Regarding the Olympic Games, did China participate in the Qing Dynasty? Is there any historical data that can be verified?

1896 1 On the eve of the modern Olympic Games, Frenchman Coubertin sent a letter to the Qing government, inviting China to participate in the upcoming Olympic Games in Athens. China was the first to receive an invitation letter from Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty for the Olympic Games, but because Empress Dowager Cixi and her staff did not understand the meaning of the word "track and field", they could not send a team to participate.

Later, jokes about the Qing Dynasty's participation in the Olympic Games were used by the people to mock the government of the late Qing Dynasty, and there was no license to check them.

1932 China participated in the Olympic Games for the first time, and Liu Changchun was eliminated from the preliminaries. 1984, New China officially sent a delegation to participate in the Los Angeles Olympic Games for the first time, and achieved 15 gold medal, 8 silver medals and 9 bronze medals.