The modern history of China is a discipline different from the modern history of the world, with China as the narrative subject of the development of modern history. Different from the historical staging of modern world history, there are many opinions on the staging of China's modern history, but it is generally believed that it started with the Opium War in 1840 and ended with the founding of New China in 1949. Among them, before the May 4th Movement 1840 to 19 19 was called the period of old democratic revolution, also known as the modern history of China. From the May 4th Movement of 19 19 to the establishment of People's Republic of China (PRC) of 1949, it is called the period of new democratic revolution, also known as the modern history of China.

Modern history has experienced 109 spring, summer, autumn and winter from the beginning to the end, and it has been 168 years since the beginning. Modern history seems to be far away from us, but when we open the ancient books, this long-buried and extremely heavy history will still deeply shock the hearts of every Chinese son and daughter.

"Iron is not for sale, but it needs to be washed and recognized." Perhaps many people will use this poem "Red Cliff" by Du Mu to express their feelings about the rise and fall of the country when talking about the modern history of China. To paraphrase, let's take a look at the earth-shaking times in modern China.

The beginning of modern history, 1840, is the middle and late period of the Qing empire, which closed its doors for a long time and achieved pride. It is the rulers of the empire who call people from other countries "fan" or "yi" and other discriminatory words in the beautiful dream of "China's great country". Not accepting their technology, not allowing their trade, everything, everything is just an illusory bubble in the hearts of dynasty rulers. Don't you know that when we were all sleeping in the ancient land of the East, Britain, opposite to our earth, carried out their industrial revolution and made full preparations for their dark intention of "the sun never sets"; However, the reform of the Tsar in the Song Dynasty behind the Qing Empire and the Daiwa Meiji Restoration across the sea from us have made great achievements. The British-led countries, out of ambition and plunder, extended the evil trade to ancient China. Although the government has repeatedly issued smoking bans, opium trade was rampant in the Qing Dynasty in China, which lacked science and culture, weakening the will and civilization of the people of China. Laziness, indolence, and so on appear in a hard-working Chinese territory. Some foreigners call China the sleeping lion of the East. Those ignorant people in China still think this evaluation is very good, because they think he will wake up one day because he is sleeping. However, they don't know that this concept comes from acrobatic performances in Luo Song. In order to make the ferocious lion not a threat, the animal trainer feeds the meat fed with opium to the lion, so that the usually majestic lion can only be reduced to a prisoner. The intention of British opium trade is frightening. When the smoke of opium destruction in Humen was still hovering in the air, 1884, Britain opened the closed door with artillery fire. Compared with the traditional cold weapons of the Qing Dynasty, foreigners' hot weapons are as simple as stabbing a paper doll. The final result was that the Qing government signed the first "treaty of nanking" which humiliated the country. Since then, as we all know, a feudal country in China has become a semi-feudal and semi-colonial country. Since then, the sky of this great China country has become dark in history, and it began to sway in the wind and rain. In particular, the historical event of Eight-Nation Alliance burning Yuanmingyuan still makes me regret it. After one war after another, the Qing court became weaker and weaker because of the compensation for land. Although some knowledgeable bureaucrats and bourgeoisie carried out the Reform Movement of 1898 and the Westernization Movement, which brought a breeze to the whole decadent land of China, the Qing government had been addicted for a long time. No matter in that respect, this breeze could not save China's illness at all. At this time, a little new light appeared on the land of China. At that time, a great revolutionary forerunner, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, led the revolutionaries to set up the League, launched the Revolution of 1911, overthrew the decadent feudal rule and established the Republic of China. However, due to the weakness and compromise of the revolution, Yuan Shikai usurped the revolutionary achievements. The Revolution of 1911 finally failed to extricate China from its predicament. 192 1 This year is an epoch-making year. The enthusiasm of the May 4th Movement ignited a single spark-the birth of * * * producers in China. The fire that started a prairie fire ignited China's enthusiasm and life. Under the leadership of the producer of China * * *, the people of China, who have been in turmoil for a long time, finally saw the dawn of hope. After arduous anti-Japanese war and various tests, the producer of China finally led China onto the bright road. 1949 10 when People's Republic of China (PRC) was founded, the people of China finally held their heads high after this humiliating modern history.

I don't have much insight into modern history, but I have special feelings for the first half of modern history. Every time I read this history, I will regret it and immerse myself in complicated feelings.