The ¡°Movement to Destroy the Statue¡± was a popular movement initiated by Dutch artisans, civilians and peasants against the Catholic Church and Spanish colonial rule, and was an integral part of the famous Dutch bourgeois revolution in European history.

¡°The Netherlands¡± means the lowland, which includes the area equivalent to today¡¯s Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and parts of northern France. In the early 16th century, it was under the rule of the Spanish Habsburg dynasty. The Spanish rulers and the Catholic Church exercised a brutal rule over the Netherlands people. King Charles I of Spain issued a ¡°bloody decree¡± in 1550 against those ruled by Spain, killing men, burying women alive, and even burning them. After the retirement of Charles I, his son Philip II repressed the Netherlands people even more brutally. He appointed his sister Margaret as Governor of the Netherlands, reiterating the ¡°bloody decree¡±. It is estimated that more than 50,000 people were killed and deported during the five years

The brutal rule of Spain, which caused strong dissatisfaction among the people of the Netherlands, eventually sparked a massive people¡¯s uprising. On August 11, 1566, some cities in Flanders initiated the uprising, and the storm of the uprising was initially directed at the church, with wooden sticks, iron hamsters, storming into the church monastery, destroying the so-called ¡°holy things¡± such as the Holy Skull. The uprising developed rapidly and quickly spread to the twelve provinces in the 17 provinces of the Netherlands. In a short period, churches and monasteries were destroyed, and therefore, historically called the ¡°Destroying the Holy Image Movement¡±. In fact, they were not limited to destroying the Catholic church, but

The revolutionary movement of the Netherlands frightened the Spanish reactionary authorities, and they took two means: on the one hand, issuing a manifesto, pretending to promise the demands of the masses, and stopping the persecution of Protestants; on the other hand, drawing up the aristocracy and bourgeoisie in the ranks of the insurgency, and dividing the disintegrated revolutionary squad. Due to the rebellious and rebellion of the aristocracy and bourgeoisie, the insurgency was repressed by the Spanish reactionaries, and the insurgents were killed by more than 8,000. However, this insurgency had a profound significance, and soon the unarrested insurgents organized guerrillas, attacking the Spanish reactionary rul