People who are familiar with the history of the world will find a very strange phenomenon, although our country has a history of five thousand years and many dynasties during this period, but no dynasty can last 300 years. Even the world-famous Han Dynasty and Tang Dynasty failed to break through the 300-year mark. It should be known that the Han and Tang dynasties were the two most brilliant dynasties in Chinese history, and even these two dynasties failed to achieve sustained and stable development, let alone other dynasties.
Chinese dynasties changed dynasties in the river of history, and different regimes alternated, but they still could not maintain long-term rule. However, compared with China's neighbor Japan, although the country is weak and the population is small, it can maintain a dynasty for thousands of years, so what is the reason for this?
Demographic and economic contradictions
Modern historians have found an interesting phenomenon, and the dynastic changes in history are mostly related to population and economics. In ancient times, the population continued to grow in peacetime, but after reaching a certain level, it would lead to war, followed by a sharp decline in population and a cyclical situation. The growth of the population and the economic income have a lot to do with it, people have a stable income in peacetime, the natural population will continue to increase, but after the population increases to a certain extent, the economy will not be greatly improved in person, but the taxes levied by the state and the price of goods will not be reduced, so here there is a contradiction, a contradiction between the population and the economy. In ancient times, there were often many natural disasters, and the technology of the ancient people could not be effectively handled, resulting in further expansion of contradictions, and finally led to wars and dynastic changes. Therefore, the reason why ancient dynasties failed to develop stably and have a population economy is inevitably linked.
Foreign invasion
Many of the dynasties in ancient China were destroyed as a result of foreign aggression. The military strength of many dynasties in ancient China was not very strong, and our country was mainly based on farming, and war horses were lacking, and war horses were the main combat strength in ancient times, which directly led to The military strength of our country lagging behind others. The simplest example is the Song Dynasty being invaded by Jin, and although it also resisted, it still failed to avoid extinction in the face of absolute strength.
As well as the external expansion of the Yuan Dynasty, it directly suppressed the Han people. The rulers of the Yuan Dynasty were Mongols, and although they were also one of our people, they were foreign in ancient times. From this point of view, the reason why China's ancient dynasties failed to break through 300 years has a lot to do with foreign invasions.
National faith
The ability of a small Japanese country to achieve dynastic unchanged for thousands of years is not only related to their sparse population and the fact that isolated islands are not invaded, but also has a lot to do with the beliefs of their own people. The Japanese insisted that their emperor was a descendant of the gods, and that their emperors must exist, whether they were rulers or slaves.
Under this belief in unification, although there are occasional discord within Japan, the external front has always adhered to the united front, so Japan is not without dynastic changes, but it can be said that Japan's dynastic change is not as good as a change of ruler changing some policies, and it cannot be a change in the overall thinking of the whole country. So Japan can sustain the continued development of the dynasty.
The longer a country exists, the less capital and momentum it sustains. China is mainly a country with a large population, every turmoil will cause the population to plummet, and the distribution of resources is balanced, but with the increase in population and the uneven distribution of benefits, coupled with the emergence of various natural disasters, there are more and more contradictions, and finally the ruler can not change the situation, can only use war to solve the contradiction. Water can carry boats, but it can also cover boats. The development of the country is nothing more than this, how to maintain the long-term development of the country and maintain the balanced interests of the people is very important.