Talk about something else.
Not quite a comic book fan, but these days after the first season of “Wanda and Vision”, always feel that the Marvel heroine Wanda’s powers are very familiar, poor memory, really can not remember where to see. Yesterday, I saw a video screen in the circle, a woman was protesting something and was finally taken away.
At that moment for some reason suddenly remembered, the scarlet witch Wanda’s powers, the original our ancestors once had, and not only one, is an all-female group. Their psychic abilities, if all play out, absolutely can make Marvel silent, DC tears.
Do not believe and see.
One, only a few days of military training, holding a red fan an incitement, you can physically soar, the intention to the body to.
Second, the red folding fan force a wave, the enemy’s artillery immediately mute, while warships, barracks, etc. will spontaneously combust; red light towards where a throw, where is a sea of fire, a combination of iron fan princess and red child mother and son of God.
Third, the organization’s senior will be the spirit out of body art, people standing still, you can take the head of the foreign general in a thousand miles away, the whole beheading operation, not afraid of any enemy weapons, because their spirit can remove the screws on the cannon, so that the cannon into a pile of scrap metal.
Fourth, the highest level of spells: can make magic from the gods to borrow the astral wind, the wind to help the fire, the enemy can be burned to ashes in an instant.
I believe you have guessed that this organization, is a rural non-mainstream name of the “Red Lantern”, that is, the famous anti-imperialist patriotic vanguard to help the Qing dynasty – the Boxer Rebellion directly led by the purely female military forces.
The Boxer Rebellion started out as a cult in the eyes of the Qing court, with the initial slogan “Against the Qing Dynasty and Restoring the Ming Dynasty”, but was later changed to “To Sweep Away the Qing Dynasty and Destroy the Foreigners”, with zero tolerance from the Qing court. Therefore, for a period of Time, the Boxer Rebellion was under siege.
At the end of May 1900, Empress Dowager Cixi suddenly rose up and declared war on eleven countries, and realizing that the Boxer Rebellion could be used, she rewarded the Boxer Rebellion with hundreds of thousands of taels of silver from the national treasury and ordered them to cooperate with the imperial court, attacking the concessions in Tianjin and besieging the embassies in Beijing to build a positive anti-imperialist and patriotic organization.
The Boxers were rewarded by the court and changed their revolutionary slogan to “Support the Qing Dynasty and Destroy the Foreigners”, burned churches, attacked embassies, and burned ships and smashed trains. From then on, “opening the door to the bandits” became the Qing dynasty’s foreign policy.
The founder of the Red Lantern was a woman named Lin Heier. According to historical sources, Lin came from a boat Family, ran in the jungle and sold art, and was forced to work as a prostitute, suffering from the hardships of the lower class. Later, her husband was arrested after a conflict with the foreigners and died in prison after being beaten, which made Lin Heier hate the foreigners.
But you have to say that she loves the Qing Dynasty, I do not believe it. Because, although her husband was in conflict with the foreigners, it was the Manchu government that wanted to please the foreigners that killed him.
In 1900, the Boxer Rebellion movement burned from Beijing to Tianjin, the leader Zhang Decheng set up a general altar in Tianjin, Lin Heier saw the opportunity to turn over a new leaf, so she set up an altar on a ship to respond, gathered some women of the lower class like her, and established the “Red Lantern Light”, directly under the leadership of Zhang Decheng, and became a peripheral female military organization of the Boxer Rebellion.
After the creation of the Red Lantern Light, Lin Heier called herself the “Holy Mother of the Yellow Lotus” (coincidentally, the most revered goddess A-Ma of the coast of Fujian and Guangdong to Taiwan was originally named Lin Mo Niang). From prostitute to Madonna, it is the leap from goddess to goddess. Fortunately, her legal name is “Yellow Lotus”, if it were White Lotus, it would be too much of a coincidence.
Lin Heier rules, join the red light, must be twelve to eighteen years old unmarried virgin, because the virgin can practice divine power; older married women, join the blue light; forty years old and above, join the green light, widows are classified as black light.
You see, the appearance of the black widow, we are at least 50 years earlier than Marvel.
Finally, there is a casserole called casserole photo – don’t laugh, no typo, is the casserole photo (also as casserole photo). According to the “Qing Dynasty Wild History – Volume 3 – Qing Dynasty History” contains.
There is also a casserole photo, to entertain the gods group, people hold a pot, when the fist people war, analysis of the salary of the Xi rice, cooking rice for Food. Sand pot only like a giant bowl, said rice hundred people not exhausted. This group are also beggars, along the door to ask for rice to help the army, no dare to refuse.
