The reasons for the humiliation of old China, and what humiliation did old China suffer

1.The quality of the population is low, the ruling class.

Deliberately neglecting to suppress people's education.

2.to Confucian culture.

Crazy distortion and reverence.

3.Emphasis on literature over force.

4.The long-term leadership of civilization leads to arrogance and complacency.

The above are most of the reasons for the humiliation of old China.

1 Because China does not work hard to develop in terms of history, once a foreign envoy came to meet him and kowtowed, the emperor was very happy, and he thought he was the best in the world, so he closed the country and only opened 5 ports a year, so he couldn't keep up with the times.

2 After the Opium War and the Second Opium War, Chinese generally smoked big cigarettes and were called the sick men of East Asia.

3 Foreigners attacked China Cixi began to send troops to attack, and after several defeats, she had to advocate surrender and let the foreigners gain an inch.

4 The Failure of the Westernization Movement For example, when China got a train, it used a horse-drawn carriage because the train was so loud that it would alarm the graves of our ancestors.

The shells were all "tofu scum" During the First Sino-Japanese War, the Chinese Navy suffered greatly.

Whether these four points are enough or not, I will think about it again.

Corruption and incompetence of the Qing **.

The history of Chinese humiliation.

The main reason is that we are not strong enough, development is the last word, and the country is rich and the people are strong.

In addition to the war of aggression against China, the most humiliating thing is, of course, the signing of unequal treaties, and the following is a timetable for signing treaties:

1842 Treaty of Nanjing

1843 "Five Ports Trade Charter" and "Humen Treaty" - a supplementary treaty to the "Treaty of Nanjing", 1844 Sino-US "Wangxia Treaty", Sino-French "Whampoa Treaty".

1858 Treaty of Tientsin, Treaty of Aihui

1860 Treaty of Peking

1864 "Survey and Demarcation of the Northwest Boundary".

1881 Treaty of Ili

1885 Sino-French New Testament

1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki

1901 Treaty of Xincho

It's too much, 1937...

War aggression such as the Opium War, oppression and plunder by imperial colonialism.

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 year 1840 was a history of humiliation for us, starting with the Opium War.

The two Opium Wars, the burning of the Old Summer Palace in 1860 (this year marks the 150th anniversary of the burning of the Old Summer Palace), the Sino-Japanese First Sino-Japanese Naval War that began in 1894, the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Coalition in 1900, and a series of unequal treaties (such as the Treaty of Nanjing, the Treaty of Beijing, the Treaty of Tianjin, the Treaty of Shimonoseki, etc.).

There were many Opium Wars, there were many unequal treaties, and there were also the invasions of China by the Eight Powers.