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Lin Zexu is the first person to open his eyes to the world.

His main deeds include: 1) setting up a translation hall, 2 organizing people to compile the "Laws of the Nations" and "Chronicles of the Four Continents", 3 copying Western warships.

Wei Yuan (1794-1857) was an enlightenment thinker, politician, and writer of the Qing Dynasty, and one of the pioneers of modern China's "opening his eyes to the world". The name is far away, the word is deep, and the word Mosheng, Hanshi, the number is good, the Han nationality, Hunan.

Shaoyang Long Hui people, Daoguang two years of people, twenty-five years of Jinshi, official high post Zhizhou, in his later years, abandoned the official and returned to seclusion, devoted to Buddhism, the name of the law is inherited. Wei Yuan believed that the purpose of "applying the ancient to the world" should be the purpose of "applying it to the world", put forward the idea of "changing the ancient to the end, and the more convenient it is", advocated the study of advanced science and technology in the West, and summed up the new idea of "mastering the skills of the master to control the country".

The political views of the two people are not much different, and they both advocate learning Western techniques to defend the rule of the Qing ** and resist foreign humiliation. It is the forerunner of China's reform.

Common. Both of them have translated Western books and introduced knowledge about Western geography and law.

Differences Lin Zexu was the first person to take the initiative to realize the importance and necessity of understanding the West, and Wei Yuan, under the influence of Lin Zexu, further put forward the idea of "mastering the skills of the master to control the West".

The similarity is that the master has a long skill to control the razor.

To put it simply, Lin Zexu learns technology, and Wei Yuan learns thought.

Lin Zexu opened China's eyes to the world's first person, Wei Yuan, and mastered Yi's long skills to control Yi.

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In China's modern history, Lin Zexu was the first person to "open his eyes to the world" and advocated understanding the West and learning from the West's advanced natural sciences and practical technologies. Summing up the lessons of the defeat in the Opium War, he held that the reason for Britain's victory was that British imperialism was "well-armed, skilled, courageous, and united." Here, Lin Zexu not only talked about the importance of the best in the war, but also talked about the importance of the quality of soldiers, that is, people.

Proceeding from this, he believes that if China wants to resist aggression and strive for strength, it must understand the West and learn from the West's advanced science and technology. In 1839, Lin Zexu set up a translation hall in Guangzhou to translate foreign books and newspapers, "sending people to spy on Western affairs every day, translating Western books, and acquiring newsprint" in order to keep abreast of the "Yi Qing". At that time, Lin Zexu presided over the compilation of "Huashi Yiyan" and "Chronicles of the Four Continents," which introduced the situation in foreign countries and enabled people to gradually understand the situation in the outside world.

It is extremely commendable that he strictly forbids opium and strongly advocates the prohibition of smoking, but he does not oppose the legitimate Chinese and foreign countries**; He demanded to resist foreign aggression, but he was not opposed to learning the advanced ideas and techniques of foreign countries, and in his recital to Emperor Daoguang, Lin Zexu put forward the idea of "mastering the enemy's skills to control the enemy." It is precisely because of this that Lin Zexu is known as the "first person to open his eyes to the world" in modern China. As a student of Lin Zexu, Wei Yuan inherited Lin Zexu's idea of mastering the country and conquering the country, and on the basis of Lin Zexu's "Chronicles of the Four Continents," he completed the "Atlas of the Sea Kingdom," which introduced in great detail the geographical, historical, and social conditions of various countries in the world, and expounded in detail the idea of "mastering the skills of the master to control the country" and learning from the West.

Wei Yuanshu stated that the purpose of writing the "Atlas of the Sea Kingdom" was to "make it for the purpose of attacking the razor with razing, for the purpose of destroying the money, and for the master's skill of using the art of the master to control the razing." Wei Yuan emphatically pointed out: "Shiyi" is to "control the country," and to learn from the West is to resist Western aggression; In order to successfully resist Western aggression and achieve the goal of "subduing the country," "we must first understand the situation of the people," that is, we must understand the situation of the people through the translation of books and books through the Liyi Museum, so as to know ourselves and the enemy.

At the same time, we should also be good at learning from foreign countries, in this regard, Wei Yuan emphasized: "Those who are good at teaching the four Yi can control the Yi class; Those who are not good at teaching from outside will be controlled by outsiders." In summing up the reasons for the defeat of the Opium War, Wei Yuan held that "strong ships and guns" were the main factors for the Western powers to defeat China, and for this reason, "Shiyi" means learning the strong points of Western military technology, that is, learning Western warships, firearms, and methods of raising and training troops.

Of course, Wei Yuan was, after all, a representative of the political reform of the feudal landlord class, and although he put forward the slogan of learning from the West when the Chinese nation was in crisis, he never stepped out of the threshold of feudalism, harbored illusions about the decadent Qing Dynasty, and pinned his hopes on the Qing Dynasty to save the crisis and enrich the country and strengthen the army by learning the advantages of Western military technology under the rule of the Qing Dynasty.

This is a problem in modern Chinese history, and Lin Zexu and Wei Yuan are representatives of the resistance of the landlord class (like Li Hongzhang is the Westernization faction of the landlord class). After the Opium War, Lin Zexu understood the truth that "if you are backward, you will be beaten", organized the translation and dissemination of a number of Western literature, and advocated the study of advanced Western science and military technology to resist humiliation by strengthening the country. Wei Yuan's Atlas of the Sea Kingdom is a book that embodies this idea in a concentrated manner.

They advocated learning from the West, albeit limited to military technology, but this was the first time that a Chinese had proposed it, so they were the spokesmen of new ideas.

Wei Yuan was a university scholar with first-rate Western knowledge at that time, and he compiled the 100 volumes of the "Atlas of the Sea Kingdom", which extensively introduced Western knowledge and put forward the idea of "mastering the art of mastering and mastering the art to control the country", in an attempt to absorb the advanced technology of the West and make China rich and strong.

(1) Positive aspects: During the Opium War, when China had fallen behind the West and faced the historical conditions of aggression by Western powers, the essence and purpose of "learning from the West" was to learn from the advanced and resist aggression, so it was progressive and patriotic, which was the main aspect. (2) Limitations:

However, at that time, Lin and Wei only saw that they should learn from the advanced technology of the West, but they did not see that they should also learn from the advanced systems and culture of the West, and their fundamental purpose was still to maintain the rule of the Qing Dynasty, which was determined by the limitations of their time and class. (3) Effect: At that time, it did not have a practical impact on the ruling group of the Qing Dynasty, but it played an enlightening role in the late Qing Dynasty Chinese intellectual circles and later Westernists to learn from the West.

In our history, we call Lin Zexu and Weiyuan the resistance faction of the feudal landlord class or the Jingshi faction, which provided ideological guidance and theoretical basis for the later Westernization movement.

Wei Yuan (1794-1857) Qing Dynasty enlightenment thinker and politician Lin Zexu: 1785 1850, politician and thinker in the late Qing Dynasty;

Lin Zexu and Wei Yuan were in the same period, belonging to the landlord class: resistance: the proposition is: "open your eyes to the world".

The Westernists, on the other hand, were a rising political faction that gradually formed and grew after the Second Opium War, especially during the suppression of the Taiping Rebellion (1851-1864). During this period, Lin Zexu and Wei Yuan also passed away successively).

The main representatives of the Westernization faction are the Manchus represented by Yixin and Wenxiang, and the Han nationality represented by Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang, Zuo Zongtang and Zhang Zhidong in the localities.