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The Red Lanterns were the women's fighting groups organized by village women who were not allowed to join the men's groups during the Boxer Uprising of 1900. Villagers said these women had supernatural powers and were called upon to perform tasks which the male Boxers could not. ==Background== Unlike the Taiping rebels but like many Chinese folk sects, Boxer ideology forbade contact with women. Boxer discipline in its strictest form did not allow sexual contact with or even looking at a woman for fear that the female's polluting ''yin'' would destroy the invulnerability ritual.〔Joseph Esherick. ''The Origins of the Boxer Uprising.'' (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987 ISBN 0520058283), p. 235.〕 Nevertheless, women organized parallel units: The Red Lanterns (''Hongdeng zhao'', i.e. "Red Lanterns Shining"), for younger women, "Blue Lanterns" (''Landeng zhao'') for middle-aged women, and Black Lanterns (''Heideng zhao'') for elderly women. The Red Lanterns ranged in age from twelve to eighteen, did not set their hair in the traditional way and did not bind their feet. They wore red coats and trousers, red hats, and red shoes, and each carried a red lantern. They were convinced that they could leap up to heaven when they waved their red fans.〔Kazuko Ono, Ch Three "The Red Lanterns and the Boxer Rebellion", in ''Chinese Women in a Century of Revolution, 1850–1950.'' (''Chūgoku Jōsei-shi'') Translated and edited by Joshua A. Fogel (Tokyo, 1978; Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1989). ISBN 0804714967 (p. 49 ).〕 A folk song had it: :: Wearing all red, :: Carrying a small red lantern, :: Woosh, with a wave of the fan :: Up they fly to heaven.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Red Lanterns (Boxer Uprising)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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