The History of the Humiliation of Old China What humiliation did Old China suffer?

On August 29, 1842, the Qing Dynasty and Britain signed an unequal treaty of humiliating the country, the Sino-British Treaty of Nanjing. Every patriotic descendant of Yan and Huang will never forget this day, it is the first national shame day in modern history! The "Treaty of Nanjing" had disastrous consequences for Chinese society, as the imperialist powers invaded, plundered, and carved up China, and from then on, China began to transform from an independent sovereign state to a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society in accordance with Article 2 of the treaty.

The Treaty of Shimonoseki was a treaty signed by the Qing Dynasty of China and Japan on April 17, 1895 (March 23, 21st year of Guangxu), formerly known as the "Shimonoseki New Treaty", and Japan is also known as the Shimonoseki Treaty or the Nissin Peace Treaty (Nissin Peace Treaty). It includes 11 paragraphs of the Peace Treaty, 3 paragraphs of the Treaty of Peace, 3 paragraphs of the Treaty of Negotiation, and 2 paragraphs of the Extension of the Armistice. The signing of the Treaty of Shimonoseki marked the end of the Sino-Japanese War (the First Sino-Japanese War).

The Chinese side was represented by Li Hongzhang and Li Jingfang, and the Japanese side was represented by Hirobumi Ito and Mutsu Munemitsu.

In 1840, the Opium War, and in 1842, China and Britain signed the Treaty of Nanjing, and China began to degenerate into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society;

From 1856 to 1860, the Second Opium War further degenerated into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society;

In 1895, the Sino-Japanese War led to the signing of the Treaty of Shimonoseki, which greatly deepened China's semi-colonial and semi-feudal society.

The Eight-Nation Alliance's war of aggression against China in 1900 and the Treaty of Xinchou signed in 1901 marked China's complete degeneration into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society.

In 1919, at the Paris Peace Conference, the great powers carved up China, and China was forced to sign the "Twenty-one Articles" that humiliated the country, which became the fuse of the May Fourth Patriotic Movement;

In 1937, the Japanese army invaded China in an all-out way, and the eight-year-long War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out. However, in 1945, the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression marked the end of China's old society, the collapse of semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, and the end of a century of humiliation.

China has been ravaged for 5,000 years, and China's history is a history of humiliation, constantly surrounded by wars, constantly changing dynasties, lacking national cohesion, and not having a unified ideology.

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1) The First Opium War from 1840 to 1842: The first unequal treaty in modern Chinese history, the Treaty of Nanjing, was signed, Hong Kong Island was ceded, 21 million silver dollars were paid, treaty ports were opened, and tariff autonomy was lost. China began to degenerate into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal country.

2) The Second Opium War from 1856 to 1860: The "Treaty of Tianjin" was signed, and the "Beijing Treaty" paid a total of 16 million taels**, opened ten treaty ports, opened Tianjin as a commercial port, and ceded the local area of the Kowloon Division to the British. During this period, British and French forces burned down the Old Summer Palace in the western suburbs of Beijing.

3) Sino-French War of 1883-1885: Although China won the war with the signing of the Sino-French New Treaty, due to the weakness and incompetence of the rulers, France won without victory, and China was defeated without defeat.

4) 1984-1895 Sino-Japanese War: signed the Treaty of Shimonoseki, paid an indemnity of 200 million taels, opened 4 additional treaty ports, ceded Taiwan Island and the Penghu Islands to Japan, and allowed Japan to open factories in treaty ports.

5) In 1901, the Eight-Nation Coalition War of Aggression against China: The "Xinchou Treaty" was signed, and the indemnity was 100 million taels, and the Qing ** led by the Empress Dowager Cixi was completely reduced to a tool for the great powers to rule China, and China was completely reduced to a semi-colonial and semi-feudal country.

6) In 1905, in order to become emperor, Yuan Shikai accepted the "Twenty-one Articles" of Japan's destruction of China.

7) At the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, China, as the victorious power, not only did not meet its due demands, but was humiliated by the foreign powers.

8) In 1931, 1935 and 1937, Japan gradually invaded China in an all-out way, and China's national crisis was unprecedentedly serious.

The unequal treaties of Nanjing, Hong Kong and Macau.