Reading thoughts 190 1

After reading Li Ao's "Beijing Fayuan Temple", I have always been resistant to the history of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. I suddenly want to know that this period is different from the ancient history of China and the transitional period of revolutionary history after the May 4th Movement.

In fact, I believe that many college students, like me, don't like reading books that are scarred by the Chinese nation. They always think that history is too heavy, too bitter and too depressing, which makes us breathless. We like to read about the magnificent imperial ambitions in the Han Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty and the early Qing Dynasty, and the heroic feelings that devoured Wan Li like tigers, as if they were like our ancestors and our Chinese descendants.

It's like facing your own cowardice and shame and escaping from that sad history. Just like a ragged, thin old man with pigtails, his eyes are empty and he is shivering in the cold wind, which makes people unable to bear to take a look. Really, there will be this feeling.

After watching Beijing Fayuan Temple, I was crazy to know the bitter history of standing in the desolation. With such a rare impulse, I searched this kind of books online and finally found Wang Shuzeng's 190 1 year.

As a military writer, Wang Shuzeng must have a different vision from the literati. Soldiers should be calm and objective, and literati will inevitably have emotional tendencies. I tried to understand the old man from different angles.

The style humor of "190 1" is cold everywhere, which is quite different from the profound Zen and secret passion in North. Wang seems to expose the old man to the world, and a cruel sobriety makes me feel a little confused.

This book completely subverts the concept I acquired in the textbook before, making all the plane characters three-dimensional and concretizing many historical events (maybe a little exaggerated).

Empress Dowager Cixi has the same ignorance and stubbornness as that of that era, as well as the superb skills of politicians. She is fierce and vicious, but she still has the grievances and gentleness of ordinary women.

Guangxu has great ambition to revitalize the empire, but he has no courage. He also struggled, but this struggle could not save the woman he loved.

Kang Youwei, the prophet of China, clung to the dying dynasty and fantasized about the absurd plan of immigrating our nation to Brazil.

Li Hongzhang, the pillar of the empire, struggled for the poor dignity of the empire in the strong military threat of the great powers. When the Boxer Rebellion and Eight-Nation Alliance disturbed the northern part of China, he "rebelled" with southern government officials to protect the southern economy and maintain peace in the south.

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All kinds of characters show selfishness, cowardice, ignorance, fearlessness, speculation and so on in the crisis of the empire. The complexity of human nature makes it difficult to simply judge good and evil.

Is the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom a commendable peasant uprising? The boxer movement seems to have done more harm to our nation than to foreigners, including Nie Shicheng's death. Many ambitious people in the empire dreamed of breaking the North because of this incredibly stupid peasant movement. For what heinous purpose, the imperial supreme clansmen wiped out the innocent peasants and countless regular troops of the Boxer Rebellion. Why is the G8 so loose that it can easily break through the capital of an empire with less than 654.38+0 million? The six gentlemen we admired in the Reform Movement of 1898 were not the people we wanted to die calmly. When the allied forces attacked Beijing, the Eight Banners nobles committed suicide. ...

Everything has turned into a heavy sigh and gone with the wind. The pain of "the new ghost is now wailing there with the old ghost" gradually disappears, but the harder the years are, the more you can see the vitality of a nation, and all its defects and glory will be clearly reflected in different people.

We are always criticizing the incompetence of Manchu rule, but it is not difficult to find that such a shaky regime can finally survive for so long. We are born to miss the past, and we don't want to give it up. Kang Youwei wouldn't build a new ship even if he wanted to mend a few more patches on this broken ship. They said, after all, the regime of more than 200 years is deeply rooted, and the people of China have not yet opened their minds. They want Guangxu to be their emperor. Implement "enlightened * * * *", but the beautiful daydream failed. Tan sitong sang "I laugh at the sky with a horizontal knife, and I stay in Kunlun Mountain". He told people that the road to reform was blocked by his own body. Liang Qichao understood change, but Kang Youwei did not, and became a "royalist".

History cannot be assumed, but if there is, what will happen to China if Guangxu is in power, Kang Youwei returns to China and the political reform succeeds? Unfortunately, the conservative inertia of the Chinese nation is always so strong. A great country is not smarter than Japan. The more civilized it is, the more conservative it will be.

I can't break the logic, I can only think of it here. At that time, the literati's thoughts must be very chaotic. How painful it is to abandon thousands of years of cultural beliefs. Western religions and cultures run amok with the support of the most powerful force.

Chaos. I make trouble for them.

First the Boxer Rebellion, and then the May 4th Movement denied all traditions. China has been trying to save the country, and finally * * * * finally completed the revolution with traditional peasant power and advanced western ideas. There are several generations of experience and lessons here. This is another story.

Reading 190 1 year, although I felt the darkness of the society at that time, but bathed in the sunshine of the new era, it must be extreme and incomprehensible. Please forgive me.