Why did China lose the Sino-Japanese War in the Opium War, but what was the reason why the War of Resistance was victorious?

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When is the country in China our people's own? That is to say, when did China have a nation-state that belongs to the common people? Did the ancient state belong to the people? No, and so what?

When did Chinese really go out of the ancient world and into the modern era? The history of our textbooks has been broken, and modern times have begun with the Opium War. Is this a generational error? Why did the Eight-Power Coalition enter Beijing without the desperate resistance of the common people? Without the improvement of the status of the people, could the Xinhai Revolution succeed and the history of China's imperial system end?

First of all, we need to know, in ancient China, who did the state belong to? The answer is very simple, in the past, China's state was not our people's, "degeneration is the state, the country is degenerate" reveals such a truth, the country is the emperor's, by no means our people's. The common people were nothing more than slaves working for the emperor, and they were the objects of oppression and exploitation by the emperor and the government. Therefore, at that time, the Chinese people would never love the country like they loved their families, full of sunshine and enthusiasm, and could give their lives. Why is that?

Why? In my opinion, in ancient times, Chinese had no national identity, and some were just some pejorative titles of many "people", first of all, the people can only be the people, can not be the father, because there is no word father, because the official is the lord, the emperor is the lord, so the people can only be the people. Second, the people can only be commoners, and they can never be people of the concubines. Because the people are the objects that are not loved and protected by the government. Third, the people can only be untouchables and grass people, because the people are lowly, and the officials and masters are rich and noble. The reason why the people are grass people is because the people are the objects of the official government's grass people's lives. If I look for something good, so I find the good name of the people of Li Min, but in fact, it is a failure to rise, a failure to lose. Those who do well are good people, and those who are slightly disobedient to the discipline of the government are the people who are diao. In short, the people are by no means citizens, let alone citizens, but objects of control, enslavement, and oppression by the government. This is the status of the ancient people. The common people are the essence of the ancient Chinese people.

During the Republic of China, the greatest progress of Chinese society was that the people gained national status. In my opinion, this is the real sign of the progress of Chinese from ancient times to modern times. Before the Chinese emperor and other imperial systems were overthrown, the common people could not escape the fate of being slaughtered by the emperor and the government. Why do we think that during the Republic of China, the Chinese people gained the status of "nationals"? It is better to speak of the law, and the government of the Republic of China stipulated in the 1946 Constitution that "sovereignty belongs to the people". This marks that Chinese really came out of ancient times. This is an epoch-making progress.

Furthermore, we can ponder the question: Why did the Eight-Power Alliance enter Beijing without the desperate resistance of the common people? That's because the people are just common people and grass people, and they are not protected by the government and the imperial court. That is also because the government of the late Qing Dynasty was the government of the imperial court, not our common people, so there was the early national consciousness of Sun Yat-sen who "expelled the Tartars and restored China", and later promoted to the "Republic of the Five Nationalities" to eliminate the shortcomings of Han chauvinism. The government of the Republic of China not only gave the people the identity of the people, but also used the identity of the "people" to stimulate the revolutionary enthusiasm of the people and arouse the people's infinite reverie for a happy life, so the Northern Expedition was victorious, so the imperial system ended. That was the victory of Chinese from grass people to people! Therefore, based on the elevation of the common people from the common people to the status of the people and the people, Chinese marks the real figure out of the ancient world, becoming a real modern person, China has been elevated to a nation-state, and only then has the ancient dross of "degeneration is the state, and the state is degenerate" has been eliminated.

During the Republic of China, China created a nation-state, which greatly liberated the forbidden area of the people's ideological and cultural creation, and thus gave birth to a large number of outstanding talents such as Sun Yat-sen, Li Dazhao, Chen Duxiu, Cai Yuanpei, Hu Shi, Lu Xun and so on, far beyond the height of the Hundred Sons and Hundreds of Families. Because most of the talents of the Hundred Sons and Hundreds of Families serve the royal power of the princes, while the talents developed by the Republic of China serve the people of the Chinese national state. In other words, most of the hundred families of the sons are loyal to the imperial palaces of the princes, while the people of the Republic of China are loyal to the people who carry the nation-state.

In addition, from the perspective of ethnology and international politics, the nation-state is a product of modern political civilization and a sign of the country's transition from barbarism to civilization. Because only the nation-state serves the people, the members of the nation-state owe allegiance to their compatriots with a common sense of identity and the system they have formed together, while the ancient state served the emperors, nobles, and bureaucrats. Only in the era of the nation-state, the people are the object of state protection, the people will swear to defend the country to the death, otherwise they will abandon the decaying state as in ancient times.

From the perspective of human nature, not living in any country, will be loyal to the motherland. The question of whose state the state is and who it protects is the fundamental reason for whether the state is strong or not. The ancient state did not reach the height of the nation-state because the government protected not the rights of the people, but the interests of the nobility and the power of the king. In the late Qing Dynasty of China, the law will not greatly protect the interests of the people, because China did not give birth to a Chinese nation-state until the late Qing Dynasty. The West only gave birth to nation-states in the 17th and 18th centuries, and China was even later, and only during the Republic of China was born China's nation-states, so in the Republic of China era, the War of Resistance was victorious, and in the Opium War and the Sino-Japanese War, China was bound to lose.

My conclusion is that the construction of the nation-state is a long historical process. At the level of ancient development, the state built was to protect and serve the interests of the royal family and nobles, and did not protect the interests of the people, so the ancient state did not serve the people. When the state protects the interests of the royal family and the nobility, but also protects the interests of the people, it ushers in the era of building a nation-state, and the status of the people and the grass people will be elevated to the height of the people and the people. Only then will we bid farewell to the political barbarism of the country and usher in this era of civilization in the country, and only then will the people truly be the masters of their own affairs. However, the level of development of the nation-state will go through a long process, from modern to modern and then to postmodern, from national to citizen, from citizens to only enjoy formal rights to substantive rights. In my opinion, this process will take hundreds of years. Today, the United States has only achieved the formal level of citizenship, not to mention India and North Korea.

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