"Huanglian Holy Mother" Lin Heier , was the leader of the red light organization during the Boxer Movement . Lin Heier's life is full of fog, and he has been mixed in history. So, how should we evaluate Lin Heier?
1. Lin Heier's life
Lin Heier was born in the late Qing Dynasty. It is said that he was born as a fisherman. Of course, there are also sayings that Lin Heier was selling skills with his father on the street since childhood. Although the two statements are somewhat contradictory, one thing is certain: that is, Lin Hei'er was born in a poor family.
In the late Qing Dynasty, Westerners walked sideways in China. In fact, we can not only know this detail through historical information, but even novel lovers can also learn about the situation of the late Qing society through the author's novels such as Tianxiaba Sing . (Note: In the novel by Tianxia Bachang, it was mentioned that Cui Laodao and Lin Heier had a conflict) And Westerners are not allowed to do evil in China. A vulnerable group like Lin Heier is naturally prone to Shanghai. Therefore, there is a saying that Lin Heier's father was beaten to death by foreigners, so a deep hatred formed between Lin Heier and foreigners.
In fact, there were many situations like Lin Heier at that time. It would be better for the people to burn incense and make wishes in the temple than to make more wishes in the late Qing Dynasty.
2, Boxer
In the Chinese folk, there has been a tradition of gathering power through secret sects since ancient times. This is the pattern from the Taipingdao Uprising in the late Eastern Han Dynasty to the God worship uprising in the late Daoguang period (that is, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement ). The courts of all dynasties were also very alert to secret sects. However, secret sects are often associated with folk beliefs. Therefore, no matter how the Ming and Qing dynasties suppressed it, the White Lotus Sect uprising that the Ming and Qing dynasties were still inevitable.
In fact, some historians believe that the Boxer Rebellion actually has a lot of White Lotus Sect components. In the late Qing Dynasty, the people faced suppression by the government and foreigners. In order to protect their own interests, many people participated in the Boxer Rebellion. Against this background, Lin Hei'er set up a hall in Tianjin to announce that she is the Virgin Mary of Huanglian. Unlike the Boxer Rebellion, Virgin Mary of Huanglian specializes in accepting women as disciples, and her organization is called " Red Light ".
red lights and the Boxer Rebellion's anti-imperialist movement aroused opposition from foreigners. The late Qing court also felt that the Boxer Rebellion and the red lights could be used, so the late Qing court instructed the Boxer Rebellion and the red lights to fight against the foreigners. The foreigners also used this as an excuse to organize the famous Eight-Nation Alliance .
Under the foreign guns and cannons of the Eight-Nation Alliance, the Empress Dowager and the Emperor of the late Qing Dynasty fled to Shaanxi one after another, and the Boxer Rebellion and the red lights were also killed by foreigners. In the chaos, Lin Heier's whereabouts are unknown: there are claims that they were killed by foreigners, and they were captured alive by foreigners, and then escorted to the West to make specimens. Of course, there are also claims that Lin Heier fled to Shandong and hid among the people.
In short, Lin Heier's whereabouts have become a historical mystery.
3, Resistance Spirit
Regarding the Boxer Rebellion and Red Light, many people believe that there are a large number of feudal remnants of the Boxer Rebellion and Red Light Light, and believe that the Boxer Rebellion and Red Light Light Light use superstitious means to gather strength, and this model is inevitable under the guns of foreigners. However, I personally think that we cannot make such arbitrary comments about Lin Heier, the Red Lantern, and the Boxer Rebellion.
In the late Qing society, in the face of oppression from foreigners and governments, the Boxer Rebellion and the red lights themselves represented the spirit of resistance. The members of the Boxer Rebellion and the red lights were mostly poor people. Due to the limitations of the times, these poor people naturally could not have the spirit of conforming to modern science. Therefore, they can only rely on their past experience of struggle - that is, through the means of secret sects to condense their strength and resist the oppression of foreigners. This is the inevitability of the limitations of the times.
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