It seems that the casserole is responsible for military supplies and cooking, the Boxer Rebellion to fight, they are responsible for cooking, no rice, door to door to find the people want rice, of course, “no dare to refuse” – you imagine the black widow to your Home to ask for a few pounds of rice, you dare to refuse?
These top-down hierarchical organizations were distinguished by the color of their attire, and their quarters were divided into red-light, blue-light, green-light, black-light, and casserole zones.
The famous Marxist historian, one of the important founders of Chinese Marxist historical science, and outstanding educator (please forgive me for having to copy so much) Jian Bozan, who has specialized in the Boxer Rebellion movement, described the red-light shining practice scene in his book “The Boxer Rebellion” thus.
The Red Lantern, are selected for the girl who is not married. The room is dedicated to Jiu Kui Daoist, with a bronze plate to store water in front of the god, around the line called “flying” endlessly. He said that he could fly in the air after practicing for 48 days.
Practice while running in a circle with the idol as the center, while the mouth to shout “fly”, can sing “I want to fly higher” (do not know whether to wear leather pants), it is said to practice enough forty-eight days will be able to fly.
What if you can’t fly? That should be the heart is not sincere so the spell can not be.
Lin Heier has traveled the world and sold art, good at performing supernormal capabilities. She often sent her men to the hardware store to buy screws for backup, when she sat in the sedan chair claiming that her spirit out of the body, to the foreigners on the cannon screw down, the curtain lifted, she came out of the sedan chair, clutching a small packet of screws, saying that this is her spirit just removed from the foreign cannon.
Seeing is believing, the melon crowd has kneeled down, believing that she has unique psychic powers.
In order to make more people believe in the power of the red light, to improve the confidence and morale of the members of the group, Lin Heier also created a “corporate Culture” without teacher. For example, the establishment of the “stomp city” system, every ten days or so to lead all the members of the regiment to go out and run around the resident village, while running, playing swords, shouting slogans; there is a called “out of the wind”, is to practice in public for the Gua crowd to see, like today’s urban and rural areas hair salon Tony’s morning and evening exercises.
Lin Heier mastered some folk remedies, know a little bit of medical science, claiming that the use of incense ash can cure all diseases, as for the effect of how, “the Qing dynasty wild history of the great view” said, Lin Heier’s boat stopped outside the north gate of Tianjin, “boxing bandits wounded lift boat side, Fu to incense ash, a few days and maggots out of the place”.
Battlefield wounded Boxer folk, was carried to the side of Lin Heier’s boat, she will use incense ash to wipe their wounds, a few days later …… maggots crawled out.
Spiritual or not, only maggots know.
In just two months, the Red Lantern members in addition to direct participation in the war, but also responsible for medical care, intelligence gathering, as well as publicity and Education, to the male members of the Boxer Rebellion spiritual comfort, etc..
With the red light, every battle, the Boxer Rebellion let these sisters rush to the forefront, using their positive energy to make the enemy not give up an inch of grass.
How is the battle record? According to Red Lantern, they had sent hundreds of people to the Western countries to set fire, “now the eighteen foreign countries have been destroyed sixteen countries”.
It seems that those who have not been destroyed more than 100 other “foreign countries”, should thank these Chinese girls did not learn world geography.
The Boxer Rebellion was recognized by the Qing court in its heyday, and the red light rose to the top of the boat. The pinnacle of Lin Heier’s Life should be the day when she was personally welcomed into the official office by the Governor of Zhili, Yu Lu. Wearing a court dress, Yulu knelt down and kowtowed to her nine times, and she didn’t move her body, really reserved like a holy mother.
She was given two large banners with the inscription “Our Lady of the Yellow Lotus”, which was the same as being certified as a “double yellow lotus” and not having to worry about the Red Lantern Light being exterminated as an “illegal organization”.
From then on, Lin Heier traveled with great authority, riding in a palanquin, and there were several teams of boxers with foreign guns to open the way for her (I can’t figure out why she would use foreign guns when she hated foreigners so much and had divine power to protect her body).
In “The Great View of the Wild Histories of the Qing Dynasty”, it is written that Lin Heil’s scene was like this: “The Holy Mother sat in the closet of the gods, with a yellow mantle, incense and candles, and all the people worshipped. The Boxer Rebellion (II), edited by the Chinese Historical Society, also says that when she appeared on the street, “the people burned incense and knelt down to receive her, not daring to look up, and called her an immortal nun, and when the boxer bandits met her, they also knelt down by the road” (Shanghai People’s Publishing House 1957).
