The decline of the palace
Opium War in 1840, marking the beginning of semi-feudal society in China, the Chinese people's democratic struggle for independence beginning of modern Chinese history that opened the old democratic revolution.
From the Opium War, foreign powers constantly invaded China, so China has gradually semi-colonial, which also made working people poorer and undermining China's self-sufficient economy. This inevitably to the emergence of Chinese capitalism and the development of objective conditions, but also promoted the awakening of the Chinese people.
Taiping revolutionary movement failed, but the Northern Expedition is profound. It is also a strong impact on the Qing rulers, but also shocked the Qing royal family, nobility mind.
1860 end of the Second Opium War, Beijing has stood wantonly looting, Britain, France, Russia and other countries also forced the Qing government to sign the unequal "Beijing Treaty." Their claims, annexations, open ports, built MFN concessions, and so one-sided, making the country the powers followed. To 1900, the eight-occupied Beijing. After the burning and looting, and forced the Qing government to sign the unequal "Boxer conditions." Dong Jiao Min Xiang a foreign embassy district. Many of the palace was occupied by foreign invaders, and burned. External causes as the decline of the palace.
In 1861, Empress Dowager Cixi, and Prince Kung and the Beijing coup conspiracy to obtain the cooperation and support of the West, the semi-colonial regime in the direction of development, Yixin has become a representative figure of Westernization, support for foreign forces, the comprador of bureaucracy. Capital appeared corruption, endemic luxury end of the world scene.
At this time, against the surrender for reform of the reform movement launched in Beijing. Although only the Hundred Days Reform, he was so old school killed the Empress Dowager Cixi. But objectively speaking, the reform movement for the future spread of bourgeois ideology played a role open.
Beijing launched in 1900 the Boxer Rebellion, a strong blow to the imperialist aggression against China and the dream of carving up China. Victory of the Chinese people against imperialism and feudalism revolution to become one of the cornerstones. Since then, the people's rising anti-imperialist patriotic movement.
With the development of national capitalism, the bourgeois constitutionalists carried out petition 5. Bourgeois revolutionary organizations in Beijing, the founder of the newspaper, and carry out assassinations.
Revolution of the outbreak, the Qing government footing chaos. Peng Jiazhen revolutionaries to assassinate ditch the Socialist Party leaders and Liangbi were so cut off imperial dignitaries last ray of hope. Have announced the abdication.
Revolution overthrew the feudal Qing rule, the economic basis on which the palace disappeared. Palace has no privileges. Therefore, it is the root cause of the decline of the palace.
Internal factors decline palace lies in the Qing rulers were given all the privileges of nobility, so that they develop the clothes to hand out rice to mouth of labor and non-food habits of the parasite. The imperial clan aristocracy, small lazy by nature, without qualifications, the Qing government do not allow their business or farming, many people develop the idle, idle habits. When the privileges lost, they still do not change bad habits, pampered accustomed to the dude who is still wasteful. Some licentious by nature, Chihepiaodu opium. Some play Cricket fighting, a Bureau of winning or losing is as high as thousands of ounces of silver. There's "just for fun," a lot of money at costly. More is not the salary, the bigger pomp, lavish comparisons, resulting in rest on its laurels, make ends meet, and finally sell their assets to rely on live. This is caused by the palace of the Qing Dynasty just two or three decades after the demise of a large number of rapid decline, the main underlying reasons.
In the Republic of scrimmage situation between warlords, making the warlords Zhanshanweiwang, usurpations. This is also an external reason for the decline of the palace.
Since then, the corruption of the Kuomintang regime and the Japanese invaders during the occupation of economic plunder, has accelerated the deterioration of the palace. Yung Prince House as a residence of the Qianlong changed the Lama Temple, the most telling. In 1939, the Japanese Army invaded Phoebe Lama gold wooden torii is removed after the beam back to Japan. They are Zhigu looting, regardless of repair. On the other hand, makes the hard times of colonial rule, the Lama Temple where monks to eat has become a problem. Monks had to make ends meet small business to maintain, and temples and inability to maintain, but to let it rain soaked wind. So, to the eve of the peaceful liberation of Peking, the Lama Temple is quite a decline.