A country's progress has a price and a cost. In order not to change, the best thing to do is not to socialize and close the society.

Before the fall of the Qing Dynasty, we had been doing this all the time, and foreign missions were basically regarded as coming for allegiance.

Interaction is to value each other, but the core value of communication is to establish a self-renewal system to continuously strengthen itself.

The Qing Dynasty ended with a closure, but the next one began

"Communication" really makes the Chinese face gloomy. The 20th century was the only 100 years in the long history of Greater China that lost its self-confidence, and foreign cars, foreign fires, foreign waxes, foreign oils, Oriental and Western things, almost infiltrated all corners.

Even today, from the foreign names of the developer's new real estate to the foreign theory in the university classroom, the wind is blowing.

The danger of intercourse between nations is that the genetic information of their own people is lost, like genetically mutated plants, which are mutated for the sake of improvement.

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"Foreign for Chinese use" has brought about great changes, including economic prosperity and gradual political clarification, and it is precisely because of this great change that it is more urgent to strengthen traditional Chinese elements.

It is a major event that a country's universities, especially in the humanities, do not have the upper hand in their own elements, which is unfortunate for future generations.

On September 26, 1792, a 700-strong British mission on three large ships departed from the port of Portsmouth to China, and the head of the mission was Lord Macartney.

On September 14, 1793, in the summer resort of Chengde, Emperor Qianlong was there

"Paper lanterns shine on the curtain of the Son of Heaven", and the representatives of the mission were received. One of the 12-year-old boys named Thomas Staunton was the one who grew up to lead directly to the war between the two countries.

He was gifted and intelligent, and learned Chinese from the priest who served as an interpreter on the ship, and Qianlong was because of him

"Fluent Chinese" Long Yan Dayue,

"Untie the yellow silk purse that hangs around your waist and make an exception and give it to the child." Along with the huge delegation came to China the newly invented steam engine, the cotton spinning machine, the loom and the hot air balloon.

Lord Qianlong's answer was that the Celestial Empire lacked nothing. His gift to the King of England was a jade carved scepter, and Macartney's jade scepter.

Twenty-four years later, on August 28, 1816, a second British mission arrived in Peking, headed by Lord Amsterdam and represented by the 36-year-old Thomas Staunton, who had lived in Canton for many years and was the commercial representative of the British East India Company in Canton.

But the Jiaqing Emperor did not receive them and ordered the expulsion of the mission. The official record is,

"China is the co-lord of the world, how can it be so arrogant and arrogant, and be willing to endure it. It is to expel his mission to return to his country by decree, and not to punish serious crimes."

According to popular opinion, there are two reasons, one is that the envoy does not accept the etiquette of three bows and nine bows, and the other is that Staunton's identity is a merchant, and the emperor cannot deign to see a merchant.

Another 24 years passed. On April 7, 1840, Thomas Staunton, who was nearly 60 years old, was in the House of Commons of England

"Generous statement": "Are we violating international law by engaging in the opium trade? …… The imperial court in Beijing had the power to strengthen judicial measures to stop the opium trade. But by far the heaviest penalty for foreigners is a ban on doing business or deportation. Can it brutally sentence them to death now?...... If we are not respected in China, we will soon be disrespected in India, and gradually all over the world! And it is also necessary. "That's how the British understood just war 170 years ago.

In June 1840, a fleet of 40 warships and 4,000 soldiers arrived in the waters of Guangzhou through Bengal.

The faceless modern historical life of the Chinese was forcibly kicked off.