I don’t know if this is considered the beginning of Chinese feminism.
So, what happened to Lin Heier?
In June and July of 1900, when the Eight-Power Allied Forces were advancing on Tianjin, Lin Heier led the Red Lantern Light and Zhang Decheng’s General Temple to join forces and block the Eight-Power Allied Forces at the Old Dragon Head Station and Zizhu Lin. This battle, the Boxer Rebellion and the Red Lantern all the magic power all failure, in front of the foreign guns and foreign artillery casualties heavy.
According to “The Great History of the Qing Dynasty”, finally, Lin Heier “the city fell and fled”, but she never expected that “the boxer bandits scattered as thieves, robbed the Virgin Mary in the boat, the trial was also the Virgin Mary, bound and presented to the capital government, and received a heavy reward”.
When Tianjin fell, Lin Heier tried to run away, but she was caught on the boat by those boxers who had become thieves, and was identified and presented to the Tianjin Metropolitan Yamen (the temporary ruling body of the Eight-Power Allied Forces), and was rewarded heavily.
After that, some folk said that she was publicly executed, some said that she finally escaped, etc. Most bizarrely, it was said that her body was taken abroad by the Eight-Power Allied Forces and made into a specimen for people to visit. The “Great View of the Wild History of the Qing Dynasty” also quoted: “Or cloud: Westerners carried her to Europe.”
The word “or cloud” means “some people said”, but not the corpse. As for the other members of the organization, the end is also very saddening, “and the red light shine all resume their residence, most of them become prostitutes. Back home, most returned to their old jobs.
Another relatively reliable account comes from an article in the “Tianjin Wei – Family Spring and Autumn” on page 11 of the “Tonight Newspaper” on July 13, 2020, entitled “The true face of the “Yellow Lotus Virgin” of the Red Lantern”, which says.
Tianjin literature and history scholar Zhang Cheng and others found that among the precious photos taken by the former owner of the U.S. business Yichang Foreign Affairs Company, Chandler, during the Gengzi period, one was taken by the Boxer Rebellion after the capture of the leader of the Red Lantern Light, the “Yellow Lotus Virgin” by the Eight-Power Allied Forces. This also confirms the authenticity of the photo of “Our Lady of the Yellow Lotus” that was circulated before.
An excerpt about the end of Lin Heier is as follows.
According to “1900: A French Naval Officer Meets Two Boxer Women”, “On the day the war broke up, the Allied forces surrounded the ship in close quarters. Seeing the urgency of the matter, the mother and daughter threw themselves into the river together, and were then recovered by the Allied forces, and it took a long time to revive the sisters, while their mother did not wake up.”
Lin Heier and her sister were arrested, and according to Xin Shuyin, “They were imprisoned in the capital court and subjected to the insults and ravages of the beasts, but they never succumbed.” It is easy to think of this outcome for a pair of young girls who fell into the hands of the beasts. But in fact they were displayed as trophies, and a steady stream of people came to see them, for which the Metropolitan Government sent an old sister to take care of them.
On April 17, 1901, the Metropolitan Government authorized the sisters to be sent to Shanghai to live in the orphanage of the Xujiahui Church in Shanghai. Father Clay, who was always concerned for their safety, informed Shanghai on July 25 that the Metropolitan Office was about to be dissolved and handed the sisters over to the Chinese authorities. However, the Qing court had decreed: “Anyone found guilty of gathering people to perform tricks, recite incantations, dance with gods, or falsely claim that the red light is illuminated, and other evil arts, should be severely arrested and sent to the Ministry of Justice for trial.” Since then, the two sisters have not been heard from.
The last sentence written by Chandler on the back of the photo also reads, “I have never heard of these girls after the Chinese took over power from the Metropolitan Government.”
It seems that Lin Heier was not taken by the “boxer bandits” to receive a reward, but was captured along with her sister by the allied forces who surrounded the ship and then displayed them as trophies, but also ensured their lives until the disbanding of the Dudu Yamen, when the Lin Heier sisters were sent to a church in Shanghai and finally handed over to the Qing authorities, and only then “whereabouts unknown”. What this means, think for yourself.
And the prevailing history textbooks, referring to the downfall of the Boxers and Red Lanterns, have this sentence: “Later, as the Qing government compromised and surrendered to imperialism, it took the opportunity to pinch the Boxers and made the Boxers suffer heavy casualties ……”
I can only say that the Qing government is too bad.
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