Positive and negative effects of Yashan naval battle

Positive and negative effects of Yashan naval battle

Yamen naval battle, also known as Yamen Battle, Yamen Battle and Yamen Naval Battle in Song and Yuan Dynasties, was 1279 (in the second year of Xiangxing in Southern Song Dynasty and in the sixteenth year of Yuan Dynasty), a large-scale naval battle of Song and Meng armies in Yamen Mountain, and a rare naval battle in ancient China.

The Battle of Yashan is directly related to the survival of the Southern Song Dynasty, so it is also the decisive battle of the Song and Yuan Dynasties. At the end of the war, the Yuan army was outnumbered, and Song Jun was wiped out. When the Southern Song Dynasty destroyed the country, Lu Xiufu threw himself into the sea behind his little emperor Zhao Min, followed by many loyal ministers, and hundreds of soldiers and civilians jumped into the sea to die. After this campaign, the downfall of Zhao and Song Dynasties also meant the complete extinction of the remnants of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the Mongolian Yuan finally unified all China. China was conquered by the northern nomads for the first time.

positive impact

The establishment of People's Republic of China (PRC) in the Yuan and Song Dynasties promoted the economic and cultural exchanges and frontier development of all ethnic groups in China, initially laid the scale of China's territory, expanded the transportation between China and foreign countries, and provided conditions for the development of science and technology.

The unification of the Yuan Dynasty is of far-reaching significance in the history of China. It ended the political situation of domestic separatism and coexistence of several regimes since the end of the Tang Dynasty (Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, Song Dynasty, Liao Dynasty, Jin Dynasty and Xia Dynasty), and laid a political situation of long-term national reunification for more than 600 years in Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties.

It has promoted the economic and cultural exchanges and frontier development of the people of all ethnic groups in China, and further promoted the consolidation and development of China's unified multi-ethnic country; The unification of the Yuan Dynasty also strengthened the cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries and the development of communication between China and the West. Judging from the historical development of Mongolia, the process of unification is the process of Mongolia's transformation from slave society to feudal society.

negative impact

military affairs

On the issue of national defense, ancient dynasties always paid more attention to fortress defense than coastal defense, and this phenomenon did not change slightly until the Southern Song Dynasty. Due to the situation of "rivers and territorial waters" and the rapid increase of the military power of the hostile regime in the north on the water. After decades of painstaking efforts, the Song Dynasty built a powerful naval force and a relatively complete and effective river and sea defense and defense system.

Before the Battle of Yashan, China's water army grew gradually, with a strong fleet and advanced weapons. China people have shifted their goal from land to sea. After the Battle of Yashan, the Chinese people turned their eyes back to land, which once again weakened the strength of China's navy. According to Mongolian regulations, the troops of Han and South Chinese are only allowed to be stationed in the south of the Yangtze River. Han soldiers are not allowed to ride horses and shoot arrows at ordinary times, and their weapons are also wooden. Iron weapons are issued only in wartime.

economy

The Mongols drove the Han people away from the land handed down from generation to generation, leaving the land barren and long grass for them to graze, making a large number of farmers lose their land and become serfs, and agriculture suffered an unprecedented blow; After the besieged city, Mongols wantonly slaughtered and looted the city, which led to the slaughter of a large number of businessmen and some craftsmen in the city, and the prosperous commercial civilization in Song Dynasty gradually declined, while wanton looting destroyed China's excellent cultural classics and well-made artworks.

Royal believer

At present, many villages in Siyi, Guangdong Province are still inhabited by the surviving descendants of the Thai School and the Wang Wei School who went south with the imperial court in the Song Dynasty, such as pumice Zhao in Doushan Town, Taishan, Xialu Zhao in Xinhui Town, Sanjiang Zhao and Kunshan Zhao in Doumen.