Was the Song Dynasty the beginning of the weakening of ancient China?

The Song Dynasty was not the beginning of China's decline, but from the Anshi Rebellion during the Tang Dynasty of China, which was the beginning of China's decline.

No, the decline of ancient China really began with Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty deposing the hundred schools of thought and respecting Dong Zhongshu's Confucianism.

The Song Dynasty was not the beginning of the decline of ancient China, China was the most powerful country in the world until the Ming Dynasty, and the real decline began in the late Ming Dynasty.

The emphasis on literature and light on military force led to military weakness, mediocrity of the emperor, political corruption, complaints from the people, poor livelihood, and empty treasury.

No, ancient history can be traced back to the early Qing Dynasty, and the Kangqian era was the afterglow of the setting sun of the feudal empire.

The Song Dynasty was just one of the local secession regimes at that time!

And the connotation of China is to take Chinese culture as the core!

There was no Han after Yashan, and the Han civilization was broken for the first time.

The demise of the Song Dynasty only marked the beginning of China's feudal era, which began to weaken, and the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty was the end of the feudal system.

It should be said that it is accurate to say that the Chinese nation and the Mongolian and other ethnic minorities had a great ethnic fusion, and it cannot be said that it was the demise of ancient China, because the Ming Dynasty was established very quickly.

Does your demise mean the demise of humanity?

It is not the demise of China, but the belief that after the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, the spirit of the Chinese nation lost its inheritance, which comes from the saying ---There is no China after Yashan."

The Battle of Yashan was the last organized resistance of the Song Dynasty to the Mongol invasion, and more than 100,000 people were martyred in the sea. After this war, for the first time in history, China was completely lost to foreign peoples. The Battle of Yashan was also an important turning point in Chinese history.

The process of China's independent development was interrupted, the once highly developed economy, culture, science and technology, the bureaucratic system that combined the imperial examination with the world, the imperial power that began to be limited, the advanced political system, etc., were interrupted, and the Yuan Dynasty, which was ruled by the backward Mongols, began to implement a closed, conservative, light industry and commerce and a more centralized system, and officially took Cheng Zhu Lixue as the main content of the imperial examination and the official ideology of the first class; Later, the Ming Dynasty, which overthrew the Meng Yuan and established it, went to a conservative and closed road. Many foreign historians regard the fall of the Song Dynasty as the end of China in the classical sense, and the so-called "after Yashan, there is no more China".

How is it possible, and if it is, then what is China now?

There are two main reasons for the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty:

1. At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Northern Song Dynasty faced a very dangerous and embarrassing situation geographically. The first is the loss of natural danger, the powerful Khitan Liao State in the north occupies the sixteen states of Yanyun, and has an absolute military and geographical advantage over the Central Plains Dynasty in the south, and the same is true for the Jin State that rose in the future. The second is that the geographical location of the capital is very passive, ancient China built the capital often in Xi'an, Luoyang, Chengdu, Beijing and other places, these places without exception are easy to defend and difficult to attack the city by virtue of natural dangers, but Kaifeng is not, Kaifeng Bianliang is located on the south bank of the Yellow River, surrounded by a plain of Pingchuan, there is no danger to defend, this geographical congenital deficiency caused by the military disadvantage is very fatal.

2, compared with the Song army and the Jin army, there is indeed a gap. The main gap lies neither in equipment nor in quantity, but in the quality and management of the army. The Song army already had many problems, such as insufficient soldiers, the old and weak, and extremely abnormal military training.

And Huizong handed over the army to Tong Guan and Yu Xing, the eunuchs who did not understand military affairs at all and only knew how to curry favor with the emperor, for a long time. They "relied on their own good fortune and had nothing to fear, and they were in charge of the military and political affairs, but they invaded the military camps, used their private interests to occupy more forbidden troops, and used them to serve as a force," resulting in corruption in the military and political administration.

The Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) is a dynasty in Chinese history after the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and the Southern Song Dynasty is called the Song Dynasty, also known as the Two Song Dynasty, because the royal family surname Zhao, also known as Zhao Song, passed on nine emperors, and enjoyed the country for 167 years. In 960, the generals of the Later Zhou Dynasty launched the Chenqiao Mutiny, supported Zhao Kuangyin as the emperor, and Zhao Kuangyin changed the name of the country to Song and set the capital Bianliang. Later, the military power was released through a glass of wine, and the military power and financial power were concentrated in **, which avoided the chaos of the division of the Tang Dynasty in the middle and late Tang Dynasty.

But it also led to the Song Dynasty's defeat in the wars with the Liao and Western Xia. In the first year of Jingkang (1126), the Jingkang disaster occurred, and the Jin soldiers were on Bianliang and perished the following year.

