A gunshot rang out in the three towns of Wuhan, bringing an end to 276 years of the Qing dynasty’s dark, despotic rule. After more than two hundred years of enslavement and untold suffering under the decaying Qing dynasty, the people were finally free again. The Qing dynasty’s sudden collapse marked the end of an old era. The awakening of national consciousness among the people meant that any clown acting against the tide of history would be swept away.
