From the plate tectonic map, we can know that many years ago, the now scattered land was actually a whole land, and with the evolution of the crust plate over a long period of time, it became the seven continents and four oceans on the map today, and the land is still in slow motion.
Because there will be marine obstacles between different lands, it was difficult for people in the past to know the whole picture of the earth, so for the development of the country, many Western countries began to send their own fleets to explore, thus discovering various unknown geographical states step by step, drawing a map and gradually improving, stepping out of their own field to obtain a relatively large development, from which the importance of the map can also be seen. China also drew its own map during the Ming Dynasty, and a glance at the world map drawn by the Ming Dynasty revealed how stupid the Rulers of the Qing Dynasty were.
I. Ming Dynasty", "Kunyu All Nations"
During the Ming Dynasty, the policy of opening up to the outside world was implemented, and Zheng He led the fleet to the West seven times, so many countries around China had some understanding of the original Chinese Ming Dynasty, especially when Zheng He went to the West, although they passed through many countries, but their national strength was not as good as the Ming Dynasty at that time, the Ming Dynasty did not choose to attack and invade them, but chose to reward them at any cost in the image of a big country, to achieve the purpose of publicizing national prestige.
At this time, many international friends and emissaries arrived in the Ming Dynasty to visit and learn the advanced culture of the Ming Dynasty and to pay tribute to the Ming Emperor, who also told various deeds and things to foreign visitors. A missionary named Matteo Ricci once came to China to present a volume of the Atlas of All Nations, a map of the world, to the Myeongjin Sect.
The Myōjin Sect was so interested in this map, which was marked with various strange patterns, that he even ordered professional people to make this map into a very delicate silk map. Later, Matteo Ricci also cooperated with the Chinese official Li Zhizao to draw and distribute the "Kunyu Wanguo Map", which shocked the Chinese at that time and allowed more people to understand the whole picture of the world.
Second, the Qing Dynasty's contempt for maps
However, such an important map of the world was not taken seriously by the rulers of the Qing Dynasty, who did not study and make good use of this "Kunyu Map of all nations", but collected it as an ordinary collection. After this, the Qing Dynasty also achieved relatively good development, at this time the Qing Dynasty thought that it was a well-deserved "heavenly kingdom", did not see that western countries were rising and developing, but implemented a closed country policy, and turned away all progress.
Later, because of his ignorance of the Western countries and the international situation, he was easily blasted open. At that time, the Daoguang Emperor even asked the stupid question of where britain was, how big it was, and whether there was a direct road in Xinjiang, which showed the serious problems caused by the Qing Dynasty's contempt for maps.
Third, the importance of maps to a country
In the past, when science and technology were not developed, mapping was not a very simple thing, every land, every country, every geographical overview data was very difficult to obtain, even if it was summarized and drawn into a map, it was not as accurate as it is now, but it was also very important for the development of that era. Now we can use various science and technology to obtain a more accurate overview of the earth, draw an extremely accurate map, and countries can also use the rich and accurate information on the map to get more development. The current Chinese has also fully learned the lessons of the Rulers of the Qing Dynasty and will never repeat such mistakes again.
Perhaps the reason for the prosperity and development of the Ming Dynasty is not all the reason for the world map, but the decline of the Qing Dynasty in modern times must have had a reason to despise the world map. Although every country now has a map, we must also learn the lessons of the Qing Dynasty and keep up with the times in order to develop in international competition.