In the long history of our country, the Qing Dynasty was the last feudal dynasty, which lasted for more than two hundred years. In ancient Chinese history, there was a saying of "the curse of Hu Yu", which believes that a unified dynasty has a fate of no more than 300 years, of course, except for the Han Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, although the Han Dynasty has more than 400 years, but it is divided into the Eastern Han And Western Han, the Song Dynasty is relatively slightly better, lasting 319 years, but there are also Northern Song and Southern Song. Among the many feudal dynasties, the Qing Dynasty is the most likely to break through 300 years, but because of a series of events, the Qing Dynasty only lasted for 276 years, and some people have asked whether the Qing Dynasty can survive 300 years if the Qing Dynasty has not experienced invasion by foreign powers.
The Qing Dynasty was a lamentable dynasty that carried too much humiliating history. In the early qing dynasty, under the correct leadership of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong, the national strength was strong and the economy was developed, even after the defeat of the Sino-Japanese War in 1895, the economy of the Qing Dynasty at that time was still ranked high in all countries in the world at that time, but even in such a prosperous situation, the Qing Dynasty would not last more than three hundred years. Looking at the rise and fall of all dynasties in history, it is not difficult to find that the ability of the monarch to rule, the rapid increase in population, and the poor ability to produce and create are the main reasons for the decline of a country.
At the beginning of a dynasty, the first thing the emperor had to do was to take over power and control the people. The Qing Dynasty did a very good job in this regard, absorbing the ancient ideas of its predecessors, and the development of centralized power reached its peak. The Qing Dynasty was also very strict in governing the people, and if the people discussed current affairs privately, it was a major crime, and the introduction of a series of policies made the Control of the Qing Government very smooth. The cost of a high concentration of imperial power is extremely high, such as foreign rebellions, military generals seizing power, ministers overriding the dynasty, etc., in which case there will be a mediocre and incompetent emperor succession, which will have an impact on the development of the country. The concentration of imperial power is a double-edged sword, with advantages and disadvantages, and the attempted revolt of the king of the clan and the excessive interference of Empress Dowager Cixi and other ministers have put the Qing Dynasty in a precarious position, making the power of the Guangxu Emperor and The Puyi Emperor in the late Qing Dynasty extremely weak and vulnerable. In this situation of monarchy, the country is ignorant of the development of the outside world and gradually lags behind in the ranks of the world.
With the prosperity and development of the country throughout the dynasties, population growth and land contradictions are the biggest problems in a country. The outbreak of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement was the result of contradictions and conflicts, the people's resistance, and the shortage of land resources. In order to solve the impact of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Qing Dynasty spent hundreds of thousands of troops and 200 million taels of silver to quell the matter, which also indicated the gradual decline of the Qing Dynasty. During the Qing Dynasty, due to the problem of climate disasters, the country's grain production was greatly reduced, droughts, floods, and plagues occurred frequently, and at the same time, corruption and corruption occurred in the imperial court, and taxes intensified, resulting in the people's livelihood.
The Qing Dynasty never crossed the scope of the great unified feudal dynasty, did not solve the reasons for the destruction of the dynasties, but only repeated the path of the past dynasties. Even if the Qing Dynasty escaped the "Curse of Hu Yu" and the great powers did not invade, the Qing Dynasty could not survive 300 years, and with the outbreak of peasant uprisings and social contradictions, the collapse of the Qing Dynasty was also an inevitable result. It is sad to say that the invasion of foreign invaders even extended the reign of the Qing Dynasty to a certain extent, and that a large country was not only humiliated, but also reduced to a tool of foreign rulers. If a country or dynasty wants to last longer, it must learn advanced things and strive to improve its comprehensive national strength in order to occupy a place in the forest of the world.