The Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War of 1894 began with the Battle of Toyoshima and broke out on July 25th in 1894 (the 20th year of Guangxu). After the battles of Chenghuan, Pyongyang, Huanghai, Yalu River, Lushunkou, ahava and Liaodong, it finally ended on April 1895. In the end, China was defeated in this war, and beiyang fleet, where China participated in the war, was completely annihilated. Due to China's defeat in this battle and the pressure of the Japanese army, an unequal treaty, treaty of shimonoseki, was signed.
Treaty of shimonoseki was signed in Shimonoseki, Japan by Li Hongzhang and Li, plenipotentiaries of China, and Ito Bowen and Lu Aozongguang, plenipotentiaries of Japan. The general contents of treaty of shimonoseki are as follows: Shashi, Chungking, Suzhou and Hangzhou were opened as trading ports, and China ceded Taiwan Province Island and its affiliated islands, Penghu Islands and Liaodong Peninsula to Japan, compensated Japan for 200 million silver, and allowed Japan to build factories at trading ports. This is also the saddest page in China's modern history.
History is for reference today. By understanding and studying history, people can gain more experience to face our life today. Emperor Taizong famously said, "Take copper as a mirror, you can dress properly, history as a mirror, you can know the rise and fall, and people as a mirror, you can know right and wrong"-selected from Zhenguan dignitaries. History is like a mirror, which can reflect the rise and fall of a dynasty or regime, as well as the goodness, evil, loyalty and treachery in today's society.
As we all know, territory is extremely important to a country and a nation. There is a saying in China that "every inch of land is contested", so you can imagine the importance of land. I don't know how many battles have been fought for territory. We can see from history that whenever a country or regime wants to cede its land to another country, most of the ceded countries are in a defeated country or forced by some powerful oppression to give up what they have given up, and then sign those unequal treaties that humiliate the country. However, I have never heard that in peacetime, there is no oppression, and even when the land-expropriated countries are at the trough of national fortune, the leaders of a healthy country hand over the land to countries at the trough of national fortune.