History is a heavy book, and you can't completely understand it by turning a few pages. It's no exaggeration to describe China's history with profoundness. However, if you can understand the following ten sentences, you will have a slightly profound and thorough understanding of the history of China.

The first sentence:

Things in the world are divided and alternated, and if they are divided for a long time, they will be combined, and if they are combined for a long time, they will be divided.

Xia unified, Shang and Zhou followed, and the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were chaotic; Qin was unified, followed by the Han Dynasty, and the Three Kingdoms, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties were chaotic; Sui unified, Datang followed, and the Five Dynasties, Ten Kingdoms, Song, Liao and Jin rebelled; Yuan unified, Ming and Qing dynasties followed, and the Republic of China was chaotic.

The second sentence:

The beauty is a disaster, and the country is beautiful

She died in the summer because of her sister's happiness; Shang died in da ji; The Western Zhou Dynasty died of praise; Wu died in Xi Shi; The Qin Dynasty won by Lu Yi, the contribution of Zhao Ji; After Jin Niu followed the horse, the power of Guang Ji; Tang declined in Yang Yuhuan; Ming died in Chen Yuanyuan; Qing was defeated by Empress Dowager Cixi.

The third sentence:

There are countless choices in history, and it is in someone's hands

Li Si, the prime minister of Qin Dynasty, helped others to abuse and burned books to bury Confucianism; Wang Mang, the king of the Han Dynasty, was a mess when scholars ruled the country. An Lushan in the Tang Dynasty, the rebellion of Anshi, turned from prosperity to decline; Wang Anshi of the Song Dynasty, political reform and reform, from governance to chaos; Wu Sangui in the Ming Dynasty, who is selfish, leads the wolf into the room; Yuan Shikai, the Qing dynasty, betrayed his friends for glory and was capricious.

The fourth sentence:

I am worried about my family, and I am in charge of politics, consorts, eunuchs and harems; If you are worried about official corruption, the government will inevitably rebel against the people; Worried about ethnic conflicts outside, foreigners are eyeing up

The demise of all dynasties, all from this.

The fifth sentence:

The winner is a prince and the loser is a thief. History is a false statement that praises the winner and the loser throws a person when he is down.

The winner is Liu Bang and the loser is Xiang Yu; Victory is Li Shimin and defeat is Dou Jiande; Victory is Zhu Yuanzhang, and defeat is Chen Youliang; Victory is the king of a country, and defeat is a rogue.

The sixth sentence:

Overcorrection is always over-correction, in fact, it is not as good as Qin Shangfa, and Han is Confucian; Tang dynasty emphasized martial arts over literature, while Song dynasty emphasized literature over martial arts. Poetry was still popular in Tang and Song Dynasties, and stereotyped writing was still popular in Ming and Qing Dynasties.

The seventh sentence:

The more fragmented, the political chaos, the more brilliant the thought; The more unified, the more stable the politics, the more stagnant the thought.

The former is like the contention of a hundred schools of thought in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the integration of the three religions in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties; The latter, such as the burning of books in Qin Dynasty, the exclusive respect of Confucianism in Han Dynasty, the stereotyped writing in Ming Dynasty and the literary inquisition in Qing Dynasty.

Eighth sentence:

The regional environment determines fate

Since ancient times, China has been bordered by the Pacific Ocean in the east, Siberia in the north, the Taklimakan Desert in the northwest and the Himalayas in the southwest. Living in such a closed environment, it has developed the farming character of Chinese people who are reserved, conservative, moderate and passive.

The ancient governments all emphasized agriculture and commerce, emphasized ethics and literary talent, and ignored technology and practicality. 5,-year-old civilization, with a history of 4, years, has been staged in the Central Plains, where farming is the most developed. Thus, China has always been a yellow civilization dominated by farming.

It was not until the ethnic minorities entered the Central Plains and made Beijing their capital that the Ming and Qing governments were located here, and China's agricultural status was gradually shaken.

when the regime confronts the east and the west, the west is strong and the east is weak; When the north and the south confront each other, the north is strong and the south is weak.

It is precisely because the west and the north are closer to nomadic people, and the blending of the two cultures is naturally more powerful than the simple farming culture in the southeast. Then, every time ethnic minorities invade by force, they will be quickly assimilated by Chinese culture.

Ninth sentence:

At the beginning of the dynasty, the monarch was strong and the minister was strong; In the dynasties, the monarch was strong and the minister was weak; At the end of the dynasty, the monarch was weak and the minister was strong

Like at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the monarch had Taizong, and the minister had room and Du; In the Tang Dynasty, you had Xuanzong, and the ministers were Li Linfu and Yang Guozhong. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the king was a poor man, but the minister was a tiger and a wolf, such as Zhu Wen.

all dynasties have been like this, and there is no other!

The tenth sentence:

It's rigid and easy to break when martial arts are used alone; Rule by culture alone, weakness can be bullied; Only by combining civil and military skills and combining rigidity and softness can we achieve long-term stability.

Like Qin and Yuan, they were invincible, but they vanished in an instant, and the two Song Wenhua flourished, but they were repeatedly bullied by others.

only the Han and Tang dynasties, which valued Wen Tao and Wu lue, lasted for 3 to 4 years, and were called prosperous times, with far-reaching influence.