In the modern history of China, from 1840 to 1945, the first opium war broke out in the year of Qing Daoguang 19 (Gregorian calendar 1840), and the British used guns to uncover the veil of the mysterious ancient oriental country's isolation and seized rich benefits.
China's modern history is an epic masterpiece. All the characteristics of Chinese civilization have been vividly displayed in this history of more than 100 years. How humiliating the front is, how shocking the rise behind it is. Don't treat it in isolation.
In the era of crazy colonization by world powers, we survived tenaciously. Countless ancestors practiced the great ideal of saving the nation from extinction by all means they could think of. The feudal bureaucrats launched the Westernization Movement, the peasants at the bottom set up the Boxer Rebellion, and the bourgeoisie launched the democratic revolution, and finally * * * completed the great mission of saving Chinese civilization.
The ancestors used their blood and heads to keep lighting the torch in the dark, one after another, generation after generation, and finally ignited the vitality of China. The Chinese civilization, kneeling on the ground, stood up bit by bit, and finally had the courage and strength to face all challenges and defeat all enemies who still wanted to act recklessly.
British Ziyingshi thought we were still the Qing government, so he blew it up. Americans thought that we were still the sick man of East Asia in the19th century, so they pushed him from Yalu River to the south of the 38th parallel. India thought that our army could still be bullied by others, so it beat the shit out of him.