China has always been a very powerful dynasty in history, but in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty everything changed, although the total amount of China's trade and population at that time was the largest in the world, but the military strength has lagged behind the Western powers, Europe at that time was undergoing an industrial revolution, and the Qianlong Emperor also thought that he was a heavenly kingdom, smug, at that time the Western envoys had contributed to the blueprints of the industrial revolution, but Qianlong was proud and arrogant, thinking that the Heavenly Dynasty was rich in products and omnipotent, and also wrote a canonization to the British king. Nowadays it has become a joke in the British Museum.
In 1840 AD, the Opium War broke out, only more than 20,000 British fleet dared to shout the Qing Dynasty, although the Qing Dynasty has a million troops, but in the face of advanced weapons and equipment, no matter how many people are useless, and finally the Qing government was forced to sign the Treaty of Nanjing, open the treaty port to cede land, but also compensated 6 million taels of silver, the Western powers saw that Britain hid the sweetness, have come to share a piece of the pie, turning China into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, so the Qing Dynasty has been suffering until 1912, the last emperor Puyi abdicated.
Although the Qing Dynasty perished, but at that time it was the Beiyang warlords in power, Yuan Shikai monopolized power, he ostensibly supported the republic, in fact wanted to be the emperor, and finally did 83 days of emperor and died, after Yuan Shikai's death, the Beiyang warlords were leaderless, divided into many factions, such as the Feng family, the direct line, the Anhui family, the Zhejiang family, etc., they began to fight for the land and territory, the people were very bitter, and then the National Government launched the Northern Expedition, Zhang Xueliang changed the banner, which was exchanged for a short period of peace. However, at the same time, Japan was eyeing China.
In the War of Resistance Against Japan, Chiang Kai-shek, as the commander-in-chief of the Chinese theater, did make a certain contribution; he did not betray the country and seek glory like Wang Jingwei, and fought a bloody war with the Japanese to the end; he also said that no matter whether the north or the south, people, old and young, all had the responsibility of defending the territory and resisting the war, although Chiang Kai-shek was a controversial figure, he still had certain merits during the War of Resistance Against Japan, but after the war, Chiang Kai-shek insisted on going his own way to establish a dictatorial government, and finally he was unpopular, and in 1945 he could only be defeated and retreated to Taiwan Province of China.
In his later years, Chiang Kai-shek's life was not satisfactory, but he had a wife named Song Meiling, Song Meiling was born in the Song family, her sister Song Qingling was sun Yat-sen's wife, during the War of Resistance Against Japan, Song Meiling mediated with Western countries as a woman, won a lot of assistance, on April 5, 1975, Chiang Kai-shek died, as a wife, Song Meiling, put 4 books in his coffin, namely "Three People's Principles", "Tang Poems", "Desert Ganquan" and "Bible", because Chiang Kai-shek was a Christian, There will be Western books, and when he dies, he will leave a last word, the coffin must not fall into the ground, hoping that in the future there will be a chance to bury the ancestral grave.