The Boxers, a group that originated in Shandong out of the hatred towards the foreginers and little care from the government, started to rise up, deserving a bad reputation for what they’ve caused and done.The foreigners started landing in Shanxi, building churches on their quest to convert the Chinese into Christians, the same religious party they believe in, and is only faced with the metal fists of The Boxers. They assumed that natural disasters had occurred because of the building of churches. They turned onto the foreigners burning down churches, harming anyone, even the innocent, along their way. “Farmers genuinely believed that the Christians had so displeased the gods that the entire region was being punished with drought.” (China’s Boxer Rebellion, Szczepanski), it is easily inferred that the people in Shandong blamed all the bad luck that happened to them onto the foreigners. Their hatred soon led to chaos, resulting in the governor of Shandong, Yuan- ShiKai to push them out, calling for soldiers to achieve his goal, leaving Shandong, they could only move north, where the foreigners have just started to produce value. Killing any foreigners along the way, blowing up the walls of the French legation leading to rebuilt version you see nowadays. At last, when the foreigners finally made their choice to go through the water gate, the Chinese fought back, and although their goal was to save all of the Chinese Christians that were innocently closed up by the Boxers, up to 100,000 people died, and 30,000 consists of Chinese Christians, showing how much harm the Boxers did to all sides.

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