Ceding Taiwan is an eternal shame and pain for the Chinese nation. The smoke, shouts and tears of that year have traveled through time and space, and they are still vividly remembered today. By ceding Taiwan, opening ports, and huge indemnities... The aggressors, relying on the profits of their ships and cannons, set off the most shameless frenzy of division in the land of mankind, and the corrupt, cowardly, and incompetent Qing government could only satisfy the aggressors' desires with unequal treaties and indemnities for cutting land again and again. The land of Shenzhou is in turmoil, and the Chinese nation is at an important juncture of life and death.
Japan, which had invaded Taiwan in the late 16th century without success, did not remain outside this frenzy of aggression, and in 1894 it launched the Sino-Japanese War aimed at annexing Korea and invading China. The one-year war not only deprived the Qing Dynasty of the elaborate Beiyang Fleet, but also left taiwan from the motherland for half a century. Under the obscenity and threat of the aggressor's arbitrary clauses of "only two sentences are allowed and not allowed", in the threat and intimidation of restarting the war if the contract is not signed.
On April 17, 1895, the decadent and backward Qing court signed the Treaty of Maguan with Japan, which included: China recognized the independence of Korea; ceded the island of Taiwan and its affiliated islands, the Penghu Archipelago and the Liaodong Peninsula to Japan; compensated Japan with 200 million taels of silver; opened Shashi, Chongqing, Suzhou, and Hangzhou as treaty ports; and allowed the Japanese to open factories at treaty ports. Taiwan, which has been China's territory since ancient times, has since "ceded to Japan."
When the news came, the whole country was shocked. The Chinese nation mourned, angered, and cried out for the cession of Taiwan and the signing of the "Maguan Treaty": In Beijing, the officials who were actively engaged in the main battle wrote letters of resistance one after another, and the people "feared people's feelings, ran away and sweated, and turned to tell each other"; people in various provinces who were taking the exam in Beijing rushed to shout, "to the point of weeping and weeping", indignantly "writing on the bus".
In Taiwan, people gathered in the city, night and day, crying in the four fields, the people of Taipei "stirred up righteous indignation, all united in one heart", sounded the gong to strike the market, handed the blood letter to the Inspector of Taiwan, and wished to "swear to die and keep the royal palace"...
It was a spring soaked in blood and tears, a day of humiliation that all the sons and daughters of China will never forget: April 17, 1895, the day of the signing of the Treaty of Maguan. A paper treaty is full of shame and pain, and it records all the helplessness and indignation of the Chinese nation in that tragic era; the cession of Taiwan is even more a national disaster and catastrophe, and it reminds the sons and daughters of china that the Chinese nation has reached a dangerous moment of subjugation and extinction.
Grief and indignation converged into resistance, and blood spilled on the land. The history of Taiwan's partition and occupation is the history of the Taiwan people's indomitable struggle. The Chinese nation has never been a nation willing to yield, and the Chinese people have never been a people who are afraid of power. Groups of benevolent people have gone forward to explore the road to a rich country and a strong people. The cession of Taiwan is like a thunderclap that has aroused a magnificent struggle against Taiwan and occupation in the land of China.
The anti-Japanese rebels on the island of Taiwan rose up one after another, and the echoes of the mainland of the motherland resounded throughout the north and south. Opposing cession and resisting the Japanese, the Taiwan compatriots wrote a tragic history with blood: in June 1895, the Japanese army launched a fierce attack on Keelung, and the defenders stubbornly resisted, and finally fell due to the disparity in strength; in July, the Japanese army invaded Hsinchu, and the rebels resisted to the death, fighting until the food was cut off. After the fall of Hsinchu, the rebels launched three large-scale counteroffensives, successively engaged in more than 20 battles, holding the Japanese army back for a month; in August, the rebels fought fiercely with the Japanese army in Dajia Creek for a day, the Japanese army fell into the water, the corpses were piled up, and many were captured; in September, more than 3,000 rebels and the Japanese army fought a bloody battle at Bagua Mountain, killing more than a thousand Japanese soldiers, and the casualties of the rebel soldiers were exhausted; in October, the rebels and the Japanese army launched a bloody alley battle in Chiayi City, "with extremely heavy casualties". The leader of the rebel army, Xu Jun, was seriously wounded and shouted "The great husband died for the country, but there is no regret", and made a heroic sacrifice; in the same month, the rebel army, which had run out of foreign aid, ran out of grain, and was extremely hungry, held Tainan for several days and killed countless enemies; in mid-November, the Japanese army had just announced that "the island was all pacified", and the old department of the rebel army rose up again, shouting "expel the slaves and restore China", firing the first shot against Japanese colonial rule after the fall of Taiwan... History engraves the names of these heroic spirits who have shed their youth and blood for Taiwan and for the land: Xu Jun, Jiang Shaozu, Wu Tangxing, Hu Jiayou, Jiang Guohui, Su Li, Huang Niangsheng...
Despite the brutal repression, the resistance of the People of Taiwan has never stopped. From 1907 to 1915 alone, there were 12 anti-colonial uprisings throughout Taiwan. In order to suppress the anti-Japanese struggle, the Japanese colonialists carried out a frenzied massacre of Taiwanese resistance fighters. The "Xilai'an Uprising" of 1915 was the largest and most tragic event in the early 20th century of the Taiwan People's Anti-Japanese Armed Rebellion. After the defeat of the anti-Japanese struggle in Xilai'an, the Japanese colonialists lured the Taiwanese people into the barren forest in the name of centralized sermons, made them feel in the trenches, and then massacred them en masse and buried them in the ditches, creating the appalling "Massacre of the Year of the Baba Dynasty."
According to incomplete statistics, during the 50 years of Japanese colonial Taiwan, inhuman Japanese invaders brutally killed hundreds of thousands of Taiwanese people, and an average of 1 in 6 Taiwanese died under the knife of the devil. The crimes committed by the Japanese colonialists in Taiwan are too numerous to describe, and the blood debts owed to the people of Taiwan cannot be paid off.