民国报刊中的“马皇帝”事件

The Emperor Ma Incident in the Press of the Republic of China

1913年,民国初立,社会动荡不安。马士伟利用时势在山东长山县创教“一心堂”,发展迅速。1929年2月马士伟宣布“称帝”,6月被南京国民政府剿灭,但马士伟逃至天津,勾结敌伪成立了“一心天道龙华圣教会”,再次做起了“皇帝”。抗日战争胜利后该会被查封,马士伟被全国通缉。马皇帝事件反映出在当时混乱与愚昧的下层社会中,民主共和的观念还没有为民众所普遍接受。

In 1913,the year after the Republic of China was established,the society was in turmoil.Ma Shiwei took advantage of the current situation to establish a church whose name is Yixintang in Changshan County,Shandong Province,which developed rapidly.In February1929,Ma Shiwei declared himself“Emperor”,but in June,he was exterminated by the National Government of Nanjing.However,he was not captured and fled to Tianjin to collude with the enemy and the puppet regime to establish the“Yixin Tiandao Longhua Holy Church”and became“emperor”again.After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression,this church was shut down and Ma Shiwei was wanted all over the country.The Emperor Ma Incident reflected the fact that in the chaotic and ignorant lower-class society at that time,the democratic and republican concept was not yet widely accepted by the common people.