Serbia is a small landlocked country in the Balkans in southeastern Europe.
With an area of 88,000 square kilometers, it is a little larger than the Chinese municipality of Chongqing.
Two-thirds of the country is mountainous, with the Stalaya Mountains and the Dinaric Mountains to the east and west respectively.
The highest peak is mount Jalavitsa, on the southwestern border with Albania, at an altitude of 2,656 meters.
The abundance of limestone mountains makes Serbia one of the richest karst regions in the world. (What is karst point here)
The Danube, Europe's largest river, flows through northern Serbia, forming an alluvial plain up to 4,000 meters thick and is part of the broad Pannonia Plain. (What is an alluvial plain point here)
It is a country's main agricultural area with fertile soil and rivers.
Serbia is one of the largest producers of raspberries and plums in the world today, exporting large quantities to Western Europe.
Brandy made with plums is a traditional local wine.
Serbs are particularly drinkable, with bars all over the streets and drinking competitions held every year.
Belgrade, the capital of today Serbia, is located at the confluence of the Danube and Sava rivers.
Large villages had appeared six or seven thousand years ago, and during the Roman Empire they became large cities and were known as cities on the water.
Until the 6th century AD, Serbia was the domain of the Roman Empire.
Even many Roman emperors were born here, such as the famous Constantine.
A large number of Roman ruins remain to this day.
Located between the three continents of Europe, Asia and Africa, the Balkan Peninsula is a bridge between Asia and Europe.
At the end of the 6th century, a group of Slavs who originally lived in the area of present-day Ukraine and Belarus broke through the defenses of the Eastern Roman Empire and came here in a mighty way.
These Slavs were physically strong and brave and belligerent, so that the natives who had lived here could only hide in the mountains.
These indigenous peoples are today's Albanians, living in the Region of Kosovo in the mountains of southwestern Serbia.
The Slavic tribes fought each other for many years, influenced by the surrounding countries, and gradually formed various branches.
These include the Slovenes, Croats, Serbs and other fraternal peoples on the peninsula today.
There is a Yugoslav tribe that settles in the middle and lower reaches of the Sava River and is called the Serbs.
Living in the middle of the gap between the Eastern Roman Empire and the Bulgarian Empire, it was played by the two great powers in turn.
In the 9th century, the Seville people followed the Eastern Roman Empire to believe in Christ, still the most orthodox and conservative Orthodox Church, and began to use the Kirill alphabet invented by missionaries.
Tesla, a world-famous Serbian electrical engineer, was the child of an Orthodox priest.
Today we use mobile phones for wireless communication thanks to his inventions, and Belgrade International Airport is named after him.
In the 12th century, while the Eastern Roman Empire was at war with Hungary, a Serbian kingdom was quietly born.
During the 200-year Nayana dynasty, Serbia had a unified church and its own literary genre.
Watching the Eastern Roman Empire shrink and expand rapidly into the Balkans, expanding its territory to almost half a peninsula.
The Then Grand Duke Dušan of Serbia was known as "Emperor of the Serbs, Greeks, Bulgarians and Albanians".
After hundreds of years of bullying, he finally turned over, which was the golden age of the Serbs' pride.
To this day, the Naimanian dynasty looks like the two-headed eagle emblem of two roasted geese, and still appears on the national flag and national emblem.
In 1354, the burgeoning Ottoman Turks began to invade Serbia.
The Serb resistance was fierce, and the two armies fought fiercely in the Kosovo area, with both the Grand Duke of Serbia and the Sultan of Turkey killed.
But in the end, it was attacked by Turkey's iron hoof machete, and Serbia became a frontier of the Ottoman Turkish Empire.
Belgrade gradually became an oriental city, and Ottoman architecture and mosques appeared in Serbia.
The Ottoman Empire adopted a policy of ethnic differentiation in order to prevent the Serbs from becoming larger.
With preferential policies, some Serbs were induced to convert from Eastern politics to Islam, and this part of the people are now Muslims in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
At this time, Serbia once again stood in the gap between the empire, the Turkish Empire in the east and the Austrian Habsburg Dynasty in the west.
Serbia became the forefront of the confrontation between the two major religions of the East and the West, and the land was repeatedly crushed by the war of the empire.
Among them, Belgrade was occupied by the Austrians three times, and retaken by the Turks, and was razed to the ground each time.
In the face of imperial power, the Serbs never gave up.
In this mountainous country, deep mountain forest villages have become the home of civil resistance organizations, and uprisings large and small have never stopped.
Nish's Skull Tower was built from the head of an insurgent.
The entire 19th century was an era of nationalism around the world, and Serbia also set off a wave of national rejuvenation.
A concept emerged that denied that all Yugoslavs were one nation and formed a Serb nation.
Moreover, the Serbian language was created, and a trend of thought that expanded into a Balkan power centered on Serbia appeared, known as Greater Serbianism.
At that time, the Balkan Peninsula was the base camp of national division, and all ethnic groups had the idea of being the bosses in the process of getting rid of the rule of powerful countries and striving for national liberation and national independence.
The territorial claims of each country overlap and overlap, and in the process of Serbia becoming the dominant power, there are many contradictions with other ethnic groups.
