[QUOTE=Hendrik;948051]Robert,
You see, until we dig this reality of 1850 up, most people are thinking the 1644 anti Qing at the falling of Ming dynasty incident.
You see these experience of 1850’s starting with the Opinium war and wars after wars within a sixteen years perior or so must be very tragedy and sad, so deep the grief that the the martial artists choose to forget or leave a blank in the mind. It seems that no one wants to remember. May be because they all lost after millions of people die ? All the heros such She DA-kai of Taiping, the Lee Man-Mau, either executed or sick and die in the revolution, most of the elite Chinese in the south wipe out, clean.
The vanishing of the elite chinese at that time also setting up for the born of the modern China with big western influence. perhaps this is china’s karma, one needs to clean the tea pot before making new type of tea.
I have thought lately,
Perhaps, What I did to reveal all of these facts are wrong. This is because sometimes it is better for others to live within their sweet dream.
Life is just an illusive dream anyway. So why not let those love sweet dream to continous dream on? at least give that will give them some future hope and they will feel more meaningful to live.
So, perhaps this is the end of this facing of reality posts. for most would not be able to take it and not neccessary needed to take it.[/QUOTE]
Nothing is right or wrong. We can look back know and see what happened.
I think the Qing oppressed the Southerners and caused a great deal of resentment. When the uprising failed, anguish and suffering were the norm. Death by executions and torture were amongst means of extracting information from the lowly to get at the leaders. The stories became convoluted over time, giving rise to many myths, and misconceptions. That was a painful era. Also, many put faith in Hong Xiuchuan to lead them. However, he was crazy - he declared was God’s Chinese son and Jesus’ brother, and freely interpreted the Bible for his own use. Tai Ping Tian Guo, also incorrectly referred to as a “Christian” uprising…"Heavenly Great Peace Kingdom it was not.
The period in which Wong Wah Bao and Leung Yee Tai lived in, the Opera was banned. Leung Jan allegedly took care of them. After the ban was lifted, Wong Wah Bao went back to the Opera. Others scattered…leaving the seeds of WCK to be eventually passed to us.
It was a painful story in China’s past.
