Except for the struggle between the Qing government and patriotic officers and soldiers, the broad masses of the people never gave up their struggle. Where imperialism invaded, it met with resistance. Guangzhou Sanliyuan Uprising and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement led by Hong Xiuquan are both concrete manifestations of the resistance of famous people.

After the Sino-Japanese War, the Reform Movement of 1898 began. The Reform Movement of 1898 is an event of great significance in the modern history of China, a bourgeois reform movement and a preliminary attempt by the bourgeoisie to reform the social system. The reformists tried to establish a bourgeois constitutional monarchy politically. Economically developing national capitalism conforms to the historical development trend. This is a political movement of patriotism and saving the country. At the moment when the national crisis intensifies, the reformists hope to make China strong through political reform, so as to get rid of the aggression of imperialist powers, show strong patriotic enthusiasm and inspire people's patriotic thoughts and national consciousness. The Reform Movement of 1898 was also an ideological emancipation in modern China. The bourgeoisie followed the reformists, advocated new learning, advocated civil rights, and lashed out at feudal ideas, which played an enlightening role in society and promoted the awakening of China people.

The process of China's modernization is also a process for China people to learn from the West and explore the road of saving the country. This process is from learning western military artifacts to learning western political system, and then to learning western ideology and culture. Due to the double squeeze of foreign capitalism and domestic feudal forces, the pursuit of modernization by various political forces in modern China seemed swift and fierce, but it never stopped. This also makes us proud.

During this period, the spirit of the May 4th Movement appeared. Their patriotism, the spirit of fighting for justice and truth, and the spirit of not fearing violence are worth learning from young people and students of every era. These "May 4th Spirit" need to be carried forward in study, on campus, in life, on the road of growing up bit by bit, and in the construction of the motherland. We should integrate these spirits into our own blood, make these treasures a part of life, and make ourselves qualified successors.