自强”思潮是伴随着“向西方学习”的思想而形成的自强自立、振兴中国的新思潮。它萌芽于19世纪40年代地主阶级经世派林则徐和魏源提出的“师夷之长技以制夷”的思想。经过太平天国农民阶级领袖和洋务派的发展,以19世纪七八十年代资产阶级早期维新派提出的“变法自强”、“振兴”中国为标志而最终形成 Self-improvement “trend of thought is a new trend of thinking that developed along with the thought of” learning from the West “to rejuvenate itself and rejuvenate China .It sprouted in the 1940s by Lin Zexu and Wei Yuan, After the development of the peasant-class leaders and the Westernization School in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, they finally emerged as the symbol of ”reform by reform, self-improvement“ and ”rejuvenation" put forward by the early bourgeois reformists in the seventies and eighties of the 18th century