Why didn't we have the Enlightenment, Renaissance, Reformation, Industrial Revolution and Science in ancient times?

1. First of all, China's ancient science and technology has been ahead of the world for a long time (it has gradually fallen behind since the end of the Ming Dynasty). Without China's four great inventions, the development of the world would be delayed for a long time, so it is nonsense to have no science.

2. Ancient China was a typical secular civilization. Although all religions have wide followers, Confucian realism has always been the mainstream and civilization has never been cut off. The western Renaissance, the Reformation and the Enlightenment all rebelled against theocracy and the church, which China didn't need at all.

3. If it is simply ideological emancipation, there were enlightenment thoughts in the Spring and Autumn Period, the Warring States Period, the Song Dynasty and the late Ming Dynasty, but they were all confined to the upper class.

4. China is an agricultural civilization with a strong secular regime. The development of autocratic centralization has hampered social vitality, and a large amount of capital and manpower cannot be invested in industry and commerce. In addition, there was no industrial revolution because of the closed door.