In China, any unified dynasty has its prosperity and its last days, and the Tang, Song, Ming and Qing dynasties are no exception.

The sadness of the Republic of China lies in the fact that it has never had any prosperous times, and is always struggling in the quagmire from one end to the other.

There is a very absurd trend of thought in the current cultural circles, that is, the crazy worship of the Republic of China. Many "brick people call beasts" think that today's China is very bad, but the old society before liberation has inexplicably become a paradise -- these people who claim to like the Republic of China do not look at the actual living conditions of the people during the Republic of China, nor at the economic statistics of the national period, and only pay attention to the poetic and elegant life of a few elites.

So they always say, there are so many cultural masters in the Republic of China, how high the treatment of intellectuals in the Republic of China is, how free speech is in the Republic of China, how humane the Republic of China is to the landlords, in short, everything in the Republic of China is good! Everything in New China is bad!

-- When the ass decides the head, common sense is thrown down the toilet.

In fact, if you want to experience the turbulent tide of the times and feel the noble sentiments of the martyrs, then although the history of the Republic of China is dark and humiliating, it is indeed the most drastic and exciting era of social change, with countless wonderful legends that make the blood of our future generations boil, singing and crying - just as many people in Europe love medieval castles and chivalric legends.

But the problem is that Western lovers of the Middle Ages have never blown the Middle Ages into paradise, while fans of the Republic of China have done so.

Regarding the specific style of the Republic of China, I have already said some above, basically, the so-called "Republic of China style" can be called the four major characteristics of the Republic of China together with the big smoke, syphilis, and the rout, and I will talk about the overall situation below.

1. The economy of the Republic of China is good, but there is no industry -- before the liberation of China, at most it could only produce a little soap matches and other gadgets, and a person who processed flour in a machine mill was considered a big entrepreneur at that time, which is simply a joke today! And the manufacturers that can produce some hot water bottles and rubber shoes are already high-tech enterprises, and the bosses can be on an equal footing with government officials.

Think about the title of "shijie factory" in China now, and then think about a large series of words with the word "foreign" in the Republic of China: foreign guns, foreign cannons, foreign rice, foreign noodles, foreign oil, foreign fire, foreign smoke, foreign nails, foreign cloth, foreign cars (bicycles), foreign ash (cement), foreign alkali (soap), foreign slaves...... Alas, up to now, most of the names with the word "foreign" in front have long been ancient, but the "foreign slave" of zuihou has always been succeeded by people and has never become extinct.

2. The politics of the Republic of China is good, but there is no sovereignty -- there are many concessions in various places, foreigners enjoy extraterritoriality, Chinese and dogs are not allowed to enter, and British and Japanese gunboats are rampant on the Yangtze River...... Of course, if someone still insists that China should be destroyed and colonized for 300 years, even if I don't say it.

3. Life in the Republic of China is good, but there is no way to survive -- Many public intellectuals always like to use the natural disasters of three years to "starve 30 million people to death" to discredit the Communist Party, but they do not know that such famines in the Republic of China era were even more commonplace. U.S. Ambassador to China Stuart Layden once counted that before 1949, an average of 3 million to 7 million people died of hunger in China every year. During the entire Republic of China era, more than 200 million people starved to death. In the years of famine, hundreds of "road-falling" corpses had to be transported by truck on the streets of Shanghai every day, and sometimes there were too many corpses stacked on the truck, and the corpses were thrown down when they turned a corner, and the driver did not notice it. So, as soon as the owner of the roadside shop opened the door in the morning, he saw that there were more zombies at the door......

