Moreover, because the Qing Dynasty was a dynasty dominated by ethnic minorities, for some people who held the theory of Han nationality as the main body, their hearts were always bumpy and they could not get through. Therefore, there are many denials of the Qing Dynasty, and even deep doubts about the "prosperous time of Kanggan" that appeared in the Qing Dynasty. I think this is a false prosperity, but it is not the case.
(Minister of Civil and Military Affairs of Manchu Dynasty)
In fact, if we don't look at the Qing Dynasty through colored glasses, we will find that the Qing Dynasty, as an ancient dynasty, made great contributions to the ancient historical development of China. What are the contributions?
First, the long-standing North-South conflict in China has been eliminated.
In ancient China, the Han nationality occupied the Central Plains, while the ethnic minorities lived in the cold places in the north. Because the places where the northern nationalities live are not only cold and harsh, but also do not produce crops. However, it is impossible for the northern nationalities to eat beef and mutton without food at all. To eat food, they can only exchange it with the Han nationality living in the Central Plains.
But this kind of communication is usually not smooth, and the northern nationalities are eager to communicate. They think robbery can solve the problem neatly. So they will definitely raid south. In this way, there is bound to be a war between the north and the south.
This kind of war can be said to have existed since ancient times, and it was not until the Qing Dynasty that this problem was well solved.
The Qing Dynasty itself was a northern nation. After entering the Central Plains, he actively pursued the policy of sinicization. Although it was very antagonistic to the Han people in the early days, it gradually merged. At the same time, the Qing dynasty also adopted the method of intermarriage from generation to generation, which eliminated their conflict with another Mongolian nationality in the north. In this way, the Qing Dynasty actually eliminated the contradiction between the North and the South. In the Ming Dynasty, it was no longer necessary to rebuild the Great Wall of Wan Li, and it took too much manpower and material resources to set up Jiubianjun Town to guard against the North.
(Foreign negotiations)
Secondly, the Qing Dynasty realized the unification of Chinese territory in history.
The Chinese nation is not a militant nation and is not aggressive. However, due to the constant conflict and integration between ethnic groups, the territory of the whole Chinese nation is in the process of development from small to large in history.
Speaking, in the ancient history of China, the territory of the Yuan Dynasty seems to be the largest. However, after the Yuan Dynasty entered the Central Plains, it had no actual control over a large part of the north, or was too lazy to take care of it. At home, the Yuan Dynasty also implemented a hierarchical system, so the Yuan Dynasty did not actually control the south effectively. In addition, the history of the Yuan Dynasty is very short, so the Yuan Dynasty is not a complete unified dynasty. A completely unified dynasty can only be the Qing Dynasty.
Of course, at the end of the Qing dynasty, the Qing government did cut out a lot of land. However, even if a lot of land was cut down, the territory eventually owned by the Qing Dynasty was still one of the largest in the ancient dynasty.
The unification of territory is of vital importance to the Chinese nation. When the Chinese nation is in a unified situation, the whole country can be peaceful and stable. On the other hand, if the territory cannot be reunified, then the Chinese nation will suffer internal friction and struggle with each other for reunification again.
For example, in the Ming Dynasty before the Qing Dynasty, because the northern and southern territories could not be unified, the Ming Dynasty needed to spend too much energy on national defense, which greatly weakened the overall strength of the Ming Dynasty. For example, in the Song Dynasty, because the territory was not unified, the war was always a shadow. Although the Northern Song Dynasty used the single-source alliance to make the country relatively stable, in the Southern Song Dynasty, foreign war was an issue that needed to be considered all the time.
Therefore, the unification of the Qing Dynasty is very important to the Chinese nation.
(Manchu-Mongolian marriage)
Third, the Qing Dynasty achieved the best national integration of the Chinese nation.
Some people may resent the concept of ethnic integration. Starting from the narrow Han chauvinism, they thought that the Qing Dynasty was the occupation of the Han nationality by ethnic minorities.
Obviously, this statement is wrong. In fact, in the whole ancient society, even in the era when the Han nationality was dominant, ethnic integration still existed in large numbers. After all kinds of wars in turbulent times, all kinds of migrations, all kinds of marriages in peacetime, and so on, all ethnic groups of the Chinese nation have long been inseparable from each other.
Even the post-Jin Dynasty in the early Qing Dynasty, although the post-Jin Dynasty was mainly a descendant of the Jin State, the Jin State itself was the result of the mixed residence of Han and ethnic minorities (after all, a large number of Han and Jurchen merged after the sixteen states were incorporated into the Jin State), and it was also the result of repeated integration of several northern ethnic minorities (especially Mongols).
After the Qing Dynasty unified all ethnic groups in China and occupied the Central Plains, it implemented a large-scale sinicization policy. Therefore, it can be said that the Qing Dynasty made the greatest contribution to the national integration of the whole Chinese nation in history.
In a word, the Qing Dynasty, as the last dynasty in China's feudal era, really played a positive role in promoting the historical development of the Chinese nation.