I believe that everyone has heard Napoleon's famous saying: "China is a sleeping lion", this sentence is talked about by many people, and the versions of this statement are also diverse, but they are indispensable, that is, the importance of China. Who was Napoleon? The famous Emperor of France, the world-famous monarch, was able to gain his approval by describing our country as a sleeping lion? Isn't this the best manifestation of our country's strength? If you really understand what Napoleon said, I am afraid you will not think so.
We can first see where this sentence originated, the remark that China is a sleeping lion, first originated in 1887, the Chinese diplomat, Zeng Jize, the second son of Zeng Guofan, published in the European "Asian Quarterly" "China Sleeps First and Wakes Up Later": "Foolish to think that China is just like a person sleeping, it is not hanging down." ”
The totem of the Chinese nation is a dragon, why compare it to a lion? In the myths and legends of the Western people in the past, the dragon is a more cunning and fierce animal, and the lion has a majestic appearance, on the other hand, the dragon is also regarded as a symbol of the corrupt Qing court, which makes the lion a metaphor.
At this time in China, poor and weak, how many people are eager to be able to stand up and wake up in China, for this reason the country is likened to a lion is also more and more people, Hunan Chen Tianhua, in the article, wrote that he dreamed of being chased by wolves, shouted, woke up a sleeping male lion in the mountains, was shouted by him, "Then the number woke up, turned over, roared." Those tigers and wolves, don't want to die. "During the Republic of China period, magazines such as "Awakening lion" and "Sleeping Lion" also appeared in an endless stream.
Regarding China's "sleeping lion theory", we must find a more authoritative person to prove it, first of all, he cannot be a Chinese, otherwise it will become a gold paste on his face?
Secondly, he had better enjoy prestige all over the world, and after so much analysis, there are many versions of the "Sleeping Lion Theory", some people think that Bismarck, the Iron-Blooded Prime Minister of Prussia, said by Some people think that the "Tiger of France" French Prime Minister Clemenceau said, the story that spreads the most fame, or originated from Napoleon. The story goes like this:
In 1816, the British Count Amested as a British diplomat, came to China to discuss trade issues, he refused to kowtow to the Jiaqing Emperor, failed to complete the mission, at this time the Qing Dynasty, has begun to decline, on the way back to The Country, The Count of Amested went to the island of St. Helena to hear the ideas of the French Emperor Napoleon who was imprisoned here.
At this time, Napoleon, who had just launched the Battle of Waterloo, hoped to regain his former glory, but was defeated and imprisoned on the island of St. Helena, where he was very dissatisfied with the British who caused his defeat, and in Amistad's conversation, Napoleon fully played a role as a lever.
Amistad believed that Although China was vast, it was weak and the people were poor, and he saw that the people along the way were skinny, the officials were big belly, and Napoleon fought back, and in any case, fighting against this vast and rich empire was the biggest stupid thing in the world. They will beat you up.
Amistad said: "Behind China's superficial strength is a mud-footed giant, very weak. But Napoleon believed: "China is not weak, it is just a sleeping lion." Once China is awakened, the world will shake, and I hope he will never wake up. The second half of Napoleon's sentence, I believe that everyone will not praise it after hearing it. This is the second half of Napoleon's "Sleeping Lion Theory" story, which currently sounds slightly more reliable, and there is no evidence that it came from Napoleon's mouth, but for Chinese, this empty message can greatly satisfy vanity.
In any case, China's modern history has never been a praiseworthy history, what people need is not praise, but reflection, modern China, has always been immersed in the dream of "heaven and the kingdom", so it is self-proclaimed, there is a painful lesson, Xiaobian may as well use another famous quote of Napoleon to encourage everyone: The greatest glory of life is not to never fail, but to be able to rise again and again.