With the development of science and technology, the convenience brought by science and technology to people's lives is more and more. Especially in the modern development history of mankind, the two industrial revolutions have changed the way of life of human beings, especially the second industrial revolution, which has brought mankind into the electric age. The invention of the electric light enabled humans to have light at night. Today, electric lights are an indispensable thing in our lives. What Xiaobian told you next is a small story related to electric lights.
In the late Qing Dynasty, as many foreigners came to the Qing Dynasty for commercial trade, strange Western things also spread to the Qing Dynasty. Once, in order to curry favor with Cixi, a minister in the imperial court installed a lot of electric lights in the palace. Since the electric light only reached the palace at that time, it was a new thing. The minister was still complacent in his heart, thinking that Lafayette must be very happy when he saw it.
When the lights were turned on, the palace was illuminated. This was the first time Cixi had seen a glowing electric lamp, and she said something afterward, "How can this eggplant glow?" "Well, Lafayette saw the shape of the electric lamp as an eggplant. Although this sentence makes people sound very funny, thinking that Lafayette does not know goods, not even electric lights, but in fact, this sentence is worth pondering. Why?
Everyone thinks that the actual ruler of the late Qing Dynasty during the Cixi period was the most accessible and conditional to new foreign technologies in all of China. In the case that the Qing Dynasty was originally backward in the world, Cixi did not think about how to study the West and make the country stronger, but still only cared about her own pleasures. Cixi's words also reflected her ignorance. How difficult is it for a country to become strong under a ruling class like Cixi? Therefore, in the editor's view, a country's temporary weakness is not terrible, and what is terrible is that it knows that it is weak but has not completely changed its ideas. I don't know what everyone thinks? Feel free to leave a comment below.