2, the specific reasons for the failure of the Opium War:
(1) The political corruption of the Qing government;
(2) China's feudal economy was backward;
(3) Backward military technology and equipment;
(4) The Qing rulers who mastered the leadership of the war were not sure about the war, and their military command was improper.
3. Impact of the Opium War
(1) The failure of the Opium War and the signing of a series of unequal treaties have fundamentally changed the social nature of China;
(2) Politically, the Manchu government began to become a tool for the foreign powers to rule China step by step. As China's territorial, territorial sea, judicial, customs and trade sovereignty began to be seriously damaged, China gradually became a semi-colonial and semi-feudal country from an independent country.
(3) Economically, with the dumping of products in China and the acquisition of agricultural and sideline products such as silk and tea in China, China has been gradually involved in the world market; The dominant self-sufficient natural economy has been strongly impacted, and China has increasingly become a part of the world capitalist market. This has objectively promoted the development of China's commodity economy and contributed to the rise of China's national capitalism. However, foreign capitalism further intensified class contradictions and led to the outbreak of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement to a certain extent.
(4) Ideologically and culturally, after the Opium War, some intellectuals began to abandon their old ideas, pay attention to the world, explore new knowledge, and seek ways to strengthen the country against aggression, thus sprouting a new trend of thought of learning from the West, which had a certain impact on feudal thoughts.