In the current perception of most people, the Qing Dynasty is a weak dynasty that is dim-witted and corrupt, cutting land and betraying the country, after all, in the more than 100 years since the Opium War, the Qing Dynasty has brought China into the ranks

In the current perception of most people, the Qing Dynasty is a weak dynasty that is dim-witted and corrupt, cutting land and betraying the country, after all, in the more than 100 years after the Opium War, the Qing Dynasty brought China into the modern semi-feudal and semi-colonial society that was slaughtered by the great powers, and led to the Japanese invasion and almost annihilation of the country. These are all facts, but the first half of the Qing Dynasty's life is brilliant, no matter how to evaluate it, it is a good dynasty in Chinese history, and the martial arts of Wenzhi are not inferior to the Han and Tang dynasties.

Objectively speaking, the performance of the Qing Dynasty in the Chinese dynasties is relatively good: the emperors have been very diligent, which is very critical, a group of dimwitted monarchs can not support a strong dynasty. The centralization of power and absolute monarchy in the Qing Dynasty reached a historical peak, and the emperors did not strike, absent from work, did not push the workload to the eunuchs around them, and even the absurd, incompetent and mentally retarded emperor did not produce one, which was quite difficult. Compared with the last dynasty established by the Han Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty, the Daoist Emperor Jiajing, who did not go to the dynasty for 20 years, devoted himself to the pursuit of immortality; the carpenter Emperor Tianqi handed over the administrative affairs to the eunuch Wei Zhongxian. The Qing Dynasty respected Confucianism, carried forward Confucianism, and used this self-restraint to openly promise to "never add money", and really achieved low taxes and gifts in law and on the surface; the Qing Dynasty was economically prosperous and maintained social stability for two hundred years. From the late Ming Dynasty onwards, the Chinese began to grow dramatically, and the Qing Dynasty not only fed hundreds of millions more people than the previous dynasties, but also contributed to the last prosperous era of traditional society: the Kangqian Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty's Chinese territory covered an area of more than 2 million square kilometers, the Great Wall in the north and Gansu in the west were considered to be abroad, while the Qing Dynasty was full of martial virtue, recovered Xinjiang, which had been separated from China for more than a thousand years, and for the first time included Mongolia and Tibet in China's territory, expanding China's land area to 11 million square kilometers.

Why did the Qing Dynasty finally fall to the point of cutting off land and paying reparations and allowing the great powers to bully and humiliate, or because the past was too strong, so strong that it was a fan's self-confidence, to paraphrase a famous quote from Liu Cixin in "The Three-Body Problem": "Weakness and ignorance are not obstacles to survival, arrogance is."