At that time, the average life expectancy of Chinese was only 35 years, which is 5 years higher than the average life expectancy of Africans today. By 1979, the average life expectancy of Chinese was 68 years, 14 years higher than that of Indians of the same era. I would like to ask those public intellectuals who blew the Republic of China era into the sky and trampled contemporary China to the ground, could it be that your hometown in your impression often fled from the famine? Do you often have to sell your children and daughters? Folks never brush their teeth in their lives? No electricity, no running water, not even a hot water bottle? One person can't get a quilt? …,

In fact, even those pampered masters and petty bourgeoisie, by the end of the Republic of China, many people no longer had a good life. For example, in 1949, there was a Peking University professor who starved to death in the dormitory, and when he was found, his two eyeballs had been gnawed by rats - there was no way, the salary paid with gold yuan coupons in those years could only be used to light cigarettes, and the relief flour in the United States would only be issued to top masters like Hu Shi after experiencing layers of deductions, and other experts and professors of a slightly lower level still couldn't eat even if they cried and shouted.

Fourth, the army of the Republic of China is good at everything, but it has not won a battle -- up to the time of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the Chinese could not even defend their homeland, let alone really defeat any powerful country.

Even in the later stage of the Anti-Japanese War, the series of most brilliant battles of the expeditionary force to recover Burma was fought by the Japanese army with an absolute superiority of 15:1, as well as the air superiority of the American army, but it was still in danger and extremely difficult, and it was impossible to talk about a strong army.

As for the previous retreat of the expeditionary force from Burma, it set a battlefield record - in the summer of 1942, after the complete occupation of Burma, the Japanese rapid force of about 3,000 people crossed the Chinese border and continued to advance into Yunnan with 10 tanks as the lead. On May 2, the two divisions of the 66th Army stationed in Wan Town launched an attack, and on the 3rd, they continued to drive straight along the Yunnan-Burma Highway, and then occupied Shafang and Mangshi, entered Longling City on the afternoon of the 4th, and arrived at the Huitong Bridge on the bank of the Jinsha River on the 5th, and advanced 300 kilometers in four days, but Leng did not catch up with the national army...... What a great army that has turned into the wind!

Alas, the only thing that can be compared with the national army is the Chinese men's football team decades later. Perhaps, it was precisely because of his extreme contempt for the various armies of modern China in history that MacArthur took the unfamiliar volunteer army lightly on the Korean battlefield, which led to a series of total collapses!

Fifth, the contemporary brick family is good at everything, but there is no discipline -- there are many big landlords on the Internet and in society who do not know whether it is true or not, always proudly proclaiming how rich their family was before liberation, and then gritting their teeth and cursing the evil government that took away their ancestral property...... But to be honest, even if it's still the same old society, can you really keep that share of the family property?

In terms of my own family history, my great-grandfather was originally a large landowner, and he also served as a district chief and a county education director. But in 1947, when he was killed by a stray bullet while sitting in his yard -- it seems that some soldier was indiscriminately putting a gun while marching, and Zuihou did not find out what was going on -- and then the family's land and house were immediately seized by a few bad relatives, and my grandfather and his brothers, who were not yet adults, suddenly became destitute and lived a miserable life.

But after the liberation, the bad relatives who had embezzled the land were all classified as landlords and rich peasants, and they had enough of suffering, while my grandfather and his brothers were all poor and middle peasants...... It's a blessing in disguise.

-- A certain "elite" once said that the countryside of the Republic of China is certainly not heaven, but it is not hell either. If there is a contradiction and it is necessary to carry out a bloody revolution to resolve it, how much hatred will there be? So the reason for the Chinese revolution was not because of poverty, but because the Soviet Union was inciting and plotting the leftists......

I really want to say to him, don't mention any nonsense from the villagers, when those really blood-related relatives bought off the government to seize my family's land, who ever thought of leaving a way for my grandfather to live?

