Cixi sent 120 children to study in the United States that year, why did only 94 return?

Although Cixi also sent 120 children to study in the United States, some of them died in the middle of the process because of the great pressure of studying, or because they did not adapt to the foreign environment. Some children managed to resist the pressure of the imperial court and continued to stay in the United States to complete their studies, while others were deported early for other reasons, so only 94 people were eventually recalled. <>

In fact, in the late Qing Dynasty, the imperial court also began to think about using some advanced technologies from the West to save the domestic crisis. So when Cixi took power, she began to prepare for studying in the United States, but the original plan was to recruit the first batch of children to study in the United States in Shanghai, and the plan was to recruit 30 children to study abroad. However, at that time, many people thought that China's Four Books and Five Classics were orthodox, and many people thought that studying abroad was a shameful thing, so it was difficult to get together 30 places here in Shanghai, and most of the children's parents were reluctant to send their children abroad.

Later, after these first batch of children came abroad, they also slowly learned about some advanced technologies and relatively open-minded foreign countries. Many of these children are also slowly "Westernized", they will fall in love with American girls, and they will also play football with young American boys, so after living in the United States for a long time, many people slowly feel that the United States is much better than the Qing Dynasty. But after the Qing Dynasty found out about this situation, it couldn't wait to recall the 120 children, but unfortunately only 94 people were recalled in the end.

After the 94 people were recalled in a hurry, the Qing court also arranged some positions indiscriminately, for example, the original prodigy Zhan Tianyou, obviously studied engineering in the United States, but after returning to China, he let him teach English directly, so we can also see from this point that the late Qing Dynasty was indeed decaying, even with advanced technology, it is difficult to save.

Some people were in poor health, could not withstand the long journey and the water and soil, and died.

Some children who are not adjusting to life in the United States and who are not disciplined are deported home early.

Some insisted on staying in the United States.

Because the people who did not come back stayed in the United States, and the treatment given by the United States was much better than at home, they did not want to return to China.

The rest of the people settled in the United States, because the material conditions in the United States were very good at that time.

On the way, some children unfortunately died, and some did not want to return after completing their studies in the United States, so 94 people returned to China.

Because there are many children who have gone to foreign countries and have not adapted to the soil, and a small number of children have fallen ill and died, I think it is a pity.

Cixi once sent 120 children to study in the United States, but only 94 came back in the end, most likely because some settled there, and some felt that the country was hopeless, and it would be a dead end to return.

Name a few names. Zhan Tianyou, a railway engineer, Deng Shichang, who died in the First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle, Tang Guoan, the first president of Tsinghua University, Cai Shaoji, president of Peiyang University, Tang Shaoyi, premier of the early Republic of China, and Liang Dunyan, chief of transportation.

These 120 children are very good, and most of them were born into literati families and were gifted with intelligence.

Very good, they were selected by Cixi thousands of people. There's a lot going on.

The main reason why children studying in the United States are reluctant to return to China is that their minds are gradually Westernized, and they do not want to return to the decaying Qing Dynasty at that time, but want to settle in a foreign country through their own knowledge.

Because at that time, many people felt that the Qing Dynasty was too poor and did not return to China, and these people were white-eyed wolves.

It is said that these children who go to the United States to study are not well adapted abroad, so many of them return to China early.

In fact, it is because these children have been very affected abroad, and they think that their country is too rotten, and many people are reluctant to come back.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, 120 young children went to study in the United States, and only 94 of them came back because some of them died of illness after arriving in the United States, and some did not want to come back.

It was a harsh environment. A small percentage died. A small part remained in the United States.

Cixi once sent 120 children to study abroad, but in the end, only 94 returned, and most of the remaining international students died or chose to stay abroad to be ordinary people. After many wars in the Qing Dynasty, the Empress Dowager Cixi also knew about China's backwardness, when she approved of the Westernization Movement carried out by Li Hongzhang of Zeng Guofan, and once sent 120 children to study advanced technology abroad, in order to train these 120 students, she also specially sent some teachers, in order to let these children learn foreign culture at the same time can not forget their roots.

When they were studying abroad, they brought the teachers of the Qing Dynasty, in fact, they often taught these children the idea of serving the country loyally and preventing them from defecting. And because these children are very young, they are very much influenced by the minds of these people. However, during the period when they went to learn advanced technology, they were also forcibly recalled by Qing **, and only ninety-four of the 120 people who studied abroad returned safely.

There are many reasons why those who are left do not return. Most of them are because they are not used to foreign countries, and their living habits have conflicts with foreign countries, resulting in their own discomfort and waiting for them to die in other places, and some of them die of fatigue due to too much pressure and fatigue. At that time, Qing ** spent a lot of material and financial resources to send them out, so the requirements for them must be very strict, and in an unfamiliar environment with such strict examination requirements, they felt too stressed and died of exhaustion.

There are also some people who feel that what they have learned is very advanced, and they don't want to go back to China, because China was too backward at that time.

Most of the 94 students who returned made significant contributions to China's modernization. So it can be said that the Empress Dowager Cixi did not cultivate them in vain.

The rest may have chosen to stay in a foreign country, or have died, so only 94 people have returned.

Some of the remaining people stayed in the local area, and some died of illness on the road, and the end was very miserable.

Some people must have died on the way, and some people felt that the Qing Dynasty was too backward after broadening their horizons, and they would no longer return to China, so it was not bad to be able to come back 94 people.

The rest of the people may be obsessed with life abroad, so they stay and live abroad, or they may die abroad.

120 people went out, 94 returned, and the rest either stayed abroad or died in other places.

I think the rest of us should be in danger, or settle in another country, marry and have children, and then don't come back.

Some of them died, and some of them were unwilling to return to the Qing Dynasty after accepting the new ideas, and they hid when they were recalled. It is worth mentioning that those children who did not return to the Qing Dynasty have never heard their names again, and they must have basically been oblivious.

Some people may not want to come back and want to stay abroad, and some people may be missing and cannot be contacted.