When I was in middle school, history was a subject that my classmates didn't like. Because the textbooks were boring, the history teacher was someone with low teaching standards in the school. To be fair, our history teachers at that time were older than us in terms of historical knowledge. They would only recite boring texts according to the textbook, accompanied by asking us to draw the key points of the exam and memorize them. I didn't like this kind of history class. I didn't understand history and memorized the key points of the exam, but I soon forgot them again.
Now, I find history very interesting and rich in content. There are stories about politics, economics, science and technology, literature, military affairs, and so on. I downloaded some middle school history videos to learn. She wouldn't know if she didn't look, but she was shocked when she saw it. What were those history teachers talking about? They said that the historical textbooks written with historical materialism were wrong and that they should use the historical view of civilization to compile the textbooks. Under their colored glasses, they said that our civilization was a farming civilization with a small-scale peasant economy, the Western countries were a marine civilization, and we were more ignorant and backward than the Western civilization. In short, the moon in foreign countries was rounder than the Chinese Dynasty, and the Eight-Power Alliance invaded Beijing and burned down the Old Summer Palace. This was the inevitable result of our ignorance and backwardness. They actually used a biased method to slander the national system and the leaders loved by the people. I can't repeat the unscrupulous vicious abuse. I couldn't stand it anymore. I was glad that my history teacher in high school was so poor that I didn't suffer from the poison of distorting right and wrong.
During the period of the Eight-Nation Alliance invading China, they burned, killed, raped, robbed, and committed all kinds of crimes. Where was the slightest bit of civilization? They were clearly barbarians who had just transformed from wild beasts. Only the kind and hardworking people of China were civilized people! Moreover, the Eight-Power Alliance invading Beijing and burning down the Old Summer Palace was a tragedy that could have been avoided. At that time, there were about 16,000 people in the Eight-Nation Alliance who invaded Beijing. They could not even choose a commander-in-chief and each of them did what they wanted. There were many international vagrants among the soldiers. They could be said to be a mob. The muskets they used needed to be reloaded every time they fired, and they were not accurate. If all of us rise up and fight against the common enemy, we can block the enemy's muskets with water-soaked quilts, then we can rush in front of the enemy and destroy the enemy with our swords and spears. In this way, once the Eight-Nation Alliance invades China, it will be destroyed by Wang Yang Dahai of the people's war. The direct cause of the historical tragedy was that the corrupt Empress Dowager Cixi of the Qing Dynasty failed to rely on the creators of human history, the masses, to resist foreign aggression. Otherwise, history would be rewritten.
The foreign powers had plundered China for 60 years, from the Opium War of 1840 to the invasion of Beijing by the Eight-Power Alliance in 1900. The Eight-Power Alliance forced the Qing government to sign the "Xin Chou Convention", forcing the Qing government to pay a total of 450 million taels of silver to each country, which was repaid in 39 years with an annual interest of 4%. The principal and interest amounted to 980 million taels of silver, and China became a semi-colony. At that time, China was still one of the richest countries in the world, with a population of 450 million and a rich and brilliant history. However, it was not right for it to be a semi-colonial country that was at the mercy of the world's major powers.
200 years ago, China had always been a superpower in the world. Its economy accounted for two-thirds of the world's total. Its civilization was the world's number one, and its scientific and technological level was the world's leading. At that time, many parts of the world were still in the slash-and-burn era. Europe was mostly city-states, and the United States was still in a primitive tribal slave society without the concept of a country. China was only backward and beaten for more than 100 years from 1840 to 1949. The people suffered a lot. The direct reason for this was the decline of the Manchu Dynasty and the warlords and Japanese invasion after the fall of the Manchu Dynasty.
In 1949, after the establishment of the new dynasty, the people of the dynasty stood up and walked to today's prosperity, regaining the dignity of history. We should have theoretical confidence, cultural confidence, and system confidence. We should firmly follow the path of Chinese characteristics and work together to build a beautiful home. However, teachers were noble professions, but not all teachers were noble people. Some teachers had publicly spread history lesson videos on the Internet to instill wrong ideas into children and promote historical nihilism. It was unknown what they said to children in their usual classes that the public did not know. Watching the children sitting upright in the video, holding their breath as they listened to the teachers instill the wrong ideas, I was heartbroken. The children's ideas were like a blank piece of paper. The unscrupulous teachers had wantonly polluted this blank piece of paper, not only poisoning the children, but also ruining our beautiful future.
Therefore, I wanted to write " I Look at History " in an objective, concise, and vivid way. I wanted to read history together with my readers, especially hoping that young readers would establish objective and correct ideas in the process of reading history together, so that they could increase their historical knowledge in a relaxed and happy way, and greatly improve their history exam results in a subtle way.
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