Some people say that the Qing Dynasty is worthless, even heinous, is that true? I think it's completely wrong, the contribution of the Qing Dynasty is huge, and it can be compared with the Qin, Han, Tang, etc. Although the Qing Dynasty also had shortcomings and mistakes of one kind and another, which dynasty did not have shortcomings and mistakes?
People who say that the Qing Dynasty was nothing probably like to talk about it in the following ways:
1: The Qing Dynasty hindered the development of capitalism in China. I think this is wishful thinking, since ancient times, the status of merchants in China has been very low, even if the Ming Dynasty has had the germ of capitalism, but it is still extremely slow to develop, there are many reasons, one of the important points is that China's traditional natural economy is too developed, there is no demand for commodity dumping at all, which is essentially different from early European capitalism, if European capitalists do not want to try to dump goods overseas, they will not be able to survive at all, why did Britain smuggle opium to China? It was precisely because British goods did not have any attraction to the Qing Dynasty and could not be sold at all, that the criminal opium smuggling arose that even if there was no Qing Dynasty, or if the Ming Dynasty continued for another 200 years, Chinese capitalism would still not develop as rapidly as Europe and the United States.
2: The Qing Dynasty destroyed Chinese culture, we know that the Qing Dynasty rulers were the minority Manchus, and there were at least dozens of minority regimes that ruled China in whole or in part in Chinese history, but Chinese culture has never been interrupted, the Qing Dynasty ruled China not only did not destroy Chinese culture, but carried forward and strengthened Chinese culture, Qing Dynasty's politics, economy, culture, and other aspects have been inherited in the same vein Chinese traditional culture has not changed, and the Manchus have been completely integrated into Chinese culture in more than 100 years, Therefore, the Qing Dynasty destroyed Chinese culture, which was completely the work of narrow nationalism.
3: The Qing Dynasty ceded land and paid reparations, causing the loss of China's territory, indeed, this is a huge mistake of the Qing Dynasty, however, these people who accuse the Qing Dynasty of land reparations have never said that the territory actually controlled by the Qing Dynasty and implemented effective administrative jurisdiction is the largest area in China for 5,000 years, and in 1912, when the Qing Dynasty fell, it still effectively controlled more than 10 million square kilometers of territory. Therefore, the Qing Dynasty laid the basic outline of modern China's territory, and its contribution was extremely huge, and without the Qing Dynasty, who could guarantee that China now has 9.6 million square kilometers of territory?
To sum up, even if the Qing Dynasty made a huge mistake, it made a greater contribution, and anyone who maliciously smeared the Qing Dynasty was a person with ulterior motives.