Why did China, which was once very powerful in history, suffer from bullying and ravages in modern times, and finally became a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, with a very backward economy and culture, and the broad masses of people living in dire straits? Why since the leadership of China * * *, earth-shaking changes have taken place in China?
Change and get a foothold in the world quickly? Why is it that under the leadership of the Party, our motherland will become stronger and stronger, and the people will truly turn over and become masters of their own affairs?
The modern history of China, which began with the Opium War of 1840, is a history of imperialist aggression against China, a history of the reactionary government surrendering and traitorous, and a history of China people resisting imperialism and its lackeys and pursuing modernization!
Before the Opium War in China, the Qing Dynasty adopted a closed-door policy, and the self-sufficient natural economy occupied an absolute advantage in the whole social economy. The feudal rule of the Qing dynasty was increasingly decadent and unable to resist foreign aggression, which provided opportunities for capitalist invasion.
Since the Opium War, the western powers forced the corrupt Qing government to sign many unequal treaties by force, and seized China's sovereignty and huge wealth through the treaty of nanking, Tientsin, Peking, treaty of shimonoseki and Xin Chou treaties, and controlled China's political, economic, military, diplomatic, financial, cultural, educational and national defense powers, which brought endless disasters to the Chinese nation. The Qing government was feudal and backward. At first, it was blind and arrogant and closed to the outside world. After the invasion of foreign capitalism, it only experienced a brief confrontation. When they realized that foreign invaders didn't want to overthrow the Qing regime, but wanted to trade and plunder wealth, they began to kneel down, betrayed national interests, and put the suppression of the people first, exposing their ugly faces of hostility to the people. After the Second Opium War, the Qing government colluded with imperialism to suppress the Taiping Rebellion. During the Sino-French War, China won a great victory in Zhennan, and the Qing government signed an unequal treaty with the French invaders to betray sovereignty. During the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the Qing government implemented the line of compromise and surrender, suppressed the people's anti-aggression struggle, and caused the war to fail in an all-round way. Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China, and the Qing Dynasty dignitaries headed by Cixi fled to xi 'an. After the war, Cixi announced that she would "measure China's material resources and win the favor of the country", which fully exposed her ugly face as a slave with no sense of shame. After the Revolution of 1911, with the support of different imperialists, Beiyang warlords scuffled, and the governments of Beiyang warlords alternated like lanterns, and the people were miserable.
It can be seen that the corrupt, incompetent, extremely weak and closed-door government is the root of bullying the weak and fearing the hard in modern China.
Although the Qing government was extremely ignorant and decadent, the people of China never stopped fighting. From anti-imperialism to anti-feudalism, the broad masses of the people have always been the main force. Countless heroic and tragic struggles against foreign invaders, such as the magnificent peasant uprising in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the people's struggle against Britain in Sanyuanli, the Boxer Rebellion against Eight-Nation Alliance's aggression, the Reform Movement of 1898, which called for saving the country and the people, the Revolution of 1911, which overthrew the "Westernization School", the struggle against the Beiyang warlords who were traitors and dictatorships, the May 4th New Culture Movement, which demanded democracy and science, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, who opposed Japanese imperialism, and Chiang Kai-shek.
At the beginning of the invasion of China by foreign capitalism, the masses of the people took the completely opposite road to the reactionary rulers. When the feudal rulers were weak and compromised, the people shouldered the sacred task of defending the interests of the country and the nation.
The people of all ethnic groups in China fought bravely and tenaciously, saving the survival of the nation, avoiding the fate of becoming a colony and sacrificing tens of millions of martyrs. History has fully proved that no difficulty can elude the people of China! China people are the greatest people! The Chinese nation is an invincible nation and the greatest nation!
Summarizing the revolutionary struggle experience of the people in modern China, we can see that every peasant uprising in modern history ended in failure, which shows that the peasant class can not completely complete the anti-imperialist and anti-feudal tasks; The failure of the Reform Movement of 1898 showed that the road of peaceful improvement could not save China. Although the Revolution of 1911 overthrew the rule of the Qing Dynasty and ended the feudal monarchy, the fruits of its victory were finally stolen by Yuan Shikai, and China still did not get rid of the semi-colonial and semi-feudal tragic situation. These failures show that, although the peasant class and the China bourgeoisie were the main forces against imperialism and feudalism in modern China, their class limitations made it impossible for them to accomplish the revolutionary tasks against imperialism and feudalism.
After the Revolution of 1911, the working class in China grew, especially in the May 4th Movement, which laid a class foundation for the new-democratic revolution. Because the working class in China is heavily oppressed and exploited by the three mountains of imperialism, feudalism and bureaucratic capitalism, it has the firmness and thoroughness of revolution. Especially after the birth of China, the vanguard of the working class in China, he insisted on taking Marxism–Leninism as the guiding ideology and led the people of China to find the correct revolutionary road. Since then, the China Revolution has gone from one victory to another until the establishment of a new socialist China. History has proved that only China can lead the China revolution to victory, and only socialism can save China.
Learning historical knowledge, especially the knowledge of China's modern history, can not only "make the past serve the present" and "take history as a mirror" to improve one's theoretical level, but also comprehensively grasp the national conditions, correctly understand and consciously implement the party's basic theory, basic line, basic program and various principles and policies, and strive to build China into a prosperous, strong, democratic and civilized socialist country.
Studying and studying modern history will not only make everyone in China cherish today's hard-won happy life, but also inspire our patriotic enthusiasm, inspire the strong cohesion of the people of China, and selflessly dedicate all their intelligence and wisdom in the great cause of building a modern and powerful socialist country.
At the same time, we must be soberly aware that today's world is not peaceful, hegemonism and power politics are rampant, and diehards who are trying to "westernize" and "divide" China still exist. Therefore, we should seriously study the modern history of China, carry forward the spirit of patriotism, make our motherland stronger, and let the Chinese nation stand forever among the nations of the world!
China is unbeaten! The motherland will win!