There will be no China after Yashan. This is a highly controversial proposition. For more than 300 years, the Song Dynasty always emphasized culture and suppressed military power. It was repeatedly humiliated by foreign enemies in the military field and was often called the "weak Song Dynasty". But looking at it comprehensively, the Song Dynasty reached the pinnacle of China's feudal society in many aspects such as economy, culture, science and technology, agriculture, industry and commerce, and handicrafts. Its achievements surpassed those of the Sui and Tang Dynasties and the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It was the only dynasty in Chinese history that did not suppress industry and commerce, and tried its best to develop foreign trade. Although they continued to pay tribute, the national treasury was still rich in revenue. By the end of the Song Dynasty, only a few small-scale peasant uprisings broke out. There should be reasons for this. During the Song Dynasty, the Han civilization led the world, was rich in humanistic spirit, developed science and technology, and also had a spirit of resistance. After the Mongols swept across the Eurasian continent, it supported itself independently for decades.
Chinese civilization is independent and can be said to be the largest original civilization besides Western Christian civilization. Under the invasion and attack of nomadic people, after the Battle of Yashan in the late Southern Song Dynasty, the wholeness was destroyed by the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty. The accumulation of the development of our civilization was destroyed. It can be said that after Yashan, there is no China.
How united and strong is the legacy of ancient China?
Even in the relatively weak Southern Song Dynasty, one hundred thousand soldiers and civilians voluntarily jumped into the sea and died for the country. When will such integrity be achieved again?
The sloping line on the cliffs and mountains in the Cape no longer belongs to China.
There is no place to die in the belly of a fish, but there is a river full of ambergris
Looking across the Guanhe River is not a Han flag, blowing the sun and moon is a Hujia
The boss of Chang'e has nowhere to go, and I am alone in the silver wheel crying sweet-scented osmanthus.
