The First-Sino-Japanese War From The Reflection And Enlightenment Of National Character Perspective

The First-Sino-Japanese War is an important historical event of the modern history of China, had a profound influence on the development of modern history of China in the late. Although the First-Sino-Japanese War had already passed more than 120 years, the research of the First-Sino-Japanese War is never really stopped. Because people want to extract experience and draw a lesson from the research of the First-Sino-Japanese War. They want to take history as a mirror and look forward into the future.If a nation doesn't rethink profoundly from the failure, it will decline inevitably. Because society is developing and times is evolving, the reflection and revelation of the First-Sino-Japanese War should bring forth the new through the old as times goes on. People must integrate theory with practice for a great realistic significance. The First-Sino-Japanese War is a piece of humiliating history of Chinese nation, as numerous heroes died for the sake of their country, a lot of problems are completely unmasked at the same time. All the problems are worth to rethink for us. This article summarizes reflections of the predecessors about system, army, economy and weapon and so on. But the reflection of humanistic angle is insufficient. So this article tries to rethink the failure of the First-Sino-Japanese War from humanistic angle about national character, we should gain enlightenment from reflection. And achieve its aim of guiding to the future. The First-Sino-Japanese War happened in a special historical period. For the Qing dynasty, in the face of challenges and pressures about domestic and overseas is unprecedented. We can't request the Qing dynasty which system is backward with old weapons and financial stress under domestic strife and foreign aggression to win the war. Without the rigid index, we can still find some problems that exist Chinese national personality indistinctly. Although the liking civil war, lack of trust, selfishness, taking things as they are and self-conceit are not the entire ration's generalities, appearing in the special event which was called the First-Sino-Japanese War must cause our concerns.First, this article starts with the reasons about the failure of the First-Sino-Japanese War, concluded the reasons about failure from all the phenomena. Second, this article reflects from the deficiencies of the national character, to prove the great influence about the national character to the First-Sino-Japanese War. Finally, this article gets enlightenment from the conclusions about the reflection.This article gets enlightenment and reflections from the fundamental research about the First-Sino-Japanese War, getting the conclusions from masterly generalization and summation. We wish the descendants to learn a lesson to avoid the same mistakes, avoiding detours in the course of history.