“China is a sleeping lion” was said by Napoleon Bonaparte. The complete sentence is: China is a sleeping lion that will shock the world once it awakens.

Napoleon Bonaparte, a great conqueror and a great military strategist, his historical status is comparable to that of Caesar and Alexander the Great. Perhaps no conqueror in history has been as loved by the world as Napoleon - Napoleon's rise was too inspirational, Napoleon's love was too loyal, and Napoleon's ending was too bleak, so people actually forgot that he was an ambitious conqueror. Instead, he responded with countless warm looks.

Napoleon did not have any interaction with China. If he had to say that he did, it would be that he once commented that China is the sleeping lion of the East - "China is a sleeping lion. Once it awakens, it will shock the world." Over the past 200 years, we have firmly remembered this sentence, and from time to time quoted Napoleon's "Theory of the Sleeping Lion in the East" to encourage ourselves. It seems that only by confirming our eyes with Napoleon can we have confidence.

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Source of the story: Amerst believed that the only way to knock on the door of China was through war. Napoleon commented in a contemptuous tone: "We must fight against this vast territory and rich products." Rich Imperial Warfare is the greatest folly in the world. "You may succeed at first, seizing their ships and destroying their military and commercial facilities, but you will also make them aware of their own power.

< p>They will think; they will build ships and equip themselves with artillery. They will bring in gunners from France, the United States and even London, and build a fleet to defeat you. "Amerst retorted: "China is here. Behind the apparent strength is a clay-footed giant, very weak." Napoleon insisted that China was not weak, it was just a sleeping lion. "From today's perspective, even a fly would dare to land on a lion's face and scream a few times when it is asleep... Once China wakes up, the world will be shocked." This sentence quickly spread throughout Europe, and then spread throughout Europe. The world has had a strong sensational effect that continues to this day.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Oriental Lion