Why did Chinese culture decline?

In ancient societies, Chinese culture was once at the forefront of the world for a long time. However, with the gradual decline of feudal rule in China and the great rush of modern industrial civilization in the West, Chinese culture also experienced a process of decline.

(1) ①Politically: the bourgeois revolution in Europe. Capitalism began to replace feudalism

(2) Economically: the capitalist economy emerged and developed, resulting in the Industrial Revolution, which began to impact the feudal natural economy.

③Ideologically: following the Renaissance produced the Enlightenment, people's mindsets became more open, shaking the idea of feudal rule, impacting feudal rule, people's national and democratic consciousness increased.

4 In culture: modern natural science flourished, laying the foundation of modern natural science.

⑤With the opening of new routes, the Industrial Revolution, and the colonial plundering of Western countries, the relative isolation of continents was broken, and the world became an increasingly interactive and closely linked whole.

(2) ①The rulers of the Qing Dynasty tried their best to brutally suppress progressive ideas. China's intellectual circles "all horses are mute", dead.

② China's traditional science and technology into the summary of the period, the level of modern science and technology lagging behind, increasingly behind the world trend;

3 ③ The rulers of the Qing dynasty feudal backwardness thick consciousness. The Qing rulers had a strong sense of feudal backwardness and a weak sense of nationalism and democracy.

④ The East Asian cultural circle centered on China gradually disappeared.

5. A large number of Western studies were introduced into China, and the phenomenon of the gradual spread of Western studies to the East continued to develop, impacting on traditional Chinese thought and culture.

(3) ① The decline of the state deprived culture of the political and economic conditions for development and accelerated the decline of culture. The decline of the state is a decisive factor in the decline of culture.

② Cultural decline is an important manifestation of national decline, reflecting the decline of the country. Not conducive to national development.