Soon, the word "Patriotism" became synonymous with the word "Revolution".
The word "revolution" did not suddenly come into everyone's mind initially. Even the Father of Xin Hai Revolution, Dr. Sun Yet-san tried many ways to get Wang Tao to pass a letter to Li Hong Zhang regarding his new formula of governance. But, as soon as his idea was turned down straight away, the word "Revolution !" appeared in his mind.
Not long, Russia invaded and occupied a part of China, the Chinese began to demonstrate and they wanted the Qing government to denounce the invader's criminal action. The anti-Russian sentiment was seen as a revolution by the rulers and a harsh crackdown soon followed. Because of that, the students began to promote and harness the idea of "Revolution". In order to reverse the situation, the Qing government tried to appease the crowd by creating a propaganda for resisting the Russian bandits instead of fighting their Manchus masters.