The Song Dynasty was an era of high prosperity in China's history of commodity economy, culture and education, and scientific innovation. China's total GDP in the three years of Xianping was 26.55 billion US dollars, accounting for 22.7% of the world's total, and the per capita GDP was 450 US dollars, exceeding the 400 US dollars in Western Europe at that time. Although later generations believed that the Song Dynasty was "poor and weak", the wealth and social and economic prosperity of the Song Dynasty far exceeded that of the Tang Dynasty. Not only economically, but also in terms of science and technology and culture, the Song Dynasty appeared song and ming theory, Confucianism was revived, science and technology developed rapidly, politics was enlightened, and there was no serious eunuch dictatorship and warlord division, and the number and scale of mutinies and civil unrest were relatively small in Chinese history. In the Northern Song Dynasty, the population grew rapidly due to the promotion of Champa rice, from 37.1 million in the five years of the Taiping Revival to 126 million in the sixth year of Xuanhe. So why was it that at that time, the economy, population, science and technology, culture, and national cohesion were all located in the world's top Song Dynasty at that time, and they would be beaten and bullied by the surrounding ethnic minorities, and finally a series of negative historical deeds appeared, such as the large-scale invasion of the Jin Dynasty in 1125, which led to the shame of Jingkang and the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty. In 1235, the Song and Yuan Wars broke out, and in 1276, the Yuan Dynasty captured Lin'an, and after the Battle of Yashan and Hai, the Southern Song Dynasty fell.
As a person of later generations, summing up a series of reasons for the demise of the Song Dynasty, first of all, we all say that in terms of culture and education, we all know that the education of a country is related to the future of a country, although the Song Dynasty is full of literary achievements, but the rulers of the Song Dynasty distorted Confucian culture in order to better rule their subjects, we all know that the demise of the Tang Dynasty is directly related to the division of the town, the Song Dynasty as a future generation will definitely learn the lessons of the demise of the previous dynasty, the Song Dynasty rulers came to power, Pushing the status of the literati to a very high level, resulting in the country emphasizing literature over military force, the people of the Song Dynasty at that time were proud to be a reader, and they all went to study, who went to fight as soldiers, who went to defend their families and defended the country, they all went to read books and do the work of loyalty to the king. At that time, the new population of the Song Dynasty was very large, and the children accepted this idea from an early age, and it is estimated that 9 out of 10 new students wanted to grow up and study and become officials in the future. Therefore, in the final analysis, the Song Dynasty's emphasis on literature and light on military force was a problem in the ideological education of the whole people. First of all, the Song Dynasty had a worrisome attitude toward the surrounding land, in the final analysis, it was still in the Confucian culture and small peasant thought, the Song Dynasty rulers did not fully combine Confucian culture with national interests, only to rule the subjects with Confucianism, in the Han and Tang Dynasties, the rulers of the Han and Tang Dynasties fully combined Confucian culture with national interests, all of which made their own country strong, Tang Taizong humbly accepted advice, and implemented a series of policies for the surrounding ethnic minorities. The shadow of Confucian culture is indispensable. In the Song Dynasty, Confucian culture became a tool for rulers to rule over their subjects and enslave women, and this series of policies was distorted from Confucian culture. In the final analysis, the demise of the Song Dynasty is inextricably linked to the ignorance of the rulers in the use of Confucian culture to educate their subjects and the comfortable status quo of small peasant thought.
Secondly, the song dynasty step by step to the abyss of extinction, and the policy of the rulers at that time, the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty and the use of Mongolia to destroy gold at that time have a direct connection, China's history has long had a precedent of cold lips and teeth, although the Jin Dynasty and the Song Dynasty are enemies, but the rulers at that time should not rush to avenge the shame of Jingkang, but the Mongols came to fight the Mongols, the Jin people came to fight the Jin people, the Mongols and the Jin people fought We watched the fire from the other side, sat idly by, and waited for both defeats to reap the benefits of the fishermen, and should not help the Mongols to extinguish the gold. As a result, in the end, the Mongol side was dominant, at least there was a Jin state, and Mongolia could not fight the Song Dynasty, and should make full use of the mutual consumption of Mongolia and Jin, rather than uniting with Mongolia to destroy gold. Then there is the fact that the rulers do not distinguish between right and wrong, and vigorously suppress the loyal subjects, so that Qin Ju, Jia Xiangdao, and a series of other traitors control the government.
For many reasons, the Song Dynasty, as a world power with strong comprehensive strength, was finally destroyed by the ethnic minorities in the north that had just risen for decades.