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Is Christmas really related to Eight-Nation Alliance's invasion of China? Or hype?
It doesn't matter. Christmas existed a long time ago, long before Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China, so the two have nothing to do with each other. ?

In 336 BC, the Roman church began to celebrate this festival on1February 25th. 1February 25th was originally the birthday of the sun god stipulated by the Roman Empire. Some people think that this day is chosen to celebrate Christmas because Christians believe that Jesus is the just and eternal sun.

Eight-Nation Alliance's war of aggression against China took place on May 28th, A.D. 1900 (the 26th year of Guangxu reign of Qing Dynasty). It was an armed aggression war against the Qing Empire, which was composed of eight major countries, namely, the British Empire, the United States of America, the Third Republic of France, the German Empire, the Russian Empire, the Great Japanese Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Kingdom of Italy.

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/kloc-in the spring of 0/900, the Boxer Rebellion became the fuse of Eight-Nation Alliance's war of aggression against China. On this pretext, Eight-Nation Alliance carved up and plundered the Qing Empire in the name of suppressing the Boxer Rebellion.

The total number of troops invading China is about 50 thousand, which is well-equipped and powerful. 1August 4, 900 14, Beijing completely fell. Wherever Eight-Nation Alliance went, there were killings, arson, rape and looting, and countless treasures were stolen and looted from the Forbidden City, Zhongnanhai and the Summer Palace. Among them, the famous garden of thousands of gardens, Yuanmingyuan, was looted again after the British and French allied forces and eventually became a ruin.

Eight-Nation Alliance Commander-in-Chief Wadesi also admitted in his later Notes on Wadesi Boxing Disorder that the details of all the damage and robbery suffered by China this time will never be found out, but it will be extremely significant. 190 1 year, on September 7th, China was completely reduced to a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society as a result of the signing of the "Xin Chou Treaty", which brought unprecedented and painful disasters to the country and people at that time.