Try to describe the crisis of China's rural economy after the Opium War?

Since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period established a combination of small agriculture and cottage industry natural economy, to the Qing Dynasty also continued for more than two thousand

years, and in the country's entire economic sector occupies the absolute dominance.

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After the Opium War, China's traditional agriculture saw a new development trend along with changes in social conditions. Its specific performance for the traditional agricultural

industrial production methods due to the impact of various social factors, showing a decline in the situation: on the other hand, for the invasion of foreign capital under the impact

strike, and gradually embarked on the road of semi-colonization.

Frequent domestic and foreign wars after 1840 not only drained the national treasury, but also drastically reduced the area of cultivated land in the provinces, slowing down the development of the small-farming economy that depended on a large amount of

land, and the long-term backwardness of farming technology accelerated its decline.

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After the First Opium War, the natural economy had initially put up a stubborn resistance to the commodity invasion of foreign capitalism, but it was short-lived and the results were

poor.

After the Second Opium War and the failure of the Taiping Revolution, the expansion of the rights and interests of various countries and the intensification of aggressive activities, the old feudal economy

was unable to resist the powerful emerging capitalism, and began a general disintegration of the process.