清王朝的固步自封是造成中华民族文明落后的重要原因之一,走向现代化成为实现中华民族复兴的必然选择。但早期现代化的启动对于一个曾经将封建文明发展到极盛的国度来说却是艰难的。林则徐、魏源作为中国现代化思想萌芽的“播种者和培育者”,认识到了封建文明与资本主义文明的“落差”,提出了“师夷长技以制夷”的现代化思想, 从而也开始了中国现代化的起步。 The repose of the Qing dynasty is one of the important reasons for the backwardness of the Chinese nation. To become a modern country has become an inevitable choice for the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. However, the start of early modernization was a difficult one for a country that once developed the feudal civilization to an extremum. Lin Zexu and Wei Yuan, as the “planters and cultivators” who sprouted the thought of China’s modernization, realized the “gap” between feudal civilization and capitalist civilization, and put forward the modern thought of " The beginning of modernization.