Boxer indemnity: China Qing government paid Eight-Nation Alliance's war reparations against China 190 1. 1900 (the year of boxer), Russia, Britain, the United States, France, Germany, Japan, Italy and Austria invaded China, and the Qing government was defeated, so it was forced to sign the "Xin Chou Treaty" in Beijing on September 7,190/kloc-0.

Among them, the sixth paragraph stipulates that the official compensation of various countries is 450 million taels, with an annual interest of 4%, which will be paid off in 39 years. The total principal and interest is 982238 150 Liang, which is mortgaged by customs duties, regular taxes and salt taxes. This huge indemnity was caused by the Boxer War, so it was called boxer indemnity.

The origin of the school name

Tsinghua University's predecessor was Tsinghua Campus. Tsinghua campus is the seat of the former Qing imperial garden. Tsinghua Campus was originally a part of Xichun Garden built during Kangxi period. In the second year of Daoguang (1822), Xichun Garden was divided into two parts, and the garden in the west was named "Near Spring Garden", which was given to the fourth son of the emperor (later Emperor Xianfeng);

The garden in the east is still Xichun Park, which was given to the emperor's five sons. During the Xianfeng period, Dongyuan was renamed as "Tsinghua Campus" because it took a poem by Xie Hun, a poet of the Jin Dynasty, "Birds Singing, Shui Mu Zhan Tsinghua" ("You"). The Tsinghua School, which was built in Tsinghua campus with part of boxer indemnity returned from the United States, officially opened in 19 1 1.