In Peking after the occupation by the Eight-Nation Allied Forces, prisoners suspected of being Yihe Dan were publicly beheaded in August 1900 in the execution streets as an immediate reprisal. Looting, robbery, pillaging, rape, and murder took place.

 　In Beijing, after the occupation by the Allied Forces of the Eight Kingdoms, prisoners suspected of being Yihe Dan were publicly beheaded in August 1900 in the execution streets as an immediate reprisal. The main areas of the Uihe Dan Rebellion originated in Shandong Province, where German troops had advanced.

　In the mid-19th century, China was forced to open up to the Han Chinese by the Opium War and other wars. Unequal treaties that made concessions to Western powers and even to Japan limited Chinese sovereignty. Conflicts in China's sphere of influence intensified after the Sino-Japanese War. After unsuccessful negotiations, the German Reich led a naval force to occupy Qingdao Bay in the wake of the murder of two missionaries, and in 1898, a treaty with China ceded the Qingdao city lease to the German Reich for 99 years.

　The Yihe Dan Rebellion, a secret society known as the Boxers by Europeans, was formed. Opposing the marginalization of China and the presumption of Christianity, they demanded China's independence and restoration After 1899, rebellions initially broke out in the provinces, destroying railroads and missions and killing missionaries and Chinese Christians By the early summer of 1900, hundreds of thousands of Chinese had joined the rebellion. In the mission district of Beijing, 950 foreigners and 3,000 Chinese Christians were trapped, and a German missionary was killed. As the Yihe Dan rebellion spread, hostile foreign powers formed an allied force of eight nations at the mouth of Peihu Lake and off the coast of Dagu. The fort off Dagu was bombarded and stormed by the navy. The forces of the eight countries fought their way to Beijing, meeting strong resistance along the shores of Peihu Lake and along the railroad line. Temporarily cut off from their stronghold by the Chinese forces, and in the midst of a severe retreat, a detachment of the German Navy was ordered to the front line. After 55 days of siege due to the German rearmament advance, those imprisoned in Peking were liberated on August 14, 1900, with reinforcements from the relief forces.

　At the request of the German Emperor, a joint high command of the powers was formed, and the Prussian Marshal Waldersee was appointed. Numerous expeditions were ordered, and looting, robbery, pillaging, rape, and murder took place. in the fall of 1901, China signed a peace treaty. The powers gained the right to station troops: between the end of July 1901 and the end of October 1901, some 15,000 men of the East Asian Expeditionary Force were stationed in China.