This day, 2 May, 1895, political thinker and reformer Kang Youwei gathered over 1,000 Imperial Examination candidates in Beijing to jointly submit a letter requesting the Qing government’s refusal to ratify the Treaty of Shimonoseki. This was the first popular domestic-protest event triggered by a diplomatic failure in modern Chinese history, now recognised as the beginnings of Chinese mass-political movements.
1895年5月2日的这一天，政治思想家兼改革家康有为在北京召集了1000多名帝国考试考生，共同提交了一封信，要求清政府拒绝批准《下关条约》。 这是中国近代史上第一次由外交失败引发的民众国内抗议活动，现在被认为是中国群众政治运动的开始。
