Many people think that it is just an ordinary scar, but it is actually a scar carved on the Chinese nation, because it is a thumbnail of the humiliation suffered by the Chinese nation since its modern history. Just as the Sphinx in Egypt was hit by the colonists as a target, the nose of the Sphinx was knocked off, so the reasons for the scars on the stone lion beside the Jinshui Bridge in front of the Forbidden City are similar.

I think that at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the great powers invaded one after another, adding to the burden on the people who already had a heavy burden. The rulers were incompetent, the bureaucrats were decadent, the armaments were lax, and they were defeated repeatedly, defeated repeatedly, and defeated repeatedly. After successive defeats and humiliation treaties, China has gradually changed from a feudal dynasty to a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, and the people are in dire straits.

After the 1 Opium War, the second Opium War, the signing of the treaty of nanking, Beijing and Tianjin treaties, the Qing government still went its own way. I didn't realize that there was something wrong with my own institutional thinking, but I just blamed the weapons for not being able to do it. The vigorous Westernization Movement is striving for self-improvement and wealth, and a large number of military and civilian enterprises have been built. Founded the world-famous Beiyang Navy, even foreigners have to give a thumbs up and say that this is really the strongest navy in East Asia.

However, as we all know, a Sino-Japanese naval battle in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 tore up the last fig leaf of the Qing government. Even the Japanese government is no match. After Japan's victory, Li Hongzhang went to Japan to negotiate. In the process of negotiation, the lion opened his mouth, and at the same time, Japan intercepted the message information between Li Hongzhang and the Qing Dynasty, and found that the Qing Dynasty didn't care how much it would cost. The Qing Dynasty was worried that Japan would attack the Forbidden City and threaten their rulers. The Japanese government, which had a good idea in its heart, demanded compensation unscrupulously, and finally signed it successfully, which was the famous treaty of shimonoseki.

After the signing of treaty of shimonoseki, the Qing government needed to pay more than 200 million taels of silver, and at the same time allowed the Japanese to open factories in the mainland. The national interests given by this treaty are very, very horrible, far better than those humiliating treaties signed with other powers before. In this way, other powers are dissatisfied, and the Qing government has such a good weapon that it can still be defeated, and the powers despise the Qing government even more.

Shandong began to make trouble with the Boxer Rebellion. Cixi actually thought that the Boxer Rebellion could be invulnerable, declared war on the powers in the name of the head of state, and then ordered the Boxer Rebellion, who claimed to be invulnerable, to besiege embassies of various countries. As a result, it is conceivable that the powers were struggling to find an excuse to declare war on China, thus seeking benefits. This happened to be a sleepy pillow, so Eight-Nation Alliance began to gather. ...

Ironically, Eight-Nation Alliance's main force was the Japanese soldiers who had just gained a lot of benefits. Tens of thousands of invaders landed from Dagukou and killed all the way to the Forbidden City. The new army formed by the Qing government was vulnerable, but the Boxer Rebellion was tenacious. But they were no match for Eight-Nation Alliance. The Queen Mother fled with Guangxu early, and Eight-Nation Alliance arrived in Beijing. Some ignorant traitors even took the initiative to help Eight-Nation Alliance enter the city, so Beijing fell, and there was almost no resistance during the whole process.

After entering Beijing, Eight-Nation Alliance was bestial, plundered gold and silver goods unscrupulously, looted and slaughtered the rich people in Beijing, and ordinary people often spared him. They drove a large number of people into hutongs and then set up machine guns to slaughter them. The Forbidden City didn't escape their clutches, so Eight-Nation Alliance set the headquarters in the inner court of the Forbidden City Palace.

They are entrenched in the Forbidden City, burning, killing and looting. They also took a lot of photos in the Hall of Supreme Harmony in the Forbidden City. Their invaders sat on the emperor's dragon chair. The scar of the stone lion mentioned in our topic was hit by Eight-Nation Alliance as a target. After Eight-Nation Alliance's withdrawal, the government signed a new humiliating and unequal treaty with the foreign powers, that is, the famous treaty of shame and ugliness. Since then, China has completely become a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, and the Qing government has completely become the court of foreigners.