We all know that when Zhao Kuangyin established the Northern Song Dynasty, it was to prevent the repetition of the history of the late Tang Dynasty and the five dynasties and ten kingdoms, so he made a large-scale adjustment of the army, first of all, to take back the military power of the forbidden army from the hands of the generals.

I think that the Northern Song Dynasty has been a bane since its establishment. Why? First of all, Zhao Kuangyin, the founder of the Northern Song Dynasty, was born in a military family and fought with the army when he was young.

This laid the foundation for his later establishment of the Song Dynasty, and Zhao Kuangyin was a humble person who was deeply loved by his subordinates. Other emperors fought to the death to sit on the throne, but Zhao Kuangyin was pushed up by his subordinates, and the whole process was relatively simple.

It is precisely because of his character that heroes from all walks of life came to submit to him, it can be said that there was no shortage of heroes in the Northern Song Dynasty at that time, and the combat effectiveness of the army was also very strong. But what is more embarrassing is that in the second year of Qiande in the Northern Song Dynasty, in order to strengthen the centralization of power, Zhao Kuangyin had an incident of releasing military power with a glass of wine, threatening and luring, and demanding that senior generals hand over their military power.

not only required the generals to hand over the right to send troops, but even dismissed some troops that could fight. And the remaining ones, although easy to control, most of them have no combat effectiveness. After Zhao Guangyi came to power, in order to prove his strength and make some achievements, he sent troops to eliminate Houshu, but these people in his hands basically had no combat effectiveness, and the Song army was defeated.

The Northern Song Dynasty began to weaken from this time, and later Zhao Guangyi lowered the social status of the soldiers again in order to prevent mutiny and stabilize his position. Even the tactical and strategic construction of the army was not paid attention to, and this laid the foundation for the destruction of the Northern Song Dynasty. In 1127, the Jin soldiers besieged Kaifeng, and the Song Dynasty did little resistance, and Song Huizong fell into the trap and became a prisoner of the Jin State.

In fact, the Northern Song Dynasty was different from other dynasties, and many dynasties perished because they were poor, the people had no food to eat, and the army had no combat effectiveness. The economy of the Northern Song Dynasty was very prosperous, at that time Kaifeng was the most prosperous city in the world, if it is placed today, it is equivalent to New York in the United States, that is to say, the Northern Song Dynasty is still very strong in economic development.

The only drawback is that even if you don't pay attention to the army, a country so rich without a strong army will eventually be taken away by the great powers. Therefore, the Song Dynasty was the most unjust dynasty, the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, and the country's economy was prosperous, but in the end it lost the world.

The main reason for the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty was that the Northern Song Dynasty court wanted to use the strength of Jin to recover the lost territory that was occupied, so the angel and Jin contacted the two sides to make an alliance to attack the Liao Dynasty The early Northern Song Dynasty troops were defeated by the Liao army, and the Jin army was like a bamboo, successively captured the capital of Liao and many areas, and Liao was destroyed by Jin in 1125. In the course of military treatment in the Northern Song Dynasty, Jinzhai saw the political corruption and military incompetence of the Northern Song Dynasty, so he launched a war against the Song Dynasty after destroying the Liao. In the face of the powerful offensive of the Jin army, Song Huizong and Song Qinzhuang were powerless and unwilling to resist, and only thought of compromise and peace.

In 1127, the Jin army broke through Kaifeng, and the Northern Song Dynasty perished.

Of course, the most important reason for the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty came from the strength of external enemies. The long-term emphasis on literature and military suppression made the Northern Song Dynasty militarily disparity with the strength of the Jin soldiers. In the second year of Jingkang in the Northern Song Dynasty, the Jin soldiers invaded the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, and at the same time controlled the two emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty, Song Huizong and Song Qinzong, and took away a large number of ** royal families, and the Northern Song Dynasty perished.

Because the emperor reused Cai Jing, Gao Yu, Yang Jian, and Tong Guan to kill Song Jiang and Lu Junyi, who were both loyal and righteous, otherwise, with the talents of Song Jiang and Lu Junyi, it would be absolutely impossible to make Jin Bing rampant.

The reasons for the fall of the Song Dynasty were manifold, including internal and external factors. The external factors mainly came from the invasion of the Mongol Empire, and the Mongol army launched three wars of aggression during the Southern Song Dynasty, and finally captured Lin'an, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, forcing the Southern Song Emperor Xuantong to surrender, marking the end of the Southern Song Dynasty. Internal factors include political, military, economic, and cultural problems, such as political corruption in the Song Dynasty, infighting among the bureaucratic and dusty brigade classes, backward military equipment, bottlenecks in economic development, and gradual poverty in cultural connotation, all of which led to the decline and demise of the Song Dynasty.