Many aspects of modern life are inseparable from machine technology. From the strangeness of computers and mobile phones to now, these have become our daily life, and our lives are inseparable from technology. Nowadays, people have great work pressure, long working hours and short working hours, and have no energy to clean the house, so sweeping robots have replaced our labor force. In the Qing dynasty, many people in our country went to the west to learn their high-tech and industrial technology.
But the gap is that westerners have deepened their research on what they have learned from our country, such as gunpowder, so that it will not become their own, or even better than the original. However, after witnessing the superb technology of the West, people in Qing Dynasty turned it into a plaything to please Empress Dowager Cixi, which hindered the development of science and technology in China. The Qing government at that time was not so declining. People in many countries know that Cixi enjoys herself, and those western missionaries try to please Cixi.
They made a robot with their own technology, and then dressed the robot as a westerner, wearing a hat, a suit and a cigar. Then she walked quickly to Cixi, with smoke on her head when she walked. It was particularly funny to watch, but it amused Cixi. This was really high-tech at that time, but everyone just regarded it as a fun tool and didn't want to study the technology behind this robot in the past.
Under such a government, the country will do nothing and will not advance by leaps and bounds. It is also its inevitable fate to be overthrown in the future. It is said that during the Westernization Movement, many avant-garde figures went to the West to study, and Xu was one of them. An interesting thing that happened to him at that time actually revealed the consequences of people's short knowledge, lack of knowledge and being too closed at that time.
Xu visited Germany and saw a robot that could write in the German Wax Museum. He was shocked at that time, and even more dumbfounded after seeing the description of this robot, and naturally he had the psychology of disbelief. Here is how to write the questions or doubts you want to ask in one hand of this robot, and the answers will appear in the other hand. He gave it a dubious try and asked himself when he could go back to China. The robot replied, "Winter".
It means you can go back this winter. At that time, Xu simply thought it was nonsense and nonsense. But I didn't expect that he really went back to China this winter because of something urgent. Later, looking back on this incident, I really didn't feel wonderful, but I felt terrible and weird. It's like witchcraft written in ancient books. China people believe in ghosts and gods, so they think it must be "western witchcraft". It can be seen that if a country wants to make progress, science and technology really have great power.