At the same time, this is the peak time for the expansion of European powers.
The Balkans have so-so-so agricultural conditions and few decent minerals, but this geographical location with rivers and seas has deeply attracted European powers.
Germany intended to build a railway through the Balkans and go directly to Iraq, Britain wanted to be closer to India, Russia wanted a balkan port, to the Mediterranean Sea, and there were many contradictions between the great powers.
In this international context, the various small peoples in the Balkans have each found a big brother to support themselves, directly confronted each other, retaliated against each other, and brewed a century of bitter wine for countless cruel killings in the future.
In 1914, a Serbian student under the age of 20 was still confused and played a big ticket.
The assassination of the visiting Crown Prince and his wife in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on the streets of Sarajevo today, gave the great powers an excuse to undress and dry up, triggering world war I.
Austria-Hungary declared war, the land of Serbia became the main battlefield, 58% of the soldiers died, the highest death rate in World War I.
In 1918, after the end of World War I, the Austro-Hungarian Empire went offline.
As the victorious power, Serbia united all the southern Slavic settlements occupied by the former Austro-Hungarian Empire to form a balkan power that had been dreamed of for many years, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
Finally becoming the boss, the king is a bit fluttery.
Relying on the military power in hand, in all aspects of political economy, the Serbs and Orthodox Churches are supported and discriminated against other ethnic groups.
More than 90 per cent of the main leaders in the military and government are Serbs, sowing the seeds of division early on.
Before they could split, World War II broke out, and Yugoslavia was divided between Germany and his horses.
During the Nazi occupation in Germany, ethnic and religious contradictions were exploited and incited to persecute and massacre Serbs, Jews, Gypsies and other ethnic groups.
Hundreds of thousands of ethnic Serbs have been killed in present-day Croatia, provoking bitter hatred between the two fraternal peoples, Croats and Serbs.
More and more Serbs joined a Yugoslav partisan group led by Tito.
Although Tito was a factory fitter, he was a military genius, and the well-equipped German army was often confused by him.
In the end, the Yugoslavs won the war at the cost of the deaths of 1.7 million people (11% of the total population).
It also became the only country in World War II that did not rely on foreign forces to liberate the whole territory.
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In 1945, with the help of the Soviets, a socialist federal republic was established on the basis of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, once again standing in the gap between the two camps of the United States and the Soviet Union in the Cold War.
Tito was very characterful, insisting on not reconciling with the Soviet Union and maintaining normal relations with Western countries.
Promote the policy of national independence and self-determination, equality of all ethnic groups, and advocate that everyone is the same Yugoslavs.
Although the Serbs are the largest ethnic group with 36 per cent of the population, there is no benefit.
Recovering from the shadow of war, Yugoslavia's economy developed rapidly, becoming the world's seventh-largest industrial country in the 1980s.
By 1976, 36 percent of Yugoslav families had cars, half had televisions, and people could travel abroad for vacations.
But with Tito's death, the once-covered national problems were exposed.
President Milosevic dreamed of a big brother in the Balkans and promoted Greater Serbianism, and the differences between the various countries became more and more widespread, and finally the federation broke up.
In the first decade of the 1990s, the Yugoslav Federation, which had existed for 43 years, split into today's very 6+1.
6 small states, and 1 independent Kosovo.
Most tragically, in the process of division, there have been local wars and ethnic cleansing in ethnically mixed areas of various countries, resulting in 300,000 casualties.
Neighbors shot at each other, and the brothers who ran on the pitch together yesterday looked like strangers.
In 1995, in Srebrenica, on the Serbian-Bosnian border, 8,000 Muslim men were massacred en masse.
In 1999, the conflict in the Kosovo region escalated, and the United States finally couldn't help it.
Belgrade suffered 212 airstrikes, including the bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia.
Today, Chinese tourists will come to the old embassy site to commemorate the three innocent Chinese journalists who died.
The question of Kosovo remains unresolved, and all these changes have pushed Serbia into the abyss of disaster.
The devastation of war and international sanctions have set back the standard of living of the population by 40 years, and the standard of living of 85 per cent of the population has fallen to the level of extreme poverty.
After 1991, millions of people, including young people, well-educated intellectuals and skilled skilled workers, emigrated abroad.
But because of the war, Serbs are very pessimistic about the future of the country, and to this day, people are willing to exchange money for dollars and euros, and no one wants to hold their own currency.
The war sharpened the tough and strong national character of modern Serbs, and concentrated on the invincibility of basketball, volleyball, football, tennis and other competitive sports.
The world's major sports powers have all tasted being crushed by small countries of 7 million people.
Fortunately, today, the war-torn land has finally returned to peace, and Serbia is willing to abandon narrow nationalism and start dialogue with neighboring countries on an equal footing.
At the same time, it actively applies to join the European Union and maintains good relations with Russia.
Not being an enemy of the world and learning the wisdom to survive in the cracks is the only option to change the fate of the country.
On this balkan knot, there are too many hatred and blood debts, and too many sad stories.
I hope that the song on the Danube River can smooth out the bullet holes in the wall, and the smiling faces in the sunflower fields can dissolve people's pain.
We do not distinguish between you and me, and we are brothers and sisters, which is the most precious hope of this world.