In the late period, Empress Dowager Cixi held great power in the government, and she stubbornly implemented the policy of closing the country to the outside world, wantonly suppressing those reformists and reformists, and the Qing Dynasty became more and more backward, so that the Western powers saw the opportunity and opened the door of the Qing Dynasty with a strong ship and cannon.
More than 10 countries entered the Qing Dynasty together, and the Western powers did nothing wrong, burning and looting. Not only that, but it also forced Empress Dowager Cixi to sign many treaties that humiliated the country, causing a large area of China's territory to be lost.
More importantly, after the signing of the Xinugu Treaty, our country suffered more and more heavy losses, and we could not repay the silver owed to the West for hundreds of years. The great powers have also snatched many national treasures from Chinese soil, and to this day, a large number of national treasures are still lost overseas, which is extremely heart-wrenching.
That year was 1900, and the Boxer Rebellion was in full swing, stirring up the Qing Dynasty. At this time, the Western powers also saw the opportunity, which was the best time for them to invade the fat meat of the Qing Dynasty. Before the invasion, they found a very legitimate reason to help the Qing government suppress the Boxers, so a large number of foreign warships and troops took turns to enter Beijing, Tianjin and so on.
After they entered Beijing, they did nothing wrong, like no man's land. Empress Dowager Cixi fled in a hurry, only caring about her own safety, where to manage the survival of the Qing Dynasty and the people. At that time, the entire city of Beijing was full of smoke and smoke, and a large number of cultural relics in the Forbidden City were swept away by the great powers.
The worst of the invading forces at that time were Germany and Russia. They not only stole a lot of our belongings, but also wantonly killed innocents, causing many ordinary people to lose their lives innocently. And Germany only went to the city a day later than others, and it began to kill people when it was ashamed and angry.
There is no bottom line for the behavior of these bandits and robbers, the Forbidden City Summer Palace and other places collect most of the national treasures of the Qing Dynasty, and when they see those valuable treasures, the Western powers have golden eyes and move out in boxes, while those who cannot take them are burned by them, or even broken, and their robber nature is exposed.
Many historical relics contain very important humanistic values, and even represent the highest level of craftsmanship in our country, so they are robbed by the great powers and burned and smashed, and there is almost no left, and this behavior of the great powers is undoubtedly an anti-human and anti-historical robbery and plunder, destined to be nailed to the column of shame of history.
The invasion of the Eight-Power Alliance has caused the loss of many precious national treasures of our country, including the entire set of Yongle Canon, which can no longer be described as valuable, such precious cultural relics, but they are shown off everywhere as war booty.
To know that the Yongle Canon is a precious historical material compiled by the Ming Dynasty with painstaking efforts, containing the historical context of the development of Chinese civilization, after being taken away by the great powers, our country has no original version, which is undoubtedly a huge loss.
Fortunately, until the founding of New China, as the Chinese nation became richer and stronger and more influential, those countries that participated in the plunder began to show favor to us, including Germany and Russia, which were the craziest robberies at that time, and they finally returned the stolen Yongle Ceremony to our country.
Among them, the German Chancellor visited China in 1955, and he returned three Yongle ceremonies of our country. It is also a manifestation of their sincere friendship, which has been warmly welcomed by the people of our country, and the German Chancellor has not only returned some of the cultural relics they stole in the first place, but also solemnly apologized to our country.
Before this, the Relations between the Soviet Union and our country had been good, and it had provided a lot of help for our revolutionary victory, and after the founding of New China, the Soviet Union returned the 11 Yongle Classics they had stolen for the first time, and in 1954 returned the remaining 52 copies.
A few years later, a Soviet delegation visited China, and they apologized for the war of aggression against China. Therefore, Germany and the Soviet Union are the 2 countries that apologized to us and returned the cultural relics, and the others were not returned. Entering a new stage of development, our country has established diplomatic relations with Germany and the Soviet Union with a strategic vision.
Although these two countries have returned some national treasures, there are still many losses overseas, and we must never forget the great harm caused to us by the eight-power alliance. From the founding of New China to the present, we have never given up the investigation of those cultural relics that have been lost overseas, and many national treasures have also returned to the motherland through auctions and other forms.
History has always had a memory, and the fact that the great powers invaded on a large scale when our country was weak fully demonstrated the truth that backwardness will be beaten, and a weak and small country has no right to speak.
Summary: Today our country is rich and strong, the development is getting better and better, the international influence is also getting bigger and bigger, we will never allow such things to happen in those days, historical experience tells us that we cannot relax our vigilance at any time, the threats and provocations of the enemy are everywhere, and we need to always remain vigilant and constantly develop and expand ourselves.