Today is October 10, 2021, 110 years ago tonight, at a time like this, the Wuchang Uprising broke out. So today is the 110th anniversary of the Xinhai Revolution.
This was the success of the first democratic revolution on the land of China in thousands of years. It is fundamentally different from the previous changes in all feudal dynasties. Since then Chinese people have embarked on the road of democratic nation-building.
Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway Locomotive
The victory was somewhat unexpected. Just ten days before the Wuchang Uprising, the Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway was opened to traffic, and for the sake of the majesty of the Qing Dynasty, the Qing government broke up with the Hong Kong and British authorities because of where the opening ceremony of the Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway was held. In desperation, a compromise was adopted, and the two sides held their own opening ceremonies. The Chinese ceremony was held in Guangzhou and the British ceremony was held in Hong Kong.
The sound of locomotives on the Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway was deafening, and only ten days later, the gunfire of the Wuchang Uprising was more intense than the sound of this locomotive. Since then, the Qing Empire has fallen. China's thousands of years of feudal family system has perished!
The Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway is connected to the Luohu Bridge in Shenzhen
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="01" > in 1840 the Eastern agrarian civilization collapsed in competition with the Western industrial civilization</h1>
110 years, in the long river of human history, is just a moment of waving.
110 years, in the long history of the Chinese nation for 5,000 years, is only a drop in the ocean, but when we look back at the history of these 110 years, the changes that have taken place during this period are more profound, complex and wonderful than those thousands of years of history.
Why has the Chinese nation been overtaken and humiliated by the small countries of the past in recent centuries when it has been leading the world politically, economically, and culturally for a long time?
The only treaty port in the Qing Dynasty, Guangzhou Thirteen Foreign Trades, was old
Since the industrial revolution in the West began in the middle of the 16th century, respect for science has become a constant driving force for social and economic development. The Manchu Qing government was still immersed in the dream of yellow sorghum in the great power of the Heavenly Dynasty and the coming of all states. In the minds of the Qing rulers, the biggest concern was the Han rebellion. They learned the lesson that the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty were mainly me, and made full use of the Confucian Taoism created by the Han people to consolidate their rule. The Silk Road, which had been opened since the Ming Dynasty, was abandoned by the Authoritarian rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and closed the coastal treaty ports. In the era when the whole world has entered mechanized large-scale production, the policy of closing the country to the outside world has completely lost the last opportunity for the Qing Dynasty to catch up with the world trend.
1840 was the beginning of the division of modern Chinese history by the social science and historical circles, and the reason why the Qing Dynasty of the next 70 years was separated from the feudal system of thousands of years was because this year was a sign of the complete decline and collapse of China's thousands of years of feudal system.
The only treaty port in the Qing Dynasty, Guangzhou Thirteen Foreign Trade Street View
For a long time, China's dynasties have regarded themselves as the great powers of the Heavenly Dynasty and the superiority of others, and the results of thousands of years of accumulation and weakness have long made this ancient civilization terminally ill. Finally in this year the concentrated outbreak. The Eastern Empire, which was strong in the middle of the country, collapsed in a single touch before the strong ships and cannons of the small western countries, and the dream of a great power was completely disintegrated and destroyed in an instant
1840 was not only the end of China's feudal dynasty. It is also the rout after the competition between the backward agricultural civilization in the East and the advanced industrial literature in the West.
Lin Zexu, the minister of Qincha who sold cigarettes in Humen
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="02" > the fire that sold cigarettes in Humen did not wake up the government of the late Qing Dynasty</h1>
In 1840, few people knew about Dongguan, and history focused on a place called Humen under the jurisdiction of Dongguan.
Here, the ambitious Chincha minister, Lin Zexu, burned the opium that had poisoned the Chinese people in Western countries. Lin Zexu originally thought that he had lit the torch to revitalize the imperial glory, but he did not expect that the imperial court thought that this was a fire that ignited the fire. In addition to Lin Zexu himself, he lost his official post and was exiled to Ili, Xinjiang.
Large tracts of rich land were seized, ceded and reparations paid. The essence of endless forbearance and cringe is the inability to resist. The incompetent representatives of the late Qing dynasty signed Gou An's name on a non-negotiable text in the form of a contract willing to fight, and one civilization plundered another civilization. The crisis of life and death suddenly befell this arrogant dynasty. What's going on?
