or three thousand people.
Lin Hei'er also made some rules, after joining, he must wear a red hat, red clothes, red shoes, the married person's head comb high bun, and the unmarried person's bun into a double bun.
In addition, they hold red lanterns in their right hands and red folding fans in their left hands, and there is also a certain "saying" about such a configuration.
She had shown some kung fu, and told everyone that she would teach them "spells", and that she needed strict training on weekdays, and as long as she practiced sincerely enough for 7749 days, she could easily walk on the water without wetting her shoes, and she could also take off in the air.
Dramatic image
At that time, the red lantern and the red folding fan in the hand will become magic weapons, as long as the red lantern is thrown to the enemy, it will ignite a fire and burn all the foreigners, and if the red folding fan is one, the other party's cannon will not be able to make a sound.
The red light illumination was fierce, and at that time, there was also such a saying in the folk that "the red light of the woman, the righteousness of the man and the fist." There is no end to catching up, and there is no end to killing. ”
Everyone believed Lin Hei'er's claims, even folk rumors, saying that she knew spells, could not enter the sword and gun, could ride the clouds and so on.
Lin Hei'er's status quickly rose, and some people said that she was a god and a mortal, and even officials had to kneel down to salute when they saw her.
According to the Qing history manuscript: "Whenever Lin Hei'er traveled, the people burned incense and knelt down, and did not dare to look up, called Xian Gu, and when the boxers encountered it, they also knelt beside the road."
Heroic resistance
The foreigners in China were becoming increasingly rampant, the war of aggression was about to erupt, and the imperial court knew that it was powerless to resist and urgently needed countermeasures.
At this time, Empress Dowager Cixi ordered that the Boxers be allowed to enter Beijing, preparing to unite the forces of the Boxers and attack the foreigners head-on in the city of Beijing, with the Boxers acting as the main force in the battle, and Lin Hei'er's red light also participated in the battle.
Boxers fought on the left
Seeing China's counterattack, the other side directly launched the Eight-Power Alliance's war of aggression against China, and the domestic situation was urgent.
Because the red light was all women, initially responsible for taking care of the wounded in the large army, plus collecting intelligence, and then directly joined the front line, fighting many victorious battles along the way, especially at the old Longtou Station and the Zizhu Forest, defeating the vanguard of the Eight-Nation Alliance.
In the Frenchman Pierlotti's "The Year That Tore Beijing" recorded: "Just when the Boxers could not resist, they reinforced a force of more than two thousand women dressed in red, and attacked the coalition forces with cold weapons in their hands."
In this way, the red light successfully delayed the support of the Eight-Nation Alliance and won favorable conditions for Zhang Decheng, who killed the enemy in beijing.
The Eight-Nation Alliance was surprised by this unknown red color on the battlefield, and after inquiring, it learned that the "Yellow Lotus Virgin" was a woman with magic skills.
In fact, where there is any magic, Lin Hei'er did this just to unite the strength of the people and firmly believe that the war would be won.
The artillery fire seemed mighty and powerful, but sometimes it could not withstand the anger it provoked.
The Treaty of Simgou was signed
Seeing this, the Eight-Power Alliance began to exert pressure on the imperial court and coerce it into signing the "Xinugu Treaty" that humiliated the country, and the imperial court suddenly turned against the Boxers and launched an attack on the Boxers in the back road, and the Boxers were attacked on their backs and were quickly defeated.
Righteousness is righteousness
The Boxer Rebellion failed, suffering heavy casualties, with foreigners in the front and the imperial court in the back, and those who were lucky enough not to die in battle to flee to various places in Beijing.
The leaders Zhang Decheng and Lin Hei'er were scattered and hidden, but the foreigners still did not give up on the defeated Kou, and they forced the imperial court to inquire about the way and arrested many people.
Because of his betrayal, Lin Hei'er was also quickly caught around Beijing.
The foreigners caught Lin Hei'er and did not kill her directly, but were very curious about her abilities and magic, and the foreigners began to torture her in the name of studying and playing.
In the end, Lin Hei'er died of extreme pain, and Western armies far outside of China had heard the legend of "red light", and they thought that these women should really be able to fly, and their bodies might be different from ordinary people.
So he brought Lin Hei'er's body back to Europe and soaked it in formalin for research.
The foreigners made her corpse into a specimen to warn all those who tried to resist.
The red light illuminates the image
Many years later, a human specimen from the end of the Qing Dynasty was exhibited abroad, and this person turned out to be the Chinese woman Lin Hei'er.
Seeing this situation, the Chinese people were indignant: This is our Chinese heroine, and I did not expect to receive such treatment after death, which is really resentful.
As a woman, Lin Hei'er is undoubtedly heroic, although the spells and abilities are illusory, but the patriotism and hatred of not sharing the heavens are incomparably real.
Foreigners capture the people
Some people regard humiliation as their own business, endure in silence, and are bullied without making a sound, while some people regard him as a matter of the nation, which is a family hatred and even more a national vendetta.
Lin Hei'er is not, the epitome of countless vulnerable women in that era.
Remember history, don't forget heroes.