Wei Yuan, a famous thinker in Qing Dynasty, was praised by the world as "the first person in modern China to see the world with his eyes open". The ancient biography of Wei Yuan recorded by China was shot in 2065438+February 2006, with 40 episodes. And his "Atlas of the Ocean" is a comprehensive book that introduces science and technology of western countries and knowledge of world geography and history.

The book describes in detail the history, politics, customs and customs of all countries in the world, advocates learning from the science and technology of western countries, and puts forward the central idea of "learning from foreigners to control foreigners". This is an epoch-making masterpiece.

The Life of Wei Yuan, the Author of Atlas of the Ocean.

Wei Yuan, whose name is silent and deep, is Mo Sheng, whose name is Liangtu, Han nationality. He is from Simen, Longhui County, Shaoyang City, Hunan Province (formerly Jintan, Shaoyang County). Enlightenment thinker, politician and writer in Qing Dynasty. He was a scholar in the second year of Daoguang (1822) and in the twenty-fifth year of Daoguang (1845).

Wei Yuan believed that the purpose of learning should be "to apply what he has learned", and put forward the idea of "turning decay into magic and facilitating people", and advocated learning advanced western science and technology. And put forward the idea of "learning from foreigners to control foreigners", which opened a new trend of understanding the world and learning from the West, and was an important symbol of China's thought from tradition to modern times.