Yangyang Chinese culture has been passed down for thousands of years, with a long history, the Western Han Dynasty opened up the Silk Road, the Tang Dynasty's Zhenguan rule opened a precedent, Tang Xuanzong's efforts to open the Kaiyuan prosperous era, and culture once reached its peak. For the small countries around us, we have never killed them all, and have always treated people with courtesy and helped them have their own culture. However, by the end of the Qing Dynasty, the closed country missed the industrial revolution, and various technologies could not keep up with the pace of the times, reaching the trough of the times. Li Hongzhang, one of the leaders of the foreign affairs movement, once predicted that this country would become a great trouble if it were not eliminated! Cixi did not listen, and after many years, it was fulfilled.
During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, overseas trade was constantly frequent, anti-Qing uprisings also occurred frequently, in order to worry about the combination of Chinese and foreign forces, the internal and external cooperation to overthrow the government, issued a policy of closing the country to the outside world, reducing the opportunity for the people to go to the sea and contact with the outside world, and the subsequent literal prison caused a great impact on domestic culture. The industrial revolution set off in Europe was perfectly missed, and the arrival of the steam age brought major changes to Europe, and the power machine replaced humans, and the Qing government at that time was far away. It was not until the artillery of the Westerners opened the door of the Qing government that we saw the development of western countries, when China was no longer able to resist, and the corruption and incompetence within the Qing government were weakened. From then on, Li Hongzhang predicted that the Japanese state must be destroyed, otherwise it would become a major national disaster, but unfortunately Cixi did not pay attention.
At that time, Li Hongzhan knew that China needed reform and innovation to no longer raise its head among the Western powers, and the foreign affairs movement carried out in order to re-emerge was vigorous, although it could not be compared with the West, but it had opened up a gap with Japan at that time, but Japan at that time was not so arrogant later, looking at the powerful sailors of the Qing government, it has always been a promise, but the heart is full of anger. At that time, the Qing government was a brain to confront the European countries, and did not pay attention to this small island country, resulting in the later view of Japan still stuck in the past.
Technological progress after the Japanese Restoration, coupled with imperialist overtures, led to growing ambitions for outward expansion. When Japan invaded Korea, the Guangxu Emperor decided to send troops to help its neighbors, and then the Qing government and Japan broke out the Sino-Japanese War, at this time Japan already had a powerful water division, and the Qing government's Beiyang Water Division was strong in the outside world, and it was defeated and retreated all the way, and finally the entire army was destroyed and the "Treaty of Maguan" was signed. The end result was the deepening of China's semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, and China's long-despised maritime kou eventually allowed China to pay compensation for the land.
An uprising broke out in Wuchang, Hubei Province, to overthrow the Qing government and began the Xinhai Revolution, and in 1912 the Qing Emperor Puyi abdicated, and the Qing government disappeared. In World War II, Japan once again launched a long-planned war of aggression against China, and the two sides began a 14-year confrontation. Japan also thought that China was the original Qing government, planning to invade China in 3 months, but at that time China had already joined the battle with the whole people, and the Kuomintang and the Communist Party put aside the civil war and stood on the united front.
In the end, under this long-term contest, China finally defeated Japan, regained the land occupied by Japan, and regained the country's sovereignty at a tragic price. Japan suffered a huge blow after this defeat, but still unrepentant, China can have the current situation of rejuvenation so that the martyrs took their lives, they always remind us that backwardness will be beaten. If it is to stop facing the humiliation of the time, China must spare no effort to continue to develop.