The history of China in the traditional sense stopped when the Song Dynasty perished. Why do you say that?

"Under the Battle of Yashan, no ruling group in China has the ability and willingness to take over Chinese civilization and carry it forward, so China Zhengshuo was broken." Over the cliff, there is no China ".

The massacre of the Mongolian army killed 80% of the Han people in the north, and the elite was exhausted. The Ming Dynasty only cheated the corpse, but unfortunately the spirit of the Han people was gone.

The Song Dynasty was not only the most developed dynasty in traditional culture, economy and science and technology in China, but also the era when capitalism in China began to sprout. At that time, China accounted for more than half of the world's GDP. At that time, the economic strength, science and technology and civilization of the Song Dynasty were the first in the world. For China, the Song Dynasty was the Renaissance. China culture at this time is an active and open culture. The Han Dynasty was strong, the Tang Dynasty was strong and the Song Dynasty was prosperous. China culture reached its peak in the Song Dynasty. Song is the dynasty closest to modern management in China history, and the peak of China culture faded with the demise of Song. Later, foreign invasions in the Yuan Dynasty and the Manchu Dynasty alternately brought great disasters and deep killings to the people of China. These are two dynasties that brutally conquered civilization. The Ming Dynasty in the middle is also famous for its conservative arrogance, ecstasy and decadence (for example, the Forbidden City, for example, Ming Taizu killed the founding hero, the ten clans in Fang Xiaoru, Ming Taizu, and Ming Sizong smashed Yuan Chonghuan, which was just surrounded by the capital).

So in the eyes of the Japanese, China is no longer the source of Chinese civilization since the Song Dynasty. Many foreign historians also regard the fall of the Song Dynasty as the fall of China in the classical sense, that is, there is no China after the cliff.

After the Song Dynasty, especially the Song and Ming Dynasties fell into Meng Yuan's hands and the late Jin Dynasty, after many foreign invasions and bloody killings, the masculine and enterprising national backbone of Chinese civilization was basically interrupted, the loyal and loyal ethnic groups were almost killed, and the best components of the ethnic groups were basically lost. Those who survive are enslaved people derived from the law of "bad money eliminates good money", so the post-Song society is always full of too many sleek and sophisticated life-saving philosophies. After Zhu Cheng's Neo-Confucianism in the Song and Ming Dynasties, especially after the cultural castration since the Ming Dynasty, the remaining ancient civilization in China basically belongs to a decadent civilization. Although ancient, this is the wisdom of an old man in his twilight years, which has harmed the best ingredients. Although it has some advantages, it is deeply hindered by historical patterns. Song Dynasty is such a dynasty that remembers Hanyuan, and it has an incomprehensible spiritual and cultural heritage with China people today. There was a Song Dynasty, full of too many mysterious and magical fates. Democratic constitutionalism in modern China has always been an unattainable dream under the tide of foreign autocratic violence and ideological rape. The Song Dynasty is almost a microcosm of the fate of the Han Dynasty and the nation.