What was the Ming society like for more than 300 years? What happened?

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I focus on the analysis of the Ming Dynasty, which is the closest and most promising era for China to modern civilization. When China perished in the Qing Dynasty, everything became simple.

The Ming Dynasty was founded when the Han nationality was deported and enslaved by Mongols for more than half a century. The new Ming government led the revival of Han civilization which lasted for more than 200 years, and formulated new etiquette, clothing, morality and folk customs according to the ancient system. After China got rid of the shadow of national subjugation and slavery, he was martial and solemn, and the social atmosphere cheered for it. The development of commodity economy has also promoted the opening of this spirit and the revival of culture and art. Politics gradually transited from the divine right of monarchy to the rule of literati, and from the rule of imperial power to the dominance of political thought. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, democracy and ideas had emerged, and by the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the social atmosphere had changed even more. Pursuing individual freedom and independence and advocating women's rights are in sharp contrast with the government's pursuit of a harmonious society and pious worship of heaven. The highly developed economy in the middle and late Ming Dynasty made capital completely penetrate into the bone marrow of society for the first time, and advocated revival in the mainstream society. Dressed in the cloak of classical civilization, it set off a revolution that completely subverted classical China from every corner, casting a new world view, values and outlook on life step by step, eroding bureaucrats, scholars, gentry and more people who are unwilling to be confined to the land, and at the same time giving birth to the extreme phenomenon of materialistic cross-flow and personal enjoyment. This phenomenon broke out on a large scale in the late Ming Dynasty, which eventually became a fatal factor of national subjugation: for the sake of self-interest, regardless of the rise and fall of the nation and the life and death of the people, they abandoned their ancestors and children as slaves. A typical example of social violence division is that the Ming government praised chaste women to counter the reality of social obscenity, sexual openness and the upsurge of feminist movement. In any period, the government vigorously promotes enlightenment, which proves that the social "moral corruption" in this period is extremely serious. Unfortunately, China was unlucky., At the most chaotic moment of social consciousness, it failed to achieve a stable transition period and successfully evolved into democracy. This is the weakest time for a country and a nation. In this critical period of transformation, the Manchu Tatars defeated this civil strife nation and colonized it for nearly three centuries. Until the early 20th century, the Han nationality expelled the Tatars and restored China to establish the Republic of China. But at that time, it was already a mighty world trend, and China had been abandoned in a wild foreign land, and then Europe. By the way, China today is an abbreviated version of the Ming Dynasty.

During the colonial period of Manchu and Qing dynasties, there were only two crises in society. One is the continuous resistance of Han nationality and other nationalities to Manchu aristocratic rule, and the other is the imbalance between supply and demand caused by the explosive growth of population and cultivated land reserves and low productivity. The former is a constant uprising once forced too hard, and the latter is a constant uprising once natural disasters and man-made disasters occur. However, the former has a clear political pursuit and does not aim at destruction, while the latter is mostly riots by refugees and hungry people, with considerable destructive power. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, due to the strong intervention of industrial civilization, it began to leap forward and stumble forward, realizing the national revolution and accompanying the social revolution that the Ming Dynasty failed to complete. However, it was also destroyed in the ugly year. Cultural revival, rural revival, moral revival, institutional revolution and technological revolution left only the technological revolution, and everything else was abandoned. People have become slaves of technology and walking dead.