In fact, I have come into contact with several old landlords and old capitalists who were born in the Republic of China era, and they generally believe that even the rich people of the Republic of China era would prefer to live in this peaceful and prosperous new society than in the Republic of China era when warlords were fighting endlessly and the people's lives were miserable. In that evil old society, not only the poor were miserable, but most of the rich also seemed to be suffering in purgatory. …,

At that time, as long as you had a little money, black and white, three-religion, nine-rate bandits and gangsters would quickly come to your door and use all kinds of mental and physical torture to force you to submit and obediently give the money. And all kinds of exorbitant taxes are also exhausting - warlords and rogues of all stripes also need to survive and grow, so naturally they must collect funds. So where does the money come from? Even if the poor are squeezed dry, they can't squeeze a few drops of oil, and of course only the rich can be squeezed. So stop taking it for granted that the rich in the old society were so chic, and the real rich lived a precarious life in the old society!

In those years, except for a very small number of great intellectuals who had returned from abroad, the vast majority of the rest of the people, including the rich, did not care about anything like democracy and freedom, but only cared about the issue of human survival -- at that time, bandits and bullies were rampant everywhere, and a dead person was like a dead ant, and the people's most basic living needs and security guarantees could not be satisfied, so what was the use of getting votes?

Could it be that when the bullets of bandits and ruffians are flying towards you, as long as you stick your ballot on your forehead and shout three times, "The democratic error correction mechanism will be revealed", you will be invulnerable?

In the eyes of those old people who came from the Republic of China, the current Chinese people have enough food and clothing, and when they are full, they can still brag nonsense, which is already a great happiness, and it is really a great rebellion to ask for any rights. At that time, it was very difficult for the landlord to eat a full meal every day.

Freedom and human rights are good things, but only if national sovereignty is upheld. Without sovereignty, under the boots and bayonets of the enemy, in the face of terrible hunger and pestilence, people cannot even save their lives, what freedom and human rights can they talk about?

For example, in 1946, a small landowner in Hunan wrote to his son in northern Shaanxi: "...... Now the tax is a hundred times higher than 10 years ago, no one farms the land, the four people in the family have a solar eclipse of only 2 buckets, and they still can't be self-sufficient, they want to teach the old school, no one invites them, teach the new school, sixty-nine, they can't learn, they beg for rice, it's too ugly, they are looking for a short view, but there are still a few people, only hope that you will come to liberate soon, otherwise all the people who have no production will have to hit the herringbone pile (suicide) ......"

Although the rich people of this era have lost the right to do whatever they want to the people (at least the cost has been greatly increased), they do not need to pay large sums of money every year to deal with the looting and looting of warlords and soldiers from all walks of life (definitely more ruthless than any corrupt officials), they do not need to raise many bodyguards to protect their mansions, and they do not need to bargain with those murderous bandits for protection money, and they do not need to be vigilant at all times when they go out for fear of being kidnapped...... This is a good environment that only exists in New China.

Even the "Republic of China style" who play in the living room salon in the city and write some petty bourgeois texts, in this turbulent era of war, unless they go overseas, it is difficult to find their own comfort nest -- I don't know when they are sick and have no vaccine, when their family property is blackmailed by the National Government, when they go out to visit relatives and are tortured and blackmailed by bandits, when they are greeted by bombs dropped by the planes of the Japanese Imperial Army; When he hid in the concession and watched his compatriots outside being tortured and killed; When the Japanese army swept the artillery fire and bullet rain to run for their lives; When he was charged with "ideological deterioration" and was "served" by the spies every day to sit on the tiger chair and pour chili water; When watching acquaintances, relatives, teachers, classmates and friends "disappear" for various reasons...... How do you feel in your heart?

Seriously, there is nothing wrong with us talking about analyzing the shortcomings of today's society in our spare time. However, when many people are tired or disappointed in reality, they do not put their hopes and ideals in the future, but deeply miss the beautiful past they imagined...... This is a bit too much -- even if you are a little tired of the old routine of our country's propaganda department, you can't really miss the hardships of those years!

In short, the era of the Republic of China is very dark, don't budge it.

zuihou, with a comment on a certain great man. In a sense, this is also a definitive conclusion of the Republic of China era.

-- When he was born, the country was regarded as a beautiful and weak woman, who could go to bed with anyone who liked, and when he left, no country would dare to speak lightly about war against China.