The Xinhai Revolution refers to the national revolution that took place in the Chinese lunar calendar during the Xinhai year (the third year of the Qing Dynasty), that is, from 1911 to the beginning of 1912 AD, aiming to overthrow the qing dynasty's autocratic imperial system and establish a republican form of government.
In the summer of 1911, the Road Protection Movement broke out in Hunan Province, Hubei, Guangdong, Sichuan and other provinces, and the movement was particularly fierce in Sichuan Province. On September 25, Rong County became independent, becoming the first regime in all of China to break away from the Qing Dynasty, pushing the Road Protection Movement to a climax. On the evening of October 10, Zhao Bingkun, a revolutionary member of the Eighth Battalion of the New Army's Engineering Corps, fired the first shot of the Wuchang Uprising.
After the revolutionaries of Hanyang and Hankou captured Hanyang on the night of October 11 and October 12, respectively, and after the Hankou rebels took control of the three towns of Wuhan, the Hubei military government was established, and Li Yuanhong was elected as the governor of the country and changed the name of the country to the Republic of China. Within two months of the victory of the Wuchang Uprising, fifteen provinces, including Hunan and Guangdong, declared independence from the Qing government. On February 12, 1912, the Qing Dynasty issued an abdication edict.
The occurrence of the Xinhai Revolution was the inevitable result of the intensification of social contradictions in China and the stubborn struggle of the Chinese people in modern times. Politically and ideologically, it has brought a liberating effect to the Chinese people that cannot be underestimated. The modern national democratic revolution, which pioneered the full sense of the word, overthrew the absolute monarchy that had ruled China for several dry years, established a republican form of government, and ended the absolute monarchy. It has spread the concept of democracy and republicanism, greatly promoted the ideological emancipation of the Chinese nation, and promoted China's social change with great shock and influence.
The Xinhai Revolution toppled the emperor's throne and replaced the imperial autocracy of the feudal landlord class with a bourgeois democratic republican system, which is a historical progress. The overthrow of the emperor's throne shook the Chinese's worship of the imperial rule that seemed unchanged for two thousand years.
The Xinhai Revolution was a great ideological emancipation movement. The replacement of the imperial system with republican democracy is a remarkable turning point and achievement in China's history, and the ideological emancipation it has brought is unprecedented in history. The Xinhai Revolution created a completely new situation, and the overthrow of the concept of imperial power for more than two thousand years is, of course, a huge ideological emancipation!
The Xinhai Revolution opened the floodgates for China's historic progress in the 20th century. In the 20th century, China underwent earth-shaking changes, and the reason why such changes could occur was the prelude and floodgates opened by the Xinhai Revolution.
The Blood of the Xinhai Revolution created a modern national democratic revolution in the full sense, overthrowing the absolute monarchy that had ruled China for thousands of years, establishing a republican form of government, and ending the absolute monarchy. It has spread the concept of democracy and republicanism, greatly promoted the ideological emancipation of the Chinese nation, and promoted the Chinese social Ange with great shock and influence.