1. After the Opium War, China's modern national consciousness began to sprout.
2. After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the national consciousness was initially awakened;
3. The consciousness of national awakening was sublimated during the May 4th Movement;
4. During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, national consciousness rose in an all-round way.
2. Impact:
1. After the Opium War, China people's national consciousness began to sprout: the thought of learning from foreigners to control foreigners and the early reform thought came into being: Lin Zexu: the first person in modern China who opened his eyes to see the world. Wei Yuan: He edited the annals of nautical charts, and put forward the idea of "learning from foreigners to control foreigners", and advocated learning advanced foreign science and technology to make the country rich and strong and resist foreign aggression. This is the first time that modern China learned from the West. In the Westernization Movement, Ma Jianzhong, Wang Tao, Zheng and other early reform ideas advocated changing the feudal autocratic system.
2. After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the national consciousness of China people began to awaken generally. Yan Fu shouted the slogan of "saving the country" in The Final Theory of Saving the Country, and Kang Youwei also asked the people of China to save themselves. At the beginning of Sun Yat-sen's founding, he shouted the strongest voice of the era of "rejuvenating China".
3. The May 4th Movement was a profound ideological emancipation movement. Make the people of China more aware of the nature of imperialist aggression and the darkness of warlord rule, and at the same time further improve the determination and consciousness of the people of China against imperialism and feudalism; It has promoted the national people's reflection and exploration of China's reform, and also promoted the vigorous rise of new ideological trends and the spread of Marxism.
4. The full-scale outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression made China's national consciousness jump from a hidden state to a fierce state, erupting like lava, and the national spirit "suddenly rose in front of the invaders and became a new and modern Great Wall of China".