The Qing Dynasty is not only the last feudal dynasty in China's history, but also the darkest dynasty, in the more than two hundred years of the existence of the Qing Dynasty, the life of the common people has not only become more and more difficult, the taxation and servitude have become heavier and heavier, and our country has also degenerated into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, beginning the modern history of humiliation and suffering, which makes people extremely sad.
Every time we mention the fainting and decay of the rulers of the Qing Dynasty, everyone will think of Empress Dowager Cixi, thinking that she is a sinner of the Qing Dynasty and the culprit of the fall of the Qing Dynasty, and it is precisely because of the countless treaties she signed to lose power and humiliate the country that our country has been bullied by imperialism.
Cixi was the supreme ruler of the late Qing Dynasty, in fact, she was a very politically talented person, the ability to govern was much stronger than the Xianfeng Emperor, the Tongzhi Emperor, and the Guangxu Emperor, if it were not for her painstaking efforts to continue the life of the Qing Dynasty for decades, the Qing Dynasty would have perished long ago, her ability was definitely stronger than most of the emperors of the Qing Dynasty, and the demonization of her by future generations was too serious.
In the middle and late Qing Dynasty, various social problems have accumulated, although Cixi also supported the foreign affairs movement, but everything is too late, for the acceptance of new things, Cixi is actually very enlightened, and she has always been at ease in handling national affairs, absolutely a very good female politician, but really powerless to return to heaven.
The Real Transformation of the Qing Dynasty from Prosperity to Decline was because of one person, he was the Qianlong Emperor, although history books and film and television dramas often advocated the prosperity of Kangqian, but Qianlong could say that there was nothing he did during his reign, and he was arrogant and closed to the country, so that our country and the world were cut off from contact, missed two industrial revolutions, and lagged behind Western countries from then on.
The so-called prosperous kangqian was only because the population increased a little at that time, but the people's lives were still not good, and when the Qianlong Emperor ascended the throne, the treasury was sufficient, and there were few natural and man-made disasters during his reign, and luck was really very good, and he enjoyed all his life to be rich and prosperous, and he was really a blessed person in the world.
The qing dynasty turned from prosperity to decline from the Qianlong period, after which the Qing Dynasty was just a matter of internal strength, and in the late Qing Dynasty, the Western powers knocked on the door of our country through the Opium War and began our nearly one hundred years of humiliation, and the culprit of all this was not Cixi, but the Qianlong Emperor, who practiced a closed country.