Evidence! ! Read more books! In the west, even "personal egoism" is taken from China. It comes from the thought of "I value softness" in Tao Te Ching, which is similar to Yang Zhu's philosophy. There is also "socialism" from the Analects of Confucius.

Accurately speaking, the West developed on the huge China. What muskets and cannons are not from China? Even the capital of robbery was learned by China.

So why did China fall behind? In fact, China is not backward. How can you say that a country that has maintained a surplus with world trade for more than 2000 years is backward?

It's actually quite simple. The Qing Dynasty belonged to a minority regime, but China fell behind in peacetime, burning the scientific classic "Heavenly Creations" and killing scientific and technological personnel through the literary inquisition.