What is the truth about the Wuxu Change, and how do you view the Wuxu Change?

To put it mildly, a group of angry young people in the Qing Dynasty led a chaotic and fierce so-called reform of the law, aimed at changing the law but lacked connotation in form, aimed at strengthening the country but could not establish a new system, aimed at rectifying the rule of officials but only knew how to kill and exile without knowing compromise and unity, and had no real strength but were clamoring for a quiet so-called reform in the world. They are the forerunners of constitutionalism, the pioneers of the historical era, and patriots, who deserve admiration and admiration. However, the Wuxu Reform Law is too naïve, and the eagerness to complete the constitutional system that has evolved in the West for more than 100 years in one fell swoop is equivalent to recreating a social structure without any substantive political and economic basis, and does not pay attention to social influences, and often makes highly targeted remarks in public, touching the interests of too many people, offending too many people in power, and even their supporters at the beginning end up turning against them.

This is not a change of law, but a revolution, but at the same time they have no power of their own, and the final defeat is inevitable. For example, if China in the late Qing Dynasty was like a pool of stinky stagnant water, then the original intention of the Wuxu Reform Method was to dig a few openings without changing the original outline of the pool, let it connect with the external current, slowly make it flow active, and finally let it evolve into a raging river; But in reality, they quickly dug up almost the entire embankment around the pond and dug an artificial channel to limit the pond from becoming a river – far more than China could afford at the time.

I am not a supporter of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and in fact I do not recognize the history of the Qing Dynasty as part of Chinese history. However, I personally believe that the original intention of the Wuxu reform is good, but the means are too urgent, the leaders are limited by the lack of vision of the times, and the whole reform is divorced from reality and lacks the support of various forces, so its failure is not surprising. This movement can be called the forerunner of China's efforts to become stronger, but it is limited to the forerunners.

Revolutionary forerunner, the introduction of a capitalist constitutional monarchy. It can only be said that the timing is not right, and it is not ladylike to meet people.

With some advanced ideas and seeing the precedent of Japan's successful reform of the law, some advanced personages proposed to change the law, but in reality, China's national conditions cannot adapt to the reform at all, and what China needs is a wedge-shaped revolution.

The emperor wants to be pro-government and wants to seize power. Actually, these angry youths, alas, are quite noble in spirit, and their practices are too stupid. It is said that Cixi said something like this: If you want to change the law, why don't you look for me?

I can't figure out which of my arms and thighs are thick!

From June to September 21, 1898, the bourgeois reformists with Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao as the main leading figures advocated the political reform movement of learning from the West, advocating science and culture, reforming the political and educational systems, and developing agriculture, industry, and commerce through Emperor Guangxu. On September 21, 1898, the Empress Dowager Cixi and others launched a coup d'état, Emperor Guangxu was imprisoned in Yingtai, Zhongnanhai, Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao of the reform faction fled to France and Japan respectively, Tan Sitong, Kang Guangren, Lin Xu, Yang Shenxiu, Yang Rui, and Liu Guangdi, a total of 6 people were killed, and the reform failed, which lasted 103 days. The 100-day Restoration is the law of change.

The Wuxu Reform Law was an important political reform in China's modern history, and it was also an ideological enlightenment movement, which promoted the emancipation of the mind, played an important role in promoting social progress, ideological and cultural development, and promoting the progress of modern Chinese society.

The meaning of the change. The Wuxu Reform was an event of great significance in China's modern history, and it was a bourgeois reform movement and an initial attempt by the bourgeoisie to reform the social system. The reformers tried to establish a bourgeois constitutional monarchy politically. The economic development of national capitalism is in line with the trend of historical development.

It is a patriotic political movement. At a time when the national crisis was intensifying, the reformers carried out extensive propaganda and agitation with the goal of changing the law and trying to make the country strong and save the country from survival, hoping that through reform, China would move toward independence, democracy, and prosperity, so as to get rid of the aggression of the imperialist powers, show strong patriotic enthusiasm, and arouse the people's patriotic thinking and national consciousness. The Wuxu Reform Law was also the liberation of an ideological trend in modern China.

The bourgeois restorationists advocated new learning and advocated the revitalization of people's rights, fiercely attacked feudal thought, opened the way for the vigorous rise of the ideological enlightenment movement in modern thought, and promoted the awakening of the Chinese people. The legacy of the Reform Movement is many, such as emancipating the mind, changing ideas, establishing associations, establishing schools, founding newspapers and periodicals, advocating women's education, and changing customs. It has also become a valuable asset in the history of the development of Chinese civilization.

The Wuxu Reform was also an ideological enlightenment movement. The reformists advocated new learning, criticized the old learning, and focused on propagating the "rejuvenation of the people's rights," which greatly enhanced the whole society's awareness of democracy and participation in politics. Since then, democracy has become a surging trend of social thought, which has greatly changed the face of China's ideological and cultural circles.

He said that the new culture of the Chinese bourgeoisie was also initially established during the period of the Wuxu Restoration Movement and in the years that followed. New bourgeois scholarship, philosophy, history, economics, and literary theory have sprouted, and "poetry revolution", "stylistic revolution", "** world revolution", "drama reform" and so on have arisen one after another, and the new bourgeois culture, both in content and form, has begun to become the mainstream of modern Chinese culture.

1. The Historical Significance of the Pentecostal Reform Law.

1) The bourgeois reform movement conforms to the trend of China's historical development and is of progressive significance.

2) The patriotic salvation movement has stimulated the people's patriotic thoughts and national consciousness.

3) The first trend of ideological emancipation in modern China. It has played an ideological enlightenment role in society and promoted the awakening of the Chinese people.

2. Reasons for the failure of the Pentecostal Method.

Mainly due to:

1.The weakness and compromise of the bourgeois reformers, lacking the courage to oppose imperialism and feudalism, adopted only reformist methods, pinned their illusions on the feudal reactionary forces and the powers, distanced themselves from the masses and feared them, and thus they did not win the support of the masses and were defeated.

2.At the same time, the diehards are very strong, and the Western capitalist countries do not want China to embark on the road of independent development of capitalism. As a result, Chinese and foreign reactionary forces jointly strangled the reform movement.

3.In the final analysis, it is determined by the level of capitalist development in China, which has a very low level of capitalist development, a weak economic foundation, and a weak bourgeois force. The strength of the bourgeoisie was insufficient to contend with the feudal forces, and this was the fundamental reason for the failure of the Wuxu Reform.

Facts have proved that in semi-colonial and semi-feudal China, the road of bourgeois reform does not work.