Wei Yuan, a great thinker and scholar in modern times, wrote "The Records of the Sea Chart", holding that the purpose of academic research should be "applying what he has learned", proposing the reform of "changing the past for the best and making people more convenient", advocating learning from advanced western science and technology, and proposing the idea of "learning from foreigners to control foreigners", which opened a new trend of understanding the world and learning from the west, so Wei Yuan was the first person in the world.

Character life:

184 1 In July, I met Lin Zexu in Zhenjiang to talk about current events and future countermeasures. 1843, 65438+ 10, based on the newspaper translated by Lin Zexu in Guangzhou, and based on Lin's History of the Four Kingdoms, he wrote a 50-volume Atlas of the Sea. Wei Yuan stayed in Nanjing for many years when he wrote this book, and his mansion was a small volume. After that, Wei Yuan donated cabinet books until the 25th year of Daoguang (1845). When he was a scholar, palace examination ranked the top three and the 93rd, and made Jiangsu the prefect and praised Xinghua.