The Death of the Monarchy: The Evolution of the Meaning of "Long Live" News Words 1902-1919

"Long live" is a myth, the late Tang Dynasty was exclusive to the imperial power. The sway of the imperial power in the late Qing Dynasty led to the instability of the meaning of "Long live", and the evolution of the meaning of "long live" seemed to predict the change of the imperial power. This paper analyzes the content of 1996 articles of "Long Live" from the signing of the Treaty of Sin and Ugly to the outbreak of the May 4th Movement, and tries to describe the evolution of the word "Long live" and the historical picture of the collapse of imperial power reflected by it. By exploring the "anonymous historical rules" behind the myth, this paper tries to discuss how to continue to use the word "Long live" in today's news. Based on the basic logic of "foreign news - news - scandal", this paper combs the evolution of the word meaning of "Long live" in each period and the logic of the demise of imperial thought reflected by it, and draws the word frequency map of the subject of "Long live" congratulations in each period. In addition, this paper attempts to propose the logical consistency between the deconstruction of the "Long live" discourse and the construction of the "people" discourse.