Monument to the People's Heroes Humen sold smoke reliefs
From the perspective of history, in fact, this is a storm that will come sooner or later. The decadent political system, bureaucracy, and social system have exhausted the vitality of this ancient civilization, and in fact, the competition between countries should also be a competition of the comprehensive strength of the country's political, economic, cultural and other aspects. This already devastated empire has no strength to bind the chicken, and it is impossible for an official to assume the responsibility of protecting the country and protecting the people just by relying on the conscience, ability, and bloody loyalty and determination of an official.
Although a large number of people of insight realized that China's level of science and technology was too backward, they formulated the industrial policy of "mastering the art of mastering the art to control the yi" and launched the foreign affairs movement, but due to the limitations of the feudal dynastic system, they could not get rid of the inevitable extinction in the end.
The Republic of China diplomat Humen Wang Favored Hui
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What kind of civilization and strength does ancient China need to be rejuvenated?
Hong Xiuquan's Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement; Kang Liang's bus to write a book and the Hundred Days Restoration; and the Boxer Rebellion all reflect the courageous efforts and explorations and bloody struggles of the sons and daughters of China. However, these vigorous struggles have only backfired and are short-lived.
Li Yangjing, commander of the company of sun Yat-sen's presidential palace guard regiment, was a light-year city official
On October 10, 1911, the Wuchang Uprising, which shocked China and foreign countries, broke out, and the new revolutionary army soon occupied Wuchang. Two days later, Hanyang and Hankou were occupied by revolutionary forces one after another. Subsequently, revolutionaries in Hunan, Shaanxi, Jiangxi and other places also revolted one after another, established a revolutionary regime, and the feudal system that lasted for more than two thousand years collapsed. But the hundred-footed worm, dead but not stiff. After all, the Xinhai Revolution was the first historic change in China in the 20th century, and it took a big step forward on the road of development. However, the role of this step is still limited, and it has not fundamentally changed the nature of China's semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, and the tragic situation of the Chinese people has not ended.
Honghuagang Uprising martyr Li Wenfu of Shilong
In the decades that followed, the struggle between revolution and counter-revolution continued. Throughout the country, the revolutionaries led by Sun Yat-sen waged an extremely arduous struggle against warlords everywhere and against the Western colonialists who were trying to carve up our country.
Dongguan, which is adjacent to Guangzhou, the center of the bourgeois revolution, not only included Li Zhangda and Jiang Guangnai, who personally rushed to the Wuchang uprising, but also Mo Jipeng and martyr Li Wenfu of the Huanghuagang uprising in Guangzhou; there were also Sun Yat-sen's foreign minister Wang Zhonghui, secretary Lin Zhimian, Ye Rushou, chief of the treasury of the Grand Marshal's Office, Li Yangjing, commander of the guard regiment of Sun Yat-sen's Presidential Palace; Wang Guanghai, a major in the Patriotic Army; and Huang Xiayi, the first county magistrate of Dongguan. Chen Jiongming once secretly imprisoned Finance Minister Liao Zhongkai in Shilong for a month; Zhou Enlai, director of the Political Department of the Eastern Crusade Army, came to Dongguan Shilong and Guancheng many times to give speeches; in the dissemination of revolutionary ideas, a Cantonese opera society for propagating revolution, the Awakening Heaven Dream Drama Society, was also established.
In addition, Sun Yat-sen arrived at Shilong Town in Dongguan fourteen times and set up camps and base camps here, where Sun Yat-sen planned and led the revolutionary army to struggle against Chen Jiongming...
Lin Zhimian, secretary of Sun Yat-sen's Presidential Office
A long life has always been one of the aspirations of human beings. 110 years is not short for everyone, and when we look back at the memories left in Dongguan by the Xinhai Revolution a hundred years ago, we find that our memories are so fragile and weak. How many stories of revolution fade from our sight, and how many moments that determine the course of history are drowned out by everyday chores?
For the sake of those forgotten memories, now, we must brush aside the glitz and restlessness of history and reality, and touch and comb the pulse of the Xinhai Revolution in Dongguan.
Lin Zhimian calligraphy works
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