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What is the historical embodiment of China people's national awakening after the Opium War? In the exploration of modern social strata
After the two Opium Wars, great changes have taken place in China's social and political structure, economic structure and ideological culture.

(1) Politically, before the Opium War, China was an independent feudal country. After the war, China lost a lot of sovereignty over territory, territorial sea, justice, tariffs and trade, and began to become a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society. The main contradictions, revolutionary tasks and revolutionary nature of China society have changed, and the history of China has since entered the period of the old democratic revolution.

In terms of social contradictions, due to the huge compensation, the burden of working people increased, and the aggregation of class contradictions and ethnic contradictions led to the outbreak of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, which developed the old peasant war to its peak and gave it a new era content.

(2) Economically, China's self-sufficient feudal economy gradually disintegrated. Western powers used the privilege of aggression to frantically export commodities and plunder raw materials to China for early capital export. The coastal areas and the Yangtze River basin were directly invaded by economic powers, and China was passively involved in the world capitalist market and began to be incorporated into the capitalist world economic system.

(3) ideologically, it impacted the traditional feudal concept and gained a new understanding of the relationship between "Yi Xia". The Opium War first awakened some patriotic landlord class intellectuals from their dream of "de-China", and began to pay attention to the world and learn from the West, which sprouted a new trend of thought. It shows the change of the concept of "learning from the west" and the trend of "learning from the west to the east", and opens the pace of learning from the west.