义和团运动是中国近代史上以农民为主体的一次反帝爱国运动。中国人民在这次斗争中,以大刀、长矛抵抗那以洋枪洋炮装备起来的八国联军,显示了中国人民决不屈服的意志。虽然这个运动失败了,但是它震动了中外反动派,并粉碎了侵略者瓜分中国的迷梦。中国人民就以这种不畏强暴、敢于斗争的英雄气概,揭开了二十世纪亚洲人民反帝革命大风暴的序幕,成为“五十年后中国人民伟大胜利的奠基石之一”。解放以来,我国史学界大力开展了对义和团的调查研究和讨论,其中关于义和团的“扶清灭洋”口号,是讨论的重要问题之一。一般地说,在这个问题上有下述三种意见:一是义和团被清政府欺骗利用所提出的口号:二是财主、绅士、举人等伪义和团为了保护其财产、名 The Boxer Rebellion is a patriotic anti-imperialist movement with peasants as its main body in modern Chinese history. In the course of this struggle, the Chinese people resisted the eight-nation coalition forces that were armed with their foreign guns and guns, demonstrating the Chinese people’s will to yield to their will. Although this movement failed, it shaken the Chinese and foreign reactionaries and shattered the dream of the invaders in carving China. Taking this heroic spirit of defying rape and daring to struggle, the Chinese people have opened the curtain of the storm of anti-imperialist revolution in Asia in the twentieth century and become one of the cornerstones of the “great victory of the Chinese people 50 years from now.” Since the liberation, China’s historians have carried out investigations and studies on the Boxers. Among them, the slogan of “helping the Qing and eliminating the Yang” set by the Boxers is one of the important issues for discussion. Generally speaking, there are three opinions on this issue: First, the Boxers were deceived and exploited by the Qing government to use the slogan: Second, the plutocracy, the gentleman, the lord, etc. In order to protect their property,