在人类社会发展史上,尽管中华文明曾处于领先地位,但由于自然经济的惰性、宗法社会的钳制、专制政治的高压,中国几千年来只有改朝换代的王朝革命,而没有出现经济升级、政治变革、观念更新的社会革命。鸦片战争后在西方商品经济、自由观念、民主政治的猛烈冲击下,中国传统社会才趋于解体,中国才实现“革命”的转换,从循环的王朝革命走向真正的社会革命。 In the history of the development of human society, despite the leading position of Chinese civilization, due to the inertia of the natural economy, the clampdown on the patriarchal society and the high pressure of autocratic politics, China has had only the dynastic revolution of dynastic reform for thousands of years without economic upgrading and political change , The concept of a new social revolution. After the Opium War, under the violent impact of the western commodity economy, the concept of freedom and democracy, the traditional Chinese society tended to disintegrate. Only then did China achieve the conversion of “revolution” and move from a cycle of dynastic revolution to